
Italian: 
Sulle prime, noteremo come ci sono tre forme di violenza.
La forma principale è quella dell'aggressione, dell'oppressione, dello stupro, della distruzione,
una violenza unilaterale, delle più potenti.
La seconda è quella della violenza storica, critica,
la violenza del negativo e la trasgressione di rivolte e rivoluzioni.

English: 
We will speak about the violence of the image, 
 and the violence done to the image.
At first, we well point that there are 3 forms of violence.
The primary form is that of aggression, of oppression, of rape and spoiling:
the unilateral violence of the most powerful.
The second is that of historical, critical violence.
The violence of the negative and the transgression of revolts and reversion.

Italian: 
Entrambe sono forme di violenza determinate
effetti che sono legati a cause specifiche e a qualsivogli forma di trascendenza,
sia essa quella del potere, della storia o del mito.

English: 
Both are determinated forms of violence,
effects that are related to specific causes and to whatever form of transcendence
be that of power, of  history or of myth.
Now we have to deal with the violence of the third type,
a very different one, more radical and subtle
the violence of iterance, of consuses and control
of hyperregulation and irregulation together
the violence of the virtual, a metaviolence, in some ways.
A violence of forced consensus and induction 
which highlights the plastic surgery of the social.

English: 
The violence of transparence, which tends to eradicate, by the way of profilaxis
(of physical and mental regulation)
the very roots of evil, of negativity and singularity
(including the ultimate form of singularity,
which is death itself).
Violence of a general extradition of conflict, of death, 
violence which paradoxically puts and end to violence itself,
and which therefore cannot be balanced except with radical denegation,
with pure abreaction to the whole state of 
 things, a pure violence without object anymore,
without determination.
This is the typical violence of media, of images, of the spectacular,

English: 
connected to a total visibility, a total elimination of secrecy.
At this point, we should not speak of violence anymore
but rather of violence in a way that it 
 does not work frontally nor mechanically, 
but by contiguity, contamination and long chain reactions,

English: 
breaking our secret immunities, and operating not just 
 by a negative effect (like classical violence)
but on the contrary by an excess of the positive, 
 just as a cancer cell proliferates by metastasis.
That is a point in the controversy about the violence on 
 the screens and the impact of images on people’s mind.
The fact is, that the medium itself has a neutralizing power,
counterbalancing the direct effect of the violence of the imagination.
The violence of the 3rd type annihilates violence of the 1st and 2nd type
The violence of the 3rd type annihilates violence of the 1st and 2nd type
but at the price of a more violent intrusion 
 in the deep cells of our mental world.

English: 
The same as for antibiotics, which eradicate the agent of 
 disease by reducing the general level of vitality.
When the medium becomes the message (McLuhan),
then violence as a medium becomes its whole message, and messenger of itself.
So the violence of the message cannot be compared 
 with the violence of the medium as such,
with the violence emanating from the confusion between medium and message.
It's the same with viruses. The virus itself is 
 information, but of a very special kind:
it is medium and message, agent and action at the same time. 
That is the very origin of its violence, of its uncontrollable proliferation.

English: 
In fact, in all actual biological social or mental processes, violence has substituted violence.
While in other forms of violence there was 
 an historical and individual subject of violence,
now there’s no subject, no personal agent of violence 
 and then no possibility to confront it efficiently.
The classical violence was still hunted by the specter 
 of the evil, it was still visible.
The violence of the third type is of the order of 
 transparency and its logic is the transparency of the evil.

English: 
The image and more generally the sphere of information is violence because what happens 
 there is a murder of the real, the vanishing point of reality.
