"‘I’ oppress myself inasmuch as that ‘I’ is the produced of a system of oppression that extends to all aspects of living.
The “revolutionary consciousness” is a mystification if it is not situated within a “revolutionary body,” that is to say, within a body that produces its own liberation.
Women in revolt against a male power—a power that has been forced on their bodies for centuries—homosexuals in revolt against the terroristic “normality,” young people in revolt against the pathological authority of adults: these are the people who, collectively, have begun to make the body a means of subversion, and have begun to see subversion as a means for meeting the “immediate” needs of the body.
These are the people who have begun to question the mode of production of desires, the relationship between pleasure and power, the relationship between the body and the individual. These are the people who question the function of such relationships in all spheres of capitalist society, including within militant groups."
F. Guattari; To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
The “revolutionary consciousness” is a mystification if it is not situated within a “revolutionary body,” that is to say, within a body that produces its own liberation.
Women in revolt against a male power—a power that has been forced on their bodies for centuries—homosexuals in revolt against the terroristic “normality,” young people in revolt against the pathological authority of adults: these are the people who, collectively, have begun to make the body a means of subversion, and have begun to see subversion as a means for meeting the “immediate” needs of the body.
These are the people who have begun to question the mode of production of desires, the relationship between pleasure and power, the relationship between the body and the individual. These are the people who question the function of such relationships in all spheres of capitalist society, including within militant groups."
F. Guattari; To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
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