“Negotiating with Violence: From the Economy of Violence to the Violence of Economics, Following Deconstruction“

Between war and hospitality, Europe is an economic compensation chamber, whose construction is based on the free circulation of goods, people, services, and capitals (Treaty of Rome), but not on the generalization of tax systems, or labor, social and individual rights. The collapse of the communist and socialist democratic options, nowadays accomplished, lends a conflict between a national-regressive and a financial-liberal ideology, threatening the political existence of Europe, in a scenario not dissimilar to the decade preceding WW2. Among the different violences of war, hospitality, and economic arrangements, Europe’s negotiating capacity and promise of peace and democracy are at risk.

In order to think about this situation, the philosophy of deconstruction proves a strong option: in that it states that there is no end to violence, but only an infinite and ever-risky negotiation among singular, historical positions: an “economy of violence”; and since it promotes the idea of Europe and the thought of democracy in order to save the possibility of a best possible negotiation. The present project aims to formalize and apply the economic conceptuality of the philosophy of deconstruction by apprehending it through the thus entangled notion of violence and focusing on the motif of money.