Destructiveness rises with both damage salience and coordination

Evidence

This way of setting up analyses of collective violence emphasizes its connections with nonviolent political processes. Many violent incidents, for example, begin with nonviolent making of claims: initially orderly demonstrators scuffle with police sent to contain them, someone in a crowd that is stolidly blocking a tax collector throws a rock, or perhaps queuing petitioners turn on a late arrival who tries to jump the queue. How much coordination occurs among violent actors and how salient damage is to their interactions with others help pinpoint and explain the degree of destruction resulting from those interactions. Broadly speaking, destructiveness rises with both salience and coordination. Where the two both reach high levels, widespread destruction occurs. Gujarat’s 2002 massacre of Muslim villagers combined high salience and coordination: organized Hindu hit squads went out prepared to kill and burn. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 726

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that violence emerges out of nonviolent claim-making is exactly the connective point the reader needs: institutional absorption (constitutional rights regimes) may simply reroute claims from nonviolent to violent repertoires rather than defuse them. — connects to: Violence is mapped by damage salience and actor coordination — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 724; Cornered destructiveness stops distinguishing self-destruction from outward violence — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 118; Varied modern harms share a root trend of dissociation — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 46 (+12 more)
• QUESTION: If destructiveness rises with coordination, and states monopolize coordinated violence, does Tilly’s framework predict dominant-group ‘rights defense’ violence will be systematically more destructive than subordinate-group politicization — an asymmetry Tilly does not himself test?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 726

Broader Connections

• Violence is mapped by damage salience and actor coordination #corroborates (0.95) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 724
• Low-coordination scattered violence can cause more damage than organized violence #contradicts (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 733
• Progress-driven benevolence can enable destruction only when fixed on a distant target #qualifies (0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 635
• Cornered destructiveness stops distinguishing self-destruction from outward violence #qualifies (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 118
• The human organism’s default preferences produce self-damage #qualifies (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2332
• Blocked escape into role-change drives rootless individuals toward violent immersion in destructive forces #qualifies (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 786
• Organized harm is enabled by deliberately diffuse chains of authority #expands (0.74)
• Environmental destruction stems from structural imbalance, not individual villainy #qualifies (0.74) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 617
• Routinizing lethal tasks shifts attention from morality to operational proficiency #expands (0.73) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2029
• Reductive mechanism’s emotional distance normalises modern warfare and machine-economy harms #qualifies (0.73) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 448
• The unconscious itself is exposed to irreversible destruction #qualifies (0.73) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1418
• Varied modern harms share a root trend of dissociation #expands (0.72) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 46
• Substance’s actuosity is simultaneously creative and destructive power #qualifies (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1102
• Diffuse, circuitous harm is harder for perpetrators to control than direct harm #qualifies (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 477
• Life’s destructive elements are positive fulfillments within the whole #qualifies (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 983