power
    Wojtek Sokolowski 
    sokol at jhu.edu
       
    Fri Dec  6 07:41:00 PST 2002
    
    
  
Catherine:
> > What is more, it has been often
> > used as a claim in a political discourse, to counterbalance the 
> > official postion that almost always claims legitimacy.  In this 
> > context, the notion of "power" takes yet another meaning 
> that can be 
> > summarized as "the social reality is not as consensula as 
> the authorities claim."
> 
> I am not sure what you mean here.
That the concept of power is often used as a political buzzword to piss
the conservatives and defenders of the status quo off.  That is a noble
goal and everything that serves this purpose is good, but outside that
noble goal - we should take a more analytical stance toward human
interaction.
Wojtek
    
    
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