Confinement of sanctioned violence to places was meant to circumscribe it

Evidence

The question “What is a place?” becomes a matter of life or death. Perhaps the time has come to remember that by geographically confining the licit exercise of violence, the fundamental legal aim was to circumscribe it. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 252

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Third Republic colonization rested on state-sanctioned violence and legal subordination; Subtler punishment masked sovereign power rather than making it more humane; Revenge requires crime and punishment be separated in time — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 900 (+8 more)

Related

• Third Republic colonization rested on state-sanctioned violence and legal subordination (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Subtler punishment masked sovereign power rather than making it more humane #expands (0.60)
• Revenge requires crime and punishment be separated in time #complicates (0.30) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 900