Just as art embodied the potential for liberation and the formation of radical subjectivity, it was also capable of being taken up by systems of domination and used to further or maintain domination.
In the world of fantasy feminism, there are no class, sex and race hierarchies that break down simplified categories of women and men, no call to challenge and change systems of domination, no emphasis on intersectionality.
More than two decades ago, deregulation sparked a similar wave of low-cost competition, but the big carriers fought back with their hub-and-spoke route systems and domination of major airports, and prevailed.
In her report from Cannes at the time of the film's premiere, Manohla Dargis of The New York Times commented on "Mr. Haneke's critique of systems of domination," noting that "the fathers who beat their children will soon march to war on behalf of the Fatherland".
Human subjectivity in its present form is the product of systems of domination.
In other words, these structures create systems of domination and alienation that need to be overcome.
We rid society of its systems of domination by ridding it of the forms of subjectivity formed by those systems and replacing them with new forms of subjectivity.
The social reality in advanced industrial societies is that very sophisticated systems of domination are in place and they are capable of transforming themselves to meet the challenge of any movement for liberation.
Systems of domination require justification with regard to the relevant characteristics of the political community to be regulated as well as with regard to the purposes and interests to be realised.
Third, the focus on group-based oppression has also led many radical feminist thinkers to examine the role of rape itself, and of ideologies about rape, in creating and reproducing not only patriarchy but multiple systems of domination, including racism and colonialism.
And how can we exist and love outside of the gender binary, transmisogny, and systems of domination.
