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The resistance of the post-colonial is better defined by what de Certeau refers
to as ‘tactics’ rather than ‘strategies’. Strategy is ‘the calculation …of power
relationships that becomes possible as soon as a subject with will and power (a
business, an army, a city, a scientific institution) can be isolated’ (de Certeau,
1984: 36). A ‘tactic’, on the other hand, is ‘a calculated action determined by
the absence of a proper locus’ (ibid.: 37). ‘The space of the tactic is the space
of the other. Thus it must play on and with a terrain imposed on it and organized
by the law of a foreign power’ (ibid.).9 ‘In short, a tactic is an art of the weak’ (ibid.)

The world, as such, is understood as an ever-folding and unfolding multiplicity, of the infinite number of monads of which it is composed: a world is as many monads as it takes to make a world.

If, in Greek, Ethics describes the search for a “good way of being”, ethics of difference (in the broadest sense) seeks to propose a “way of being” faithful to the Idea of difference

If in Christ and in the martyrs part is whole, perhaps we too shall be—even are—whole in every fragment no matter how threatened by consumption, death, and decay.

Caroline Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Notes

William Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf in The Waves, Alice Oswald, Jean Dubuffet in his “Anticultural Position” speech, Simone Weil in Gravity and Grace