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Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠(in contrast to power which is marked by being hierarchical and egalitarian) marked by horizontal conjunctions and equality (called counter-power).

Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a necessary possibility in power relations (between free subjects). There can be no relations of power without the possibility of escape, or ruse, of strategies that reverse the situation.

A Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠just like the network of power relations which ends by forming a dense web that passes through apparatuses and institutions, without being exactly localized in them, also a swarm of points that traverses social stratifications and individual unities.

Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not simply that which frustrates power, but that which eludes power. If power is to be found where there is hierarchy, resistance is found where there are 'horizontal conjunctions'.

Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never a threat to power when it tries to meet it head on. On the contrary, it strenghtens it. When power is directly contested, it will just shuffle a bit and end up more stable and stratified than ever. As such the possibility for change is better opened up through 'play' (whether sexual or political play) rather than overt political resistance.

A Resistance (n.) produces ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a cleavage in a society that shifts about, fracturing unities and effecting regroupings, furrowing across individuals themselves, cutting them up and remolding them, marking off irreducible] regions in them, in their bodies and minds.

Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the inevitable corollary of power, the difference without which power has no meaning.

Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never foreclosed as a possibility, for power is always power over something or someone capable of disobeying.