Cosima's Problem With Authority

(...) This provoked other questions like: What happens when the rules change? What happens when it is no longer clear who is in charge? What happens when we stop obeying the rules altogether? When does “going rogue” cross the line between acts of subversiveness into full-fledged revolt? When a governing constitution is overthrown, to what authority, to what rules can we appeal to adjudicate the formation of new laws? To what degree does power have to be centralized before it becomes the rule of law? How do we prioritize one type of authority over another? What does it look like to escape the rule of one authority only to become subject to the despotism of another? Does authority have to be obvious to be effective, or can it be so deeply embedded in, or as, conventions of behaviour that its efficaciousness operates through its invisibility? In that case, is it even possible to salvage one’s autonomy from an authoritative regime? Certainly we don’t propose to know the answers to these; instead, what is offered is an exploration of the possibilities of what might be.'

(Source : http://www.bbcamerica.com/orphan-black/2015/04/18/cosimas-problem-with-authority/2/)









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