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Resistance, strategy, and personal technologies
1 Comment Posted 01.14.2009 in Drugs, Power, TechnologyWhere 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 […]
Hypostatization is that trick of the mind which transforms the complex into the simple, the local into the universal, and the temporary into the eternal. What is lost in this translation? Is anything saved?
Addiction, the movement from an instrumental practice to an uncontrollable compulsion.
Refusal, a strategic and localized resistance that has become a principle of […]
A quick moment of panic when self encounters the possibility of not self.
A thought, a brief awareness of the wholeness, completeness, and immediacy of a world in which the self has already created the conditions for its own destruction. A prosthesis becomes not necessary, but naturalized. A hinge between two selves, seen from one side […]
