ABSTRACT
Mass resistance movements are typically “underground”, associated with destabilizing tactics during the occupation by an invading force. One might see the arts in general as forms of resistance to conventions and not primarily as embellishment or decoration, while science provides a primary form of resistance to woolly thinking and assumption without evidence – the latter the badge of contemporary populist politics. State governmentality met self-help as individual resistance. Every act of resistance becomes a way of either healing or deepening the infirmities of the public body. Production of subjectivities through the exercise of biopower can act as forms of resistance, as the power to seek another form of life away from perceived convention. As the flow of intimate feelings in both doctor and patient that may be exercised as forms of power and resistance, biopower is accompanied by the institutional-medical sovereign power ruling of ethics and professional behaviour.
