Active violence in reality obscures our access to the world’s poetic force

Evidence

The active violence in reality distracts us from knowing it. Our obligation to “grasp” violence, and often fight it, estranges us fi’om such live intensity, as it also freezes the shiver and disrupts prescience. But this force never runs dry because it is its own turbulence. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 802