Violence leaves its object forcibly transformed, not merely injured physically.

Evidence

Violence invariably involves force, but it is more than just force. Violence is force the effect of which is to leave a debilitating mark on its “object.” Violence leaves the objects on which it is acted enervatingly transformed, at least in the immediate wake, rent from the state it was in previously and made different by the marking of the force on it. (Daniel Ross has called this a “rupture,” a rupturing.) This “acting on” need not be only from points external but could be an entity, a being or organism, acting on itself, unraveling its auto-immunity from inside itself, literally an unraveling. The thing, the body, the being on which violence has effect is forcibly changed, thrown into a new state, whether physically or experientially, psychically or epistemologically (depending on the nature of the being). — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1817

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines violence as force that leaves a transformative mark (a ‘rupture’) rather than mere physical force.
• XREF: connects to: Violence is force that marks and transforms its object — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1817; The Fall’s aggression was formal disassembly of rock, not mere force — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1161

Broader Connections

• Violence is force that marks and transforms its object #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1817