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Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault’s ”Intellectuals and Power”

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Foucault's the Wretched of the Earth

Foucault says it's no surprise that popular revolts and resistances to power don't necessarily assume a more perfect vision of the world. Foucault also leaves room to account for the ways that people just want to revolt against power, because it is a determining system. And in an age where power is really quite global, as I said, really quite stretched out, local resistances really assume the most radical opposition to these totalizing regimes.

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