"Resistance is inscribed in the very fact that power is exerted over bodies, for if power were never anything but repressive, if it never existed except in the form of a prohibition, then why would one obey it?”

Michel Foucault, "The Risks of Security" 1978

“There is no power without potential refusal or revolt. But this revolt is not simply a negation; it is the body itself, in its materiality and in its pain, which opposes power."

Michel Foucault, "The Risks of Security" 1978

“Where there is power, there is resistance, and yet, or rather consequently, this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power."

Michel Foucault, "The History of Sexuality, vol. 1" (1976)

“The body is directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs.”

Michel Foucault, "Discipline & Punish" (1975)

“The body has to be given over to the public sphere, exposed to its dangers, for politics to take place.”

Judith Butler, "Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?" (2009)

Sunset at Chinati (taken from outside the artillery sheds), Marfa, Texas 20250207

They weren't wild about my "Atlas Shrugged" phase, but I grew out of it, as most teenaged boys do. Looking at you, Elon...