ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a critique of possibility, interrogating its logical formations and intimate connection to the practice of method. Resistive experience as a tactical experiencing with, taking part and taking sides, always enacting a challenge to what is. Note here that there is no claim of being external to or otherwise removed from “the problems with which one grapples”; one is with and part of that which requires change. Resistance articulates as the enacted distance of “in” but not “of,” a type of critical displacement that refuses the biased habits of thought that, through their repetition, maintain the exploitative and violent relations of “today.” Resistance comes through creating new potential for difference and changing the conditions in which such actions develop. Virtue thus manifests as a critical relation to the very governing practices through which normalization—the possible—occurs.
