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the violences
noun
Extreme force.
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The violence and violent comedy of his novels strike us, in the main, as merely descriptive, the way the violences of geology are.
I have previously written on the violences against women that only queer men can produce: the assumed access to women's bodies, the slut shaming, and the patriarchal dichotomy of "top" and "bottom".
Perednik's interrogation of the violences of Argentina's "dirty war" is ingenious in its darkly whimsical freneticism, and it's not difficult to see the relevance of such work to today's terror-manic America.
The term may indeed be justly descriptive of the limited possibilities for active political dissent that typify such societies, the restrictions that liberal government (in its fullest sense, involving its synergetic relationship with capitalism) places on adversarial politics, but it is surely very complacent concerning the violences of this 'reasonable' power system.
Feminist critics were vocal in the criticisms of psychiatry, and especially of psychoanalysis, from the 1960s, underscoring gender biases and the violences these were seen to enable (e.g. Friedan, 1963; Chesler, 1972; Millett, 1970; also, in the 1980s, Masson, 1985 , 1989.
We share Mitchell's unease with 'the prophetic and apocalyptic tone' of much social and political theory but have no problem with such theory's recognition of the persistence, in varied forms, of struggle in the management of human affairs and the violences that are enacted under the banner of liberal democracy.
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The violence.
What about the violence?
That amplifies the violence.
Then the violence began.
So did the violence.
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