” ‘We must not imagine that the world turns toward us a legible face which we would have only to decipher; the world is not the accomplice of our knowledge; there is no prediscursive providence which predisposes the world in our favor. We must conceive discourse as a violence we do to things, or in any case as a practice which we impose on them.’

On one level this is a postmodern unmasking of the violence that is part of any aggressive know of the world, such as objectivism.”

- Michel Foucault, The Order of Things

from Colossians Remixed, Subverting the Empire. Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmat

Oh I want real power:
that soldiers, aiming at men’s
hearts, see into them and stop,
that presidents invoke old
powers– earth and wind and
all their deputies– that
generals sit before their maps
telling rapt stories of the dawn.

(Seasons of the Witch, Patricia Monaghan, p. 123)