REFUSAL, SELF-DEFENCE & NON-DESTRUCTIVE INTENSITY

Do not end the lens with violence.

WHAT FORMS OF RESISTANCE DO NOT REPRODUCE THE VIOLENCE THEY OPPOSE?

Elsa Dorlin → self-defence.

Judith Butler → nonviolence and interdependence.

Ephia Gburek → transformation without destruction.

Mary Overlie → horizontality and refusal of victory.

Is refusal an active aesthetic strategy?

Can vulnerability produce agency?

Can care become formally radical?

Can restraint be more intense than excess?

Can performance create transformation without reproducing domination?

This branch does not romanticise passivity.

It asks how care, interdependence, refusal and restraint can generate form and agency without reproducing domination.