“[F]orce is that which turns both its wielders and its victims into things. That is to say, under the guise of subject-object relations, violence actually works to construct object-object relations between otherwise sentient beings.”— Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty
“[F]orce is that which turns both its wielders and its victims into things. That is to say, under the guise of subject-object relations, violence actually works to construct object-object relations between otherwise sentient beings.”
— Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty