Violence arises whenever thought tries to totalize the chaos-world

Evidence

Meanwhile, contemporary violence is one of the logicsorganic—of the turbulence of the chaos-monde. This violence is what instinctively opposes any thought intending to make this chaos rnonolithic, grasping it to control it. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 799

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the chaos-monde as a turbulence that resists monolithic control, key context for reading strategic essentialism against totalizing thought.
• XREF: connects to: Objectifying thought commits the mental violence that later becomes physical violence — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 153; Violence includes psychic and representational forms beyond physical force — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1819; Ideological logic coerces the mind as violently as outside power does — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1065

Broader Connections

• Objectifying thought commits the mental violence that later becomes physical violence #corroborates (0.95) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 153
• Ideological logic coerces the mind as violently as outside power does #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1065
• Violence includes psychic and representational forms beyond physical force #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1819