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© 2008 Lady Z

No one has an official right to power: yet it is always exerted in a particular direction.  It is difficult to say who holds power, but it is easy to see who lacks it.  The discourse of struggle is not opposed to the unconscious, but to the secretive.  Misunderstandings relate to things that are hidden, repressed, unsaid.  It is more difficult to unearth a secret than the unsconscious.  

  

"It is clear who exploits, who profits, and who governs, but power remains something more diffuse." (Foucault)

  

Marxism was to define the problem in terms of interests (power is held by the ruling class defined by its interests) Deleuze

  

The relationship between desire, power, and interest are more complex that we ordinarily thing.  (Foucault)

  

It is not always those who exercise power who have an interest in its execution.  Nor is it always possible for those with vested interests to exercise power.  The desire for power establishes a relationship between power and interest.

  

Sometimes the masses even  desire that certain people assume power, even at the expense, to the extreme of their death, their sacrifice.  Nevertheless they desire this particular power.

  

It is becoming more and more apparent that in every way we are "governed best where we are governed least."

-Lucy Parsons

Disobedience to authority is one of the most

natural and healthy acts -Hardt & Negri

The involuntary aspiration born in man to make the most of one's self, to be loved and appreciated by one's fellow-beings, to "make the world better for having lived in it," will urge one on the nobler deeds than ever the sordid and selfish incentive of material gain has done.

-Lucy Parons, The Principles of Anarchism

The very development from class society to the spectacular organization of non-life leads the revolutionary project to become visibly what it already was essentially.  -The Situationists

To remain totally rational is to become half a human.  To allow the irrational to overwhelm you is to succomb to religious mania or the disease called hysteria by alienists.  The Great Work consists of yoking the rational and irrational together in a harmony that transcends both. 

-Robert Anton Wilson

Let's break out of the horrible strait-jacket of wisdom and throw ourselves like fruits spiced with pride into the wide, contorted mouth of the wind!  Let us give ourselves utterly to the unknown, not in desperation, but only to replenish the unfathomable wells of the absurd

-F.T. Marinetti