ABSTRACT

This collection highlights the diverse and complicated ways that violence becomes axiomatic, namely through political rhetoric, epistemological impositions, and colonial legacies. Considering how axiomatic violence emerges from events of rupture as well as slow-moving structural inequalities, authors interrogate both the novelty and mundane quality of the current political moment. Approaching violence as axiomatic expands the conceptual lexicon for discussing how rhetorics, metaphors, and prescriptive assumptions can be inherently violent and become normalised, losing their event-like status. Through the routinisation of the extraordinary, truths become indisputable. Axioms combine neoteric and foundational violence to lend legitimacy to apparently incontestable categories of domination, disenfranchisement, and epistemological governance.

摘要

该系列突出了暴力成为公理化的多样化和复杂方式，即通过政治修辞、认识论强加和殖民遗产。考虑到破裂事件以及缓慢移动的结构性不平等如何产生公理化的暴力，作者质疑当前政治时刻的新颖性和平凡性。将暴力视为公理化的方式扩展了讨论修辞、隐喻和规定性假设如何本质上是暴力的并变得正常化，从而失去其事件状态的概念词汇。通过非凡的常规化，真理变得无可争议。公理将近代暴力和基础暴力结合起来，为显然无可争辩的统治、剥夺公民权和认识论治理等类别提供合法性。