Interrupting the World As It Is: Thinking Amidst the Corporatocracy and in the Wake of Tunisia, Egypt, and Wisconsin Kevin Michael DeLuca Power comes from below; that is, there is no binary and all-encompassing opposition between rulers and ruled at the root of power relations ... . Hence there is no single locus of great refusal, no soul of revolt. (Foucault, 1990, pp. 9496) We will never understand what constrains us and tries to make us despair, if we do not constantly return to the fact that ours is not a world of democracy but a world of imperial conservatism using democratic phraseology ... . A solitary power, whose army single-handedly terrorizes the entire planet, dictates its law to the circulation of capital and images, and loudly announces everywhere, and with the most extreme violence, the Duties and Rights that fall to everybody else. (Badiou, 2006, p. 137) we live in a breakable takable world, an ever available possible world ... . ’cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right*Ani DiFranco, ‘‘My IQ’’ I think that protesting ... Coming from a sort of submissive position, it’s always begging people to not do anything. What we do in Sea Shepherd is oppose illegal operations. You don’t beg criminals to stop what they’re doing; you intervene.* Captain Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society The state of the world is dire. After the 20th century ended with a two-decade incremental yet inexorable slide on all fronts into an industrial corporatocracy, the last ten years have witnessed an acceleration and intensification of the corporatization of all arenas of the world*nature, politics, culture, law, war, economics, food, water, love, creativity, thought, life, death. The examples are endless, but a few large ones will suffice. A politically compromised and conflict-of-interest riddled US Supreme Court short-circuited democracy to proclaim the second George Bush President despite the votes of the American people. In 2003, the world’s ‘‘leading democracy’’ ignored the voices of millions of people protesting in streets around the world in Kevin Michael DeLuca is at University of Utah. Correspondence to: Kevin Michael DeLuca, LNCO, Dept of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Email: kevin.deluca@utah.edu ISSN 1529-5036 (print)/ISSN 1479-5809 (online) # 2011 National Communication Association DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2011.572680 Critical Studies in Media Communication Vol. 28, No. 2, June 2011, pp. 8693