The Banana Peel Project

What forms of subjecthood and subjectivity are available to us?
The question should not be, what is the “modern” subject or what is “modern” subjectivity, but rather what forms of subjecthood and subjectivity—what ways of being and of being with—are made possible in particular practices and sets of practices?  We should be looking for multiple, contingent, […]

wait a minute here.
isn’t revolution supposed to happen from the “bottom,” the “roots,” the “people”?
i mean, you’d never call a military coup a “revolution.”  that’s why you call it a “coup.”
you know, the folks who live farthest away from the walls, out in the fields, the first to be burned when the invaders came.
they’re always […]

Where there is power, there is resistance.  Is this a death sentence for resistance, an eternal guarantee for power, or something else entirely?
Attacks on the idea that power and resistance always go together seem to have come from all sides.  There are those who have attacked the histories that claim to show the ability of […]