What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional
accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume
(prioritising remarks by Michel Foucault) invites us to think of
resistance as primary. The author proposes a strategic analysis
that highlights how our efforts need to be redirected towards a
horizon of creation and change. Checchi first establishes a
genealogy of two main trajectories of the history of our present:
the liberal subject of rights and the neoliberal ideas of human
capital and bio-financialisation. The former emerges as a reactive
closure of Etienne de la Boétie’s discourse on human nature and
natural companionship. The other forecloses the creative potential
of Autonomist Marxist conceptions of labour, first elaborated by
Mario Tronti. The focus of this text then shifts towards
contemporary openings. Initially, Checchi proposes an inverted
reading of Jacques Rancière’s concept of politics as
interruption that resonates with Antonio Negri’s emphasis on
Baruch Spinoza’s potential qua resistance. Finally, the author
stages a virtual encounter between Gilles Deleuze’s ontology of
matter and Foucault’s account of the primacy of resistance with
which the text begins. Through this series of explorations, The
Primacy of Resistance: Power, Opposition and Becoming traces a
conceptual trajectory with and beyond Foucault by affirming the
affinity between resistance and creation.
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