{"title":"War as a Principle? Plato against Thucydides and Heraclitus","authors":"Pierre Ponchon","doi":"10.22618/tp.pjcv.20215.2.114003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22618/tp.pjcv.20215.2.114003","url":null,"abstract":"This paper intends to confront Plato’s thought on war and enmity in Laws 1 (625c-628e) to those of Thucydides and Heraclitus showing that Clinias’ thesis that the state of perpetual war is the principle of legislation has a deep similarity with some aspects of their political thoughts. Next, I investigate how the refutation by the Athenian Stranger of the place and status of war and conflict at the root of political realism is a key argument in the whole process of the Laws and in the emergence of the platonic meaning of political philosophy.","PeriodicalId":220201,"journal":{"name":"The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121633870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporal Experience and On-Screen Violence: The Digital “Oner” in Action Cinema","authors":"T. Livingstone","doi":"10.22618/tp.pjcv.20204.2.1763001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22618/tp.pjcv.20204.2.1763001","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the nature of temporal experience today by first examining the relationship between screen media and temporal experience, specifically with regards to the digital “oner.” I use the films from the Kingsman franchise to analyse the constituent parts of the “oner” focussing on how these effects and their modular deployment interact with spectatorial attention and the sensation of passing time. My conclusion suggests that the production of continuity within digital “oners” instantiates a form of abstract violence that is a constituent part of temporal experience more broadly.","PeriodicalId":220201,"journal":{"name":"The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122220315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reversing Clausewitz: A History of a Mistake","authors":"Guilel Treiber","doi":"10.22618/tp.pjcv.20226.1.127.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22618/tp.pjcv.20226.1.127.005","url":null,"abstract":"This paper traces the result of the reversal of the Clausewitzian dictum that war is the continuation of politics in post-structuralist political theorizing. I argue that much can be gained by not reversing the dictum (hence, making the reversal a mistake) and retaining the conceptual relation between politics and war Clausewitz espouses. I then show what a neo-Clausewitzian position would contribute to the debate on the relation between war or violence and politics by arguing that, in the case of Clausewitz, it is better to be a Kantian than a Nietzschean.","PeriodicalId":220201,"journal":{"name":"The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115437941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slicing Up Eyeballs: The Criminal Underworlds of Nicolas Winding Refn","authors":"M. B. Wilson","doi":"10.22618/tp.pjcv.20204.2.1763002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22618/tp.pjcv.20204.2.1763002","url":null,"abstract":"From Buñuel and Dali’s Un Chien Andalou to recent works by Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, the cinematic destruction of the eye has become iconic due to its striking effect upon film spectators’ visceral experiences as well as its ability to influence their symbolic or fetishistic desires. By exploiting the natural discomfort and disgust produced by these types of images and then situating them within an aesthetic and psychoanalytic framework, Refn and other filmmakers provide a visual showcase for a unique type of cinematic violence, one which demands that viewers reappraise the value of their own eyes as well as the values which reflect social attitudes towards law enforcement, crime, and justice.","PeriodicalId":220201,"journal":{"name":"The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124005661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sovereign Agents of Mythical and (Pseudo-)Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin and Global Biopolitical Cinema","authors":"Seung-hoon Jeong","doi":"10.22618/tp.pjcv.20204.2.1763005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22618/tp.pjcv.20204.2.1763005","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence,” this paper illuminates the complexity of law and violence in global biopolitical cinema. Benjamin’s key notions (“lawmaking” and “law-preserving,” “mythical” and “divine” violence) are revisited through diverse films such as The Dark Knight series, Dogville, The Act of Killing, and Waltz with Bashir. The paper explores how the sovereign agents of killing here embody ‘pseudo-divine violence,’ posing ethical dilemmas about justice and life’s value. This analysis leads to the quest for ‘true divine violence’ without sovereign power and the sanctity of humanity believed only as potential to retain and relay.","PeriodicalId":220201,"journal":{"name":"The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123004046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"#MeToo, #BalanceTonPorc, the Feminist Rape-Revenge Film in the 2010s and Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge","authors":"K. Ince","doi":"10.22618/tp.pjcv.20226.1.127.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22618/tp.pjcv.20226.1.127.008","url":null,"abstract":"This article brings together essays on revenge by philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Emmanuel Levinas with the rape-revenge film genre through a detailed reading of French director Coralie Fargeat’s first feature film Revenge (2017). It also links the film’s presentation of rape and violence to the #MeToo movement and how it played out in France under the #BalanceTonPorc hashtag and suggests that the leading protagonist of Revenge Jen (Mathilda Lutz) may be considered as an example of the twenty-first century version of horror’s “Final Girl” first theorized by Carol Clover in the 1980s.","PeriodicalId":220201,"journal":{"name":"The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121361691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}