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>But surely it's not the case that some notion of 'direction' is needed to 
>justify or comprehend resistance.

At one stage Foucault was using the notion of intolerable power to 'justify' 
resistance ie people would resist when they perceived the exercise of power 
to be intolerable and that there was no longer sufficient payoff in their 
participation in a relation of power.eg people are happy to go along with 
taxes (an exercise of governmental power agreed to by the rest of the social 
body) to a certain extent, but if the government decided to tax salt or 
windows then people would resist quite strongly.

Clare


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