No mistake or crime is more horrible to God than those committed by power. Why? Because what is official is impersonal, and being impersonal is the greatest insult that can be paid to a person.
View of the exhibition “PowerPlay”, by Judy Chicago, in Salon 94, New York, 2018. Courtesy of the gallery
Whoever takes up the sword shall perish by the sword. And whoever does not take up the sword (or lets it go) shall perish on the cross.
The body is also directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs.
Ideology has the precise function of hiding the real contradictions and of reconstituting on an imaginary level a relatively coherent discourse.
Little Bristling Soul 