François Cusset est historien des idées, professeur à l'université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre, et l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages remarqués dont à La Découverte, French Theory (2003) et La Décennie (2006).
We could think that violence is being eradicated from our daily lives but, if we look closely, that is certainly not the case. While violence perpetrated by individuals is, in fact, by strong police mechanisms, the economic, social and political violence imposed by neoliberalism persists happily and even tends to melt into the background. In this short essay, François Cusset, interprets these new forces of violence with which we live in spite of ourselves.
This is the first in-depth examination of the unthinkable truth that is hidden behind the obsession with terrorism: today’s violence is both global and subjective, economic and geopolitical, social and visual. This study is inspired by political necessity: if new forms of resistance fail, this pattern of violence will benefit fascists and identitarians.
François Cusset, a historian of ideas, is a professor at the Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre, and the author of numerous important works including, with La Découverte, French Theory (2003) and La Décennie. Le grand cauchemar des années 1980 (The decade. The nightmare of the 1980s) (2006).