Nonsubordination is the simple, unspectacular struggle to shape one’s life. It is people’s reluctance to give up the simple pleasures of life, their reluctance to become machines, the determination to forge and maintain some degree of power-to.

Definition implies subordination.

We do not need to have a picture of what a true world would be like in order to feel that there is something radically wrong with the world that exists.

We are the only creators, the only gods. Guilty gods, negated gods, damaged, schizophrenic gods, but above all self- changing gods.

A whole world of horror is contained in the process of definition.

Doing is inherently plural, collective, choral, communal.

Identification is domination.

We need no promise of a happy ending to justify our rejection of a world we feel to be wrong.

We are the sole creators of the system which entraps us.

[...] sentir que o mundo está equivocado não significa, necessariamente, que temos a imagem de uma utopia que ocupe o seu lugar. [...] Não necessitamos da promessa de um final feliz para justificar a nossa rejeição a um mundo que sentimos estar equivocado.