http://www.constantcritic.com/ray_mcdaniel/100-notes-on-violence/ Timely poetry reviews Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.constantcritic.com/ray_mcdaniel/100-notes-on-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-12382 Virginia Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:30:59 +0000 http://www.constantcritic.com/?p=454#comment-12382 “To speak of a culture of violence is to define violence as ambient, when its very essence is its particularity”: this is a brilliant articulation of what can be said about the “nature” of violence, however spectral a term. It is the specificity of violence, whether with regard to the agent’s vitriol or target, whether domestic or global, that characterizes all violence and, discomfitingly, renders it analogous to the opposite action, care. “To speak of a culture of violence is to define violence as ambient, when its very essence is its particularity”: this is a brilliant articulation of what can be said about the “nature” of violence, however spectral a term. It is the specificity of violence, whether with regard to the agent’s vitriol or target, whether domestic or global, that characterizes all violence and, discomfitingly, renders it analogous to the opposite action, care.

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