>Umm--that's exactly Foucault's point. Power is an emergent property of
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>social interactions.
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>Miles
>"something called Power, with or without a capital letter, which is
>assumed to exist universally in a concentrated or diffused form,
>does not exist. Power exists only when it is put into action"
Foucault from "The Subject and Power"
This is the essay that begins with Foucault saying his goal over the course of his work was never to "analyze the phenomenon of power, nor to elaborate the foundations of such an analysis" but to analyze the history of how "in our culture, human beings are made subjects."