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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