The rise of classical liberalism in the modern era created a set of techniques that would regulate both the political and the economic. The political and the economic can not converge themselves, but are contained within a larger system of governmentality that imposes discipline while promoting productivity as workers and citizens. Any attempt to liberate oneself through democracy or the proletariat is prevented by a larger structural order that exists as a background for modern life.

 
The creation of commons and communities can be an alternative to the market and state in their combined exploitation. Where the market imposes limits and scarcity, the commons is an opening up of ownership and abundance in creation of social wealth. Communities develop to support commons, and are both local and global relationships where there are multiple abilities to act rather than the one power over subjects within the state.

 
Claude Levi-Strauss wrote about the use of masks in Northwest Native American ceremonies and their structural relationship to each other. Two tribes that had similarly designed masks would use them for opposite purposes, but between the same two tribes masks that were designed differently from each other would have the same purpose. These masks as cultural objects would have meaning in relationships with each other, and had developed this meaning in a dialogue through history where the mythical origins of these masks were determined.

 
There are certain similarities between Foucault and Beckett. Foucault described discipline that developed from a personal relationship between subject and sovereign into a system of internalized surveillance. Beckett wrote plays where there was an implied outside observer that controls the characters, even though the setting of the play did not require an outside reality. Foucault described how discourses created truth, while Beckett has characters in his plays and novels that find they need to examine and describe themselves in order to have an existence. In a way, Beckett is the fictionalization of many of Foucault's ideas.

 
R.U. Sirius is an author and commentator who was influential in the rise of cyberculture during the 1990's. He has recently written a book called "Counterculture Through The Ages" that demonstrates alternative ways of living have always existed and developed in new and interesting ways in history.

 
Science fiction and anarchism can have a supportive relationship with each other. Science fiction supplies anarchist theory and practice with a vision of alternative worlds, while anarchism gives science fiction a purpose and larger political use in everyday reality. Both are enriched by the other, and both require a strong use of imagination and free expression.

 
Samuel R. Delany is a unique science fiction author who has incorporated postmodern ideas into his work. For example he has used the idea of the paradox of finding completeness in a system that closes off possibilities for action in order to be complete itself. He applies this idea to describe the various different societies that can develop on space colonies outside of the planet Earth. These colonies have utopian characteristics, but those who try to find fulfillment in these societies fail because these systems must be limited in order to be coherent.

 
The concept of organs without bodies comes from Zizek and is a response to Deleuze. In film it is the perspective that is taken by the camera that can not occur in reality as the perspective of a person. In revolution it is the spontaneous opposition to the system that is not predetermined or planned by an alternative system. In ontology it is the ability to be outside of the symbolic order that frames meaning which results in a primal freedom but a lack of stability or foundation.