Wilk w instytucjonalnej skórze: przemoc, język i struktury polityczne
Wolf in Institutional Clothing: Violence, Language, and Political Structures

Summary/Abstract: The text begins with the analysis of becoming-animal, a process defined by Deleuze andGuattari in A Thousand Plateaus. The authors challenge the relation that Deleuze andGuattari establish between animality – defined as violence that frees bodies’ energeticpotential – and politics as that which tames bodies and reduces energies. The authorspropose a twofold critique of this opposition. First, they elaborate on Elaine Scarry’sresearch on the metaphorization of war suffering to demonstrate the consequencesof violence aestheticization toward which Deleuze and Guattari incline. Second,following Silvia Federici, Frantz Fanon, Carl Schmitt, or Charles Tilly, the authors studythe continuity between violence and institutional processes that defines modernity.Referencing Aristotle’s Politics, they propose to understand this continuity in terms ofbecoming-political-animal.

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