Criminals in Glory

English Editorial (translated by Silvia Benso)

Abstract

Violence could be a way of being God. There would be a nexus between glory and violence. The violent act (even as an act of speech or thought) could be some sort of an elevation, of the interruption of total mediation so that something (someone) may be elevated in its (his or her) splendid isolation: criminals in glory.

Violence would look at phenomena against the light, making them stand out from their (ontological even more than social) link with their neighbors, from the knot of relations, from their very connection with space and time thereby protesting their absolute character.

Violence would therefore be one of the few places available to us today for experiencing the absolute. Moreover, it would be one of the most accessible places.

Yet there is a meek way of isolating (or elevating) phenomena as well as there is a violent one. The question is how, where, even through which concrete steps this desire for glory can turn (that is, confirm and overcome itself) into a desire for the good rather than for the bad.