Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 10:07:20 -0600 (CST) From: CROSBYJL-AT-ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu Subject: Re: What do you mean - power? (fwd) Dylan Riley said: " Weber argued that domination means the probability that a given individual will act on the basis of acommand regardless of its specific content.Power for him, had a very specific meaning, as did discipline. The attempt to establish amicro-physics of power is problematic because the notion becomes divorced from a specific relation between subjects. To be constituted as a subject isalready for Foucault to be dominated." I don't think that we can attribute to Foucault Weber's conception of power. This is not to minimize Weber's influence on Foucault's thought, but Foucault's concept of domination is not Weber's. Power is divorced from the subject as such, but not from 'specific relations between subjects'. It is precisely in such relations that power is manifest. To be consittuted as a subject is not necessarily, not only domination. Constitutions as a subject entails implication in a variety of power relations. Domination, Foucault says in _THe Final Foucault_, is a power relation that has become stuck, that is not fluid. It occurs when someone cannot resist, even to the point of not being able to take their own life. THis is not the case in the formation of the subject. Joanna Crosby ------------------
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