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'With such a voltage difference, the electrical energy passing through the resistor is transformed into heat. If there is too much potential difference, the resistor can burn out. It's an inefficiency in a circuit. You know how your laptop gets hot? That kind of inefficiency. The more efficient a system becomes, the less resistance there is, the less wasted heat energy. At least in theory. And in yet another cosmos, the State would like its politics to run with this kind of efficiency, without resistance. Power surging through the system untrammelled. But this kind of absolute system is impossible, for all systems have in-built inefficiencies for power to work against: It would not be possible,' Michel Foucault said, 'for power relations to exist without points of insubordination which, by definition, are means of escape'. ' (Introduction)
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Author's note: Resistance, in Latin, means to 'stand firm against'. The same word, in another cosmos, is resistor, an electronic component that absorbs energy across a potential difference.
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