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power

beyond good and evil

Michel Foucault

accumulation

energy

trivia

domino

clock

electricity

microwave

hurricane

political power

prison

privilege

rich

justice system

authority

change

whistleblowing

is a person's means to obtain some future apparent good.

Thomas Hobbes's definition of power as a person's 'present means to obtain some future apparent Good'(Hobbes 1985 (1641), 150) (stanford encyclopedia)

Peter Morriss (2002) and Lukes (2005) define power as a dispositional concept, meaning, as Lukes puts it, that power 'is a potentiality, not an actuality indeed a potentiality that may never be actualized' (2005, 69) (Stanford Encyclopedia)

is a relation between forces and a force as foucault indicates, is a set of actions upon actions.

For Deleuze, power is a relation between forces and a force as Foucault indicates, is a set of actions upon actions. Forces only act upon other forces, not upon objects.

is a relational concept... symbolic power exist only through circular relations of legitimization between agents endowed with large amounts of symbolic capital ('dominating agents') and agents that hold lesser amounts ('dominated agents').

For Bourdieu, power is a relational concept. This implies that symbolic power exist only through circular relations of legitimization between agents endowed with large amounts of symbolic capital ('dominating agents') and agents that hold lesser amounts ('dominated agents').

is a relational, zero-sum game: If someone has more capital, others, by definition, have less.

He sees power as a relational, zero-sum game: if someone has more capital, others, by definition, have less.

is a stick in the hand, and with anybody who gets a very big stick in his hand, their brains run out the other end.

My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now. Jane Jacobs

is a web of force relations. It is everywhere because it comes from everywhere, not because it embraces everything.

A web of force relations made up of local centres of power around whichspecific discourses, strategies of power and techniques for the appropriationof knowledge cluster. In Foucault's point of view, power relations are present in all form of social interaction: 'Power is everywhere... not becauseit embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere' (Foucault1976:93). Power is the name that one attributes to a complex strategicsituation in a particular society. Its effect is then not primarily themaintenance and reproduction of the system of relations, but it is above all arelation of force (net)

is able to exercise its greatest violence when it operates not as an in-your-face force, but when it parades as entirely insignificant, drawing no attention, and thereby foreclosing interpretation and or discussion.

Power is insignificance, and what is insignificant in itself exercises the greatest violence. The less violence there is, the more interpretation and signification there is. And in effect, if (as the preceding schema indicated) the culminating moment of 'spiritualization' is 'God', and thus the maximum of signification, then at that moment this signification is already in a state of equilibrium that must be disrupted. So it is only at the last degreeat the moment when energy disorganizes what it had created that, in the absence of any possible signification, the greatest possible violence is recovered. (Klossowski 'vicious' 117)

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