Subaltern forces resist rationalization intended to serve dominant interests.

Evidence

If, as Foucault says m the first two lectures, power is not deployed and is not exercised in the forms of right and law, and if it is not something that can be taken or exchanged; if it does not consist of interests, a will, or an intention; if it does not originate within the State, and if it therefore cannot be deduced from or understood in terms of the juridico-political category of sovereignty (even if right, law, and sovereignty can represent a sort of coding of power, or can even remtorce it), then neither is resistance a matter of might, or of a mght. It is therefore always outside the juridical framework of what has, ever since the seventeenth century, been called “the right to resist”: it is not based upon the sovereignty of a preexisting subject. Power and resistance confront each other, and use multiple, mobile, and changing tactics, in a field of relations of force whose logic is not so much the regulated and codified logic of right and sovereignty, as the strategic and warlike logic of struggle. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 296 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests; Rationality itself can be weaponized against the rational agent — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 366; Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism (+5 more)

Related

• Resistance operates by strategy and struggle, not juridical right (similarity 0.87)
• Resistance to disciplinary power requires a new right, not a return to sovereignty. (similarity 0.85)
• Resistance is internal to power relations, which never totalize (similarity 0.81)
• Resistance sustains power while insubordination through death undoes it (similarity 0.79)
• Right is best understood as implementing subjugation rather than establishing legitimacy (similarity 0.79)
• War of position targets civil society’s institutions rather than a single decisive breach. (similarity 0.78)
• Resistance may now be encouraged because it poses no real systemic threat (similarity 0.78)
• Social transformation meets resistance from both subaltern and allied dominant sectors (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Resistance operates by strategy and struggle, not juridical right #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 296
• Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests #corroborates (0.80)
• Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism #corroborates (0.80)
• Subordinate class institutions can be absorbed to contain rather than end opposition. #corroborates (0.80)
• Rationality itself can be weaponized against the rational agent #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 366
• Absorbing rival elites into the ruling bloc decapitates and neutralizes opposition #corroborates (0.75)