In a keynote address at the Washington University’s “Cultural Violence “conference, 1997, theorist Elizabeth Grosz stated:
Violence may be constitutive of thought and knowledge, it may structure these very possibilities, therefore violence could be considered both a de-structive and a con-structive force, as a negativity and as a positivity.”
The art of violence not only surrounds us but is within us, and inherent in our human existence, a normal and natural expression of our humanity.
Injury is a component of violence and does not exist beyond the physical. We as humans use our bodies and our intellect to create and solve problems. The notion of the perpetuity of peace and harmony is fraught. Intervention in the continuum is the basis of experience, the texture that allows life to realize. With no absolute answers and a continuing quest for them a paradoxical surfactant exists, simultaneously reflecting both a continuum and the rupture.

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