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Political analyses are not created through rational thought alone. Rather, our emotions, experiences, psychologies, and other bodily processes cannot be completely detached from how we think about and theorise things.

Prefigurative Politics

Paul Raekstad

First, neoliberalism is one political project among many – and has to find ways of coming to terms, or co-habiting with, others (in alliances, or through incorporation or subordination). Second, political projects are, in part, attempts to overcome previous problems (contradictions, resistances, refusals, disjunctures). Resistance shouldn't just be viewed as the effect of power plays (always after the event): it is one of the preconditions for the emergence of political projects and governmental strategies. Third, as we have kept insisting, political projects are not always and not necessarily successful. They suffer implementation gaps, translation problems and encounter more or less compliant subjects, producing a fractured, uneven and potentially unruly social field – a field in which, of course, the elements of alternative imaginings of the social and its better ordering might be found.

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.

Mastery

Robert Greene

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