In this opening essay of our recent issue on Violence, Brad Evans argues that "violence of disappearance" is the most extreme and visible form state sovereignty and power takes in contemporary times. This kind of violence often translates into the literal removal and destruction of actual human bodies, irrespective of age and gender, but always only those belonging to particular races, ethnicities or ideologies, by means of genocide, abductions, forced migrations and (un)civi

"Philosophical theorizing is made for human beings, and it should fit human beings, and not the other way around."

"My brother, Sashka, ran away from home when he was fifteen. It is not quite right to say he ran away from home; our home deserted us."

"The long-term agendas of various stakeholders of white extremism skew the way that research data is interpreted and engaged."

"The difference between the trust of science adherents and the trust of science deniers is not the form of trust but merely its content."

"Publishing is a nearly limitless act that has the potential to build communities, expand minds, and offer new perspectives."

"What defines the human on which the “we” of this nation was (truly) founded?"

"Black Americans are painfully reminded that racism has worsened since Obama’s presidency, not improved."

"Depressing as it might seem, misanthropy does register a fundamental truth about humankind as it has come to be."

We may think of animals as having moral value. But, because they are property, they don’t have moral value. They are just thing."

"Fanon himself hated violence. But what he hated more was complicity with violence through a refusal to act."

"Han implies that philosophy is not for professional philosophers but for everyone, so that we can better understand our exhausting times."