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Inspired by a graduate seminar (led by the writer), this piece is structured as a series of meditations that perform, in style and in argument, that which they theorize: immediate resistance. Borrowing from performance and poststructuralist theory, immediate resistance names oppositional acts that mix body and mind to exceed ideological significance. As the writer performs in the piece, immediate resistance threatens to render the self dissonant, even immobilized by contradiction. The meditations' form and content allow the writer to play with multivalenced, open-ended interpretive and writing practices. The meditations are written to be free standing (but resonant), pleasurable (but nonclimactic), and accessible (but not transparent). Like immediate resistance, they risk incoherence and a violation of 'real politics.' It is hoped that the meditations may provoke further resistance—particularly critical practice and performative writing, which might unhinge the modernist logics that persist in neoliberal capitalism and the academy.

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