{"product_id":"the-primacy-of-resistance-marco-checchi-9781350214354","title":"The Primacy of Resistance: Power, Opposition and Becoming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is at the heart of political resistance? \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhilst traditional accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume (prioritising remarks by Michel Foucault) invites us to think of resistance as primary. The author proposes a strategic analysis that highlights how our efforts need to be redirected towards a horizon of creation and change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChecchi first establishes a genealogy of two main trajectories of the history of our present: the liberal subject of rights and the neoliberal ideas of human capital and bio-financialisation. The former emerges as a reactive closure of Etienne de la Boétie's discourse on human nature and natural companionship. The other forecloses the creative potential of Autonomist Marxist conceptions of labour, first elaborated by Mario Tronti. The focus of this text then shifts towards contemporary openings. Initially, Checchi proposes an inverted reading of Jacques Rancière's concept of politics as interruption that resonates with Antonio Negri's emphasis on Baruch Spinoza's potential qua resistance. Finally, the author stages a virtual encounter between Gilles Deleuze's ontology of matter and Foucault's account of the primacy of resistance with which the text begins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough this series of explorations, \u003ci\u003eThe Primacy of Resistance: Power, Opposition and Becoming\u003c\/i\u003e traces a conceptual trajectory with and beyond Foucault by affirming the affinity between resistance and creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marco Checchi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350214353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350214354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d","brand":"Marco Checchi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48484964860159,"sku":"9781350214354","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60c474ad-070b-44e7-a6b2-36e0a6636373.jpg?v=1778047008","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-primacy-of-resistance-marco-checchi-9781350214354","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}