INI201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Colin Powell, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange
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Systemic invisible (to many), pervasive, often necessary condition for the privileged subjective experience of peac. Includes the violence of colonialism, environmental devastation (by, for example, the petroleum industry), and civilized . Symbolic the violence that language does to the truth, to the world as it is, to the real. The catch is that subjective and objective violence cannot be perceived from the same standpoint: subjective violence is perturbation of the normal" peaceful state of things. However, objective violence is precisely the violence inherent to this standard against which we perceive something as subjectively violent. Systemic violence is thus something like the notor invisible, but it has to be taken into account if one is to make sense of what otherwise seem to be irrational" explosions o. Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that might account for up to 85% of the universe"s mass.
