March 11, 2013
"It is in the spirit that power is “productive” that I have sought to ask what homophobia makes possible, what it lubricates, what it enables, what it fosters, what it feeds, what it nurtures, what realities it makes realizable."

— keguro at Gukira. Queer Disposability

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Filed under: homophobia Michel Foucault power 
September 19, 2012
"[T]hey, a group of a few thousand indigenous rebels in the jungle of the south-east of Mexico want to change the world. What is more, most absurd of all, most important, most central to their whole absurd project, they want to change the world without taking power. And on top of that their discourse is full of jokes, of stories, of children, of dancing. How can we take such a rebellion seriously?"

— John Holloway at libcom.org. The concept of power and the Zapatistas

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Filed under: politics stories power 
September 5, 2012
"Apart from resigning into depression, what can a low power group do when the dominant group is unwilling to negotiate a change in the status quo? Basically, there is only the possibility of increasing its relative power sufficiently to compel the other to negotiate. Relative power is increased by either of two means: enhancing one’s own power or decreasing the other’s power."

— Morton Duetsch at Beyond Intractability. Overcoming Oppression with Power

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Filed under: opression power 
June 27, 2012
"One can’t simply say “Yes, I abused my power because I was sexually attracted to my students.” There has to be a pretense of fairness. I remember getting jumped as a kid. Without failure the crew had to invent some sort of justification, a pretense of fairness and morality where there wasn’t one."

— Ta-Neshi Coates at The Atlantic. How Power Explains Itself

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Filed under: power bias 
June 4, 2012
"

This work is not about Ukraine or Russia or even the former Soviet Union, but instead a way to see the modern State as a primitive and sacrificial rite of unnamed Power.


I came to understand that the State operates (and not just an ex-Soviet state) as a parallel and privileged state within a political system, operating under its own rules, sanctions, rewards and values. It can simply and nimbly shift its competitive goals, and take over the reigns of power in any sudden political vacuum, adapting and improvising tactics as needed.

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— Donald Weber review and interview by Jim Casper at Lens Culture. Photo Book Review Interrogations 

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Filed under: photography state power anthropology of power. 
April 16, 2012
"The clear assumption of governments working on such technical means of “crowd control” is that they expect their populations to revolt as a consequence of their policies."

— Manuel Garcia, Jr. in CounterPunch. Looking Beyond the Dazzle of Plutocracy

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Filed under: violence power social democracy 
April 16, 2012
"The capacity to do violence allows the powerful to exercise the privilege of what Gayatri Spivak has called “sanctioned ignorance.” To put it more crudely, if you have enormous power you have the right to be stupid. Since the powerful can command and punish, they do not need to do the interpretive work of understanding. Moreover, power is incapable of recognizing its own violence. It maintains a self-image of a benign, civilizing force."

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Salman Adil Hussain in CounterPunch. The Mystery of Chapatis: Empire’s Ways of Knowing

Manan Ahmed Chapatis Mystery

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Filed under: empire power violence 
February 9, 2012
"A submerged state, according to political scientist Suzanne Mettler, is what you get when a government refuses to distribute funds and services directly to individuals and families, and instead uses tax breaks or payments to private companies all in order to hide the hand of government and exaggerate the role of the market."

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Connor Kilpatrick at Jacobin Magazine.Thirty More Years of Hell

Amazon link to Suzanne Mettler’s book

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February 6, 2012
"There is an audience of bystanders (never perpetrators or accomplices, of course) who through the power of images can have their consciences activated. Political struggles, including the contestation of divergent collective interests, are replaced by stark moral dramas that, paradoxically, call for low-cost, low-risk responses. Hence Sniderman and Hanis casually reference drones helping to protect endangered whales, the perfect confluence of moral sentiment and technocratic management."

— Daryl Li at Middle East Research and Information Project. Some Bad Ideas Can’t Be Shot Down

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Filed under: drones bots power empire technology 
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