Activity

Taking Weber’s definition of the state as ‘the exercise of a monopoly of legitimate violence over a given territory’

the black-and-white film about the French suburban intifada, portraying senseless juvenile violence, police brutality and social exclusion in the Paris suburbs

Within the diegetic space of Sherlock Holmes stories

[...] to put it in the Nietzschean terms which are appropriate here, the ultimate difference between radical-emancipatory politics and such outbursts of impotent violence is that an authentic political gesture is active, it imposes, enforces a vision, while outbursts of impotent violence are fundam…