Daemons’ Whisper /\ Violence in the Age of Slavery’s Reproduction

Thinking from the position of racial slavery and its concomitant questions surrounding emancipation, freedom, and sovreignty, how do we think violence beyond “means and ends”? This question emerges as a critical engagement with Benjamin’s brief yet groundbreaking examination of the fundamental question “What is violence?” It’s importance lies in an interrogation of the assumptive logics undergirding the subject of Benjamin’s conception of law and subsequently “divine violence.” By focusing on the antagonisms between the constitution of this subject and Du Bois’ subject in Black Reconstruction, one may find that the problematic of racial slavery not only augments but distends the appearance of divine violence-qua-general strike.