Topology of violence

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There are things that do not disappear, among them violence. The notion of "violence aversion" does not characterize modernity. Violence is more protean than one might think; it merely changes its form. Today, it retreats into subcutaneous, subcommunicative, capillary, and neuronal spaces, taking on a microphysical form that can be exercised without the negativity of domination or enmity. It shifts from the visible to the invisible, from the brutal to the medial, and from the frontal to the viral. Its modes of operation are not open attacks but rather infections. Han's "Topology of Violence" primarily outlines the transformation of violence from decapitation (the pre-modern society of sovereignty and blood) through deformation (the modern disciplinary society) to depression (the contemporary society of performance and fatigue). Han continues his unsettling analysis of our time, which he began in "The Burnout Society."