Martin Scarry's 'Refraction Of Violence'

In Refractions of Violence, Martin Jay asserts that violence has become "a constitutive function of today's world, structuring and sustaining our way of existence and of socio-political and transnational intelligibility"(3). Michael Hardt and Antonio Nergi argue that contemporary warfare and violence have become "a permanent condition", "the primary organizing principle of society" and "the general matrix for all relations of power and techniques of domination" (12-13). In On Violence, political theorist Hannah Arendt states that war is the most severe form of violence. Scarry defines war as "a form of human brutality where the main activity is injuring and the ultimate goal is to out-injure the opponent"
(12).