Violence can both close down and open up possibility, even at once.

Evidence

Violence can thus open up, or close down. And often it does both, even simultaneously. (So there are both immediate effects, which I am characterizing as debilitating or enervating for its objects, and more extended effects that can spin in either debilitating or renewing directions. By contrast, those who act violently, disruptively, may thus be or become more or less immediately excited. They may be exiled as a consequence, in any number of explicit or extended metaphorical ways.) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1818

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Violence both closes down existing ways of being and can open new possibilities; Violence disrupts and can both debilitate and renew its targets — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1818; Counter-violence can prise open restrictive structures and create new possibilities (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Violence both closes down existing ways of being and can open new possibilities #corroborates (0.96)
• Violence disrupts and can both debilitate and renew its targets #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1818
• Counter-violence can prise open restrictive structures and create new possibilities #expands (0.85)
• Violence is force that marks and transforms its object #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1817