Violence
remains an immanent part of modern society, usually integrated into
the symbolical as much as practical framing of social normality.
Unrestrained violence, on the contrary, can’t be integrated,
because it occurs unexpectedly and seemingly without any sense. Thus
it demonstrates the vulnerability of social order and refutes the
impression its normality was given without presupposition.
Unrestrained violence is radically communicating the instability of a
social framing of normality, therefore threatening the
destabilization of society on the whole. Events of unrestrained
violence—such as gun rampages or terrorist attacks—are a great
challenge to social cohesion. Unrestrained
violence massively transgresses the limitations of 'regular', to a
certain extent expectable, and therefore normalized violence, seeing
as it typically emerges from the centre of society. Consequently, it
requires remarkable efforts concerning its social normalisation, the
production of a coherent narration due to these events and their
reintegration into the social realm.
If successful, society a consequence,
social individuals perceive its absence as the very normality of
their lifeworlds. However, although the ability for violence might
dwell inside the individuals, violence also remains conspicuously
omnipresent as cultural momentum and ubiquitously experienceable in
the media. Yet forms of unrestrained violence do not only transgress
the limits of a normalized (representation) of violence, but also
invalidate them. They undermine the idea of 'normal' violence as to
some extent restrained. These
forms of violence eliminate all connections to the social realm,
calling the possibility of societalization into question.
The
conference investigates different phenomena of unrestrained violence,
focusing on the increasing regularity of such phenomena as much as on
the enhanced awareness about them in a time when modern societies try
to define their identity in categories of diversity, heterogeneity
and hybridity. In
this context, phenomena of unrestrained violence either appear as
acts of social perversion or point to the not-yet-realized potential
of a new, radical deviance. At
the same time, unrestrained violence requires great efforts in terms
of cultural and social cohesion by revealing the normative and
institutional limitations of societalization.
Violence remains an immanent part of modern society, usually integrated into the symbolical as much as practical framing of social normality. Unrestrained violence, on the contrary, can’t be integrated, because it occurs unexpectedly and seemingly without any sense. Thus it demonstrates the vulnerability of social order and refutes the impression its normality was given without presupposition. Unrestrained violence is radically communicating the instability of a social framing of normality, therefore threatening the destabilization of society on the whole. Events of unrestrained violence—such as gun rampages or terrorist attacks—are a great challenge to social cohesion. Unrestrained violence massively transgresses the limitations of 'regular', to a certain extent expectable, and therefore normalized violence, seeing as it typically emerges from the centre of society. Consequently, it requires remarkable efforts concerning its social normalisation, the production of a coherent narration due to these events and their reintegration into the social realm.
If successful, society a consequence, social individuals perceive its absence as the very normality of their lifeworlds. However, although the ability for violence might dwell inside the individuals, violence also remains conspicuously omnipresent as cultural momentum and ubiquitously experienceable in the media. Yet forms of unrestrained violence do not only transgress the limits of a normalized (representation) of violence, but also invalidate them. They undermine the idea of 'normal' violence as to some extent restrained. These forms of violence eliminate all connections to the social realm, calling the possibility of societalization into question.
The conference investigates different phenomena of unrestrained violence, focusing on the increasing regularity of such phenomena as much as on the enhanced awareness about them in a time when modern societies try to define their identity in categories of diversity, heterogeneity and hybridity. In this context, phenomena of unrestrained violence either appear as acts of social perversion or point to the not-yet-realized potential of a new, radical deviance. At the same time, unrestrained violence requires great efforts in terms of cultural and social cohesion by revealing the normative and institutional limitations of societalization.
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