What Institutional Violence Looks Like

What Institutional Violence Looks Like

Florence, April 26, 1478Giuliano de Medici was stabbed nineteen times in the Cathedral this morning during High Mass. Lorenzo escaped, barely, through the sacristy. The signal for the attack was the elevation of the host. They used the consecrated moment. They always...
The Geometry of Violence

The Geometry of Violence

Various, consolidatedI want to say something specific about war, because I have been in enough of them to have a basis for the observation that is not theoretical.The reasons given for wars change. The configuration of the wars does not change as much as the changing...