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"Walter Benjamin makes a distinction between two kinds of violence: law-making violence and law-preserving violence (1978:277). The founding violence is the one that institutes and positions law, the preserving violence is the one that maintains, confirms and insures the permanence and enforceability of the law. This suggests a complication for the state: the state must conceal its own founding violence in order to violently preserve its laws. Violence is inbred into the concept, the formation and the dissemination of state practice." 


in "Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty",  
chapter "Erring toward Experience: Violence and Touch" p.64
by Erin Manning