This essay considers a range of artistic and intellectual responses to the Algerian War of Independence that foregrounded the problem of extreme violence. It homes in on the suggestive nexus between anti-colonial solidarities in the metropole and the obsessive concern of artistic, literary, and philosophical avant-gardes with the thought of the Marquis de Sade. It explores how the returns to and of Sade that punctuated the French intellectual scene over the twentieth century could serve as a prism through which to politicize, represent and challenge the manifestations of extreme state and para-state violence in a colonial setting.

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虐待狂到团结：关于艺术、哲学和阿尔及利亚战争的笔记

这篇文章考虑了对阿尔及利亚独立战争的一系列艺术和知识反应，这些反应突出了极端暴力问题。它着眼于大都市的反殖民团结与艺术、文学和哲学先锋派对萨德侯爵思想的痴迷之间的暗示性联系。它探讨了在 20 世纪点缀法国知识界的萨德的回归和萨德如何可以作为一个棱镜，通过它政治化、代表和挑战殖民环境中极端国家和准国家暴力的表现。