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"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

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β€œThere 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

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β€œWhere 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)

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β€œThe 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)

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β€œThe 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)

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

01.03.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

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