Implosive violence of assembled masses differs fundamentally from explosive violence

Evidence

But if the supply of objects brings along with it the stockpiling of men, the latent violence in the supply of objects brings with it the inverse violence of men. … Every stock is violent, and there is a specific violence in any mass of men also, because of the fact that it implodes - a violence proper to its gravitation, to its densification around its own locus of inertia. The masses are a locus of inertia and through that a locus of a completely new, inexplicable violence different from explosive violence. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 230

Categorization

• XREF: The contrast between explosive and implosive violence is the theoretical hinge Baudrillard will later call ‘the implosion of meaning’; also resonates with Canetti’s Crowds and Power. — connects to: Implosion, not violent destruction, is the mode of resistance proper to networked societies — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 240; Individual and collective violence operate through separate psychological mechanisms — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 382; Individual-level theories cannot explain synchronized mass scapegoating movements (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Individual and collective violence operate through separate psychological mechanisms #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 382
• Individual-level theories cannot explain synchronized mass scapegoating movements #expands (0.75)
• Group isolation produces collective misperception and redirected violence against outsiders #expands (0.75)