If the resistance is also part of the power and this strengthens possibly without us the ever notice how then is it still politically obstructive action possible? On this issue, the debate go on a first reading of "The will to knowledge" with the feeling of each step we would inevitably be more entangled in the power networks.
Well, the first reading and the desperate knowledge are now also back a few years. The theoretical confusion and inability to act was certainly not unimportant for the questioning of one's actions.
"One should also note that there may be relations of power only to the extent to which subjects are free. If one of them completely at the disposal of others and would become his cause would be a subject on which this boundless and could exercise unlimited violence, there would be no power relations. This may be a power relationship, it requires so on both side of a specific form of freedom. Even if the power relationship is completely out of balance when you can really say that one all the power held by the other, so the power can be on the other exercise only to the extent that this is the possibility remains to be to kill, to jump out the window or the other to kill. This means that in power relations necessarily are ways of resistance, because if there is no possibility of resistance - of violent resistance, flight, guile, strategies, reverse the situation - there, then there would be no power relations. Against this general background, I refuse to answer the question that makes me sometimes ". There But if power is everywhere, then there is no resistance," I reply: If it Machtbeziehugen are pervading the social fabric, then because there is freedom everywhere. Now there is in fact rule states. In many cases, the power relations are reinforced such that they are asymmetrical in the long term and the margin of freedom is extremely limited. [...] In such a situation, the rule must be to all these questions, depending on the type and the precise form Herrchaft the answer to each specific manner. The claim, however: "You see, power is everywhere, therefore there is no room for freedom", seems completely inappropriate. Man I can not ascribe to the notion that might is an Herrschaftssysem that controls everything and leaves no room for freedom "
. [Michel Foucault: The ethics of care of the self as a practice of freedom, Dits et Ecrits IV]
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