Sublime

It should be recognized that a defining feature of a synergistic society is that participation in it is voluntary. If people do not choose to engage in a given cooperative activity, the implication is that they do not perceive that activity to be helpful, either for themselves or for others. Efforts to promote social cooperation within a synergisti

Bishop does claim that relational art can have strong political power, and can produce democratic relations, but for her this happens when it cultivates situations that are not socially benign and consensual, like those Bourriaud tends to focus on and potentially to celebrate. For Bishop, democracy is enacted through art practices that cultivate so

tacitly acknowledge the bankruptcy of their own anti-government, anti-regulation rhetoric. If, on the other hand, they fought a rearguard action, if they generated controversy and threw sand in the gears, they at least had a chance to energize their base and slow me and the Democrats down at a time when the country was sure to be impatient.

“Only when power becomes worried about its survival does it react. Appealing to its better nature is useless. It doesn’t have one.” If you’re not meeting opposition, that usually means you’re just perpetuating the status quo.

By refusing the rules while accepting the people and the groups who impose these rules, Anzaldúa enacts a nonbinary form of opposition.