“Sometimes getting something exactly wrong is getting it almost right. For example, in identity politics we try to treat a fact of our life as our form of life, while in form of life politics we do the exact opposite: we approach our way of
life as a fact (or, much better, as what the young Heidegger called ‘factical life’ or ‘facticity’). The crucial issue here is not really what is one’s form of life (enter the farcical parade of identities) but that one’s singular life has (or partakes in) a form, and that this form, which has no need to be further defined, is always already a source of power. It can therefore be demonstrated that struggles have integrated, even unknowingly, the logic of form of life have more lasting success than battles dominated by the logic of sovereignty, rights, blood, or land.”
David Kishik, The Power of Life, 113.
