Violence now derives from the positivity of consensus, not conflict.

Evidence

Violence does not stem from the negativity of clash or conflict alone; it also derives from the positivity of consensus. Now, the totality of capital, which seems to be absorbing everything, represents consensual violence. Struggle no longer occurs between groups, ideologies, or classes, but between individuals; still, this fact is not as important for understanding the crisis of the achievement-subject as Ehrenberg claims. What proves problematic is not individual competition per se, but rather its self-referentiality, which escalates into absolute competition. That is, the achievement-subject competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has deadly results. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 124

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘violence of consensus’ contra Habermas connects to the reader’s Foucault test: disciplinary violence was exogenous, achievement violence is consensual. — connects to: Consensus does violence; invention arises from dissension. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 95

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