postmodern power

is 'bottom-up' 'diffuse' 'continuous' 'invisible' 'operating in the micropractices' 'constantly colonizing new domains'.

In Discipline and Punish, Foucault explains the way postmodern power is something entirely new. Unlike monarchical power, whose exercise was top-down, centralized, intermittent, highly visible, extravagant, and stable... postmodern power is bottom-up, diffuse, continuous, invisible, operating in the micro-practices, and constantly on the move colonizing new domains' (Dreyfus Being and power NET).

is not an instrument of exclusion but a pervasive pressure toward ever greater inclusion.

For Foucault, postmodern power is not an instrument of exclusion, but a pervasive pressure towards ever greater inclusion. It does not serve to objectify, exclude, coerce or punish, but rather to order and enhance life. Power creates docile bodies and self-absorbed, deep subjects so as to produce ever greater welfare for all (Dreyfus 'being and power' (net)

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postmodern power