What I Seek Is A Permanent Opening

The Practice Of S/m Is The Creation Of Pleasure.... And That's Why S/m Is Really A Subculture. It's A Process Of Invention. S/m Isthe Use Of A Strategic Relationship As A Source Of Pleasure.

Withdraw Allegiance From The Old Categories Of The Negative (law, Limit, Castration, Lack, Lacuna), Which The Western Thought Has So Long Held Sacred As A Form Of Power And An Access To Reality. Prefer What Is Positive And Multiple, Difference Over Uniformity, Flows Over Unities, Mobile Arrangements Over Systems. Believe That What Is Productive Is Not Sedentary But Nomadic.

Do Not Use Thought To Ground A Political Practice In Truth; Nor Political Action To Discredit, As Mere Speculation, A Line Of Thought. Use Political Practice As An Intensifier Of Thought, And Analysis As A Multiplier Of The Forms And Domains For The Intervention Of Political Action.

Confession Frees, But Power Reduces One To Silence; Truth Does Not Belong To The Order Of Power, But Shares An Origincal Affinity With Freedom: Traditional Themes In Philosophy, Which A Political History Of Truth Would Have To Overturn By Showing That Truth Is Not By Nature Free--nor Error Servile--but That Its Production Is Thoroughly Imbued With Relations Of Power. The Confession Is An Example Of This.

Today, Criminal Justice Functions And Justifies Itself Only By This Perpetual Reference To Something Other Than Itself, By This Unceasing Reinscription In Non-juridical Systems.