Massumi and Resistance

As I've mentioned before, my interests are primarily related to labor and the desire to change what I see as a broken system.  So, issues of resistance and social change usually draw my attention.  

Massumi talks about the body and social change early on in his Introduction to Parables for the Virtual.  He writes:

If the every day was no longer a place of rupture or revolt, as it had been in glimpses at certain privileged historical junctures, it might still be a site of modest acts of 'resistance' or 'subversion' keeping alive the possibility of systemic change.  These were practices of 'reading' or 'decoding' counter to the dominant ideological scheme of things.  The body was seem to be centrally involved in the every day practices of resistance. (2)

He continues, discussing coding (which kind of seems like intersectionality to me) and asking how change is possible and where the potential has gone (2-3).

I'm not really sure where he's going with this, but it reminds me of a book that I read for a class last semester called Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina.  The book was about activist movements in Argentina and how women used their bodies to protest.  Interesting stuff.

I need to come back to the Massumi, though, because I still don't quite understand.