**Links to**: [[Politics]], [[Inoperativity]], [[How to live]], [[Freedom]], [[Free will]], [[Grundrisse]], [[Potential]], [[Virtual]], [[Possibility]], [[Negation]], [[Violence]], [[Art]], [[Philosophy]], [[Police]], [[Business as usual]]. All art is an act of resistance (Deleuze). Resistance means friction with what is there. By that token, all philosophy is resistance, too. At the same time, art in its playfully abstract concreteness and vice versa, can be understood sort of frictionless with regard to resistance: given it presents itself, first and foremost, as that which can be appreciated, in however many ways, as that which can be witnessed and engaged, no matter what or where. It just says “would you look at _that_?” If only just for the sake of looking (listening-hearing, etc.). Philosophy, on the other hand, requires friction to be what it is: exists in as proposal or counterfactual/as response/against/given/in relation to much of what it refers to, while art can be highly _isolationist_. In terms of (social) prediction: all resistance is the exploration of a new possibility state (in the abstract and political sense, here). As a rule of thumb, I keep thinking: continue to resist, annoy and reject “business as usual”. It should not be business, it should not be seen as “the usual.” _On that note:_ ### Promoting critical, engaged ”entrepreneurs”/students, and answering their creative acts with violence: ![[OCCeur2.jpg|300]] <small>Student action addressing climate, discrimination and precarity issues at Erasmus University, February 7, 2023. Credit: anonymous.</small> ![[Occupy-EUR-bezetting-demonstratie-klimaat-protest-Sanders-EM-batch2-Wouter-Sterrenburg-3-of-4-1280x853.jpg|500]] <small>ME Politie dragging away student in bunny costume during previous climate demonstration, Erasmus University, November 28, 2022. Credit: Wouter Sterrenburg.</small> ### Footnotes