ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the way in which both signification and metaphysics operate through the signature of violence to then provide a more nuanced account of the relation between violence and metaphysics. It shows that biopolitics determines the inclusive exclusion of life from its form; that is, it is a power that separates and divides life. Life is a mode of operation that works through the signature of violence; that is, through a relation of inclusive exclusion between a common and a proper element. The deactivation of the signature of violence implies rethinking the relation between potentiality and actuality; the affirmation of potentiality over production; and, finally, the construction of ontology of modality through the notion of man as inoperative. Inoperative violence is a praxis that succeeds in exposing and then rendering inoperative all the differential structures of the common and the proper that lie at the core of the political foundation of the West.
