Modern resistance to power centers on refusing identities imposed on us.

Evidence

Foucault also sums up the entirety of the modern struggle and resistance against forms of power in such terms. “All these present struggles revolve around the question: Who are we? They are a refusal of these abstractions, of economic and ideological state violence, which ignore who we are individually, and also a refusal of a scientific or administrative inquisition that determines who one is.” — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 994

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s subject-formation theme and modern identity politics debates. — connects to: Ordinary people’s refusal can topple even entrenched systems of power — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1661