One cannot understand resistance apart from the embodied attachments a subjectivizing practice enables.

Evidence

I think the issue of resistance to modes of domination cannot be asked outside of the embodied forms of attachment that a particular mode of subjectivation makes possible. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 262

Categorization

• DEFINE: Actually the claim redefines resistance — resistance is always relative to the embodied attachment forms a given mode of subjectivation makes possible.
• XREF: Echoes but inverts Butler’s performativity — where Butler stresses subversion of norms, Mahmood stresses the constitutive, non-subversive work of bodily discipline. — connects to: Subjectivity requires physical proximity to other attentive bodies that media cannot replace. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 303; Subjectivity forms through practice, not prior to it. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 85
• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely paradigm-shifting reframing: resistance is not a stand available from outside the subject’s own bodily formation, which reorganizes how one thinks about ‘resistance’ as a universal critical category.