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Homophobia

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is anything which blocks politics by defining possibilities that establish the terms for the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, and the sayable and the unsayable.

As the general law that determines the distribution of parts and roles in a community as well as its forms of exclusion, the police is first and foremost an organization of 'bodies' based on a communal distribution of the sensible, i.e. a system of coordinates defining modes of being, doing, making, and communicating that establishes the borders between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the sayable and the unsay able. This term should not be confused with la basse police or the low-level police force that the word commonly refers to in both French and English. La basse police is only one particular instantiation of an overall distribution of the sensible that purports to provide a totalizing account of the population by assigning everyone a title and a role within the social edifice. The essence of the police, therefore, is not repression but rather a certain distribution of the sensible that precludes the emergence of politics. This being the case, there are nonetheless better and worse forms of police, depending on the extent to which the established order remains open to breaches in its natural' logic' (Rancière 2000: 89).

is not men in blue uniforms but laws and customs that regulate behavior.

a set of rules and tactics that make work possible and necessary for those who cannot do without it'

Virilio defines the state's political power as 'the polis, the police.' He concludes: [S]ince the dawn of the bourgeois revolution, the political discourse has been no more than a series of more or less conscious repetitions of the old communal poliorectics, confusing social order with the control of traffic (of people, of goods), and revolution, revolt, with traffic jams, illegal parking, multiple crashes, collisions'

is, in our age, likely to get to your house after a pizza would.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your house before the police do.

is never as good at his job as the rain. The rain is the best policeman of all, for criminals don't like getting wet.

Rain is the best policeman of all. Criminals don't like getting wet.

is the totality of measures which make work possible and necessary..

Police is the totality of measures which make work possible and necessary.

is the country's biggest group of troublemakers. Just think of how many protests they attend.

The biggest troublemakers in this country are the police. Have you seen how many protests they attend?

police, n.All

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