[lbo-talk] internally riven

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 13 06:20:16 PDT 2009


On Apr 13, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Mike Beggs wrote:


> The notion of domination is one that explains what it means
> conventionally to say someone is “powerful” or “has power,” but in
> fact sees power not as a possession, but as a structural difference.
> The basic Foucaultian schema of power, including the principle of
> reversibility, was included in Foucault’s thinking all along, as
> demonstrated by this passage from Discipline and Punish:

Years ago, I read a paper whose author escapes me, arguing that power functioned for Foucault in a way similar to the way value did for Marx - it's not a static thing, but only exists in circulation.

Doug



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