The Banana Peel Project

I don’t know who first used the phrase “social force” to describe power relationships in human society, but I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and tell them to cut the crap.
I’m in the middle of an attempt to piece together a reasonably cogent response to a question […]

What remains of the individual after power has had its way?  Is the discursive body an automaton, emptied of will by the permeating discourse of pleasure and sexuality?  Or does something remain that can push back and do some penetrating of its own?
Foucault suggests that although power is indeed omnipresent in the sense that it […]

Power is employed through a net-like organisation.  And not only do individuals circulate between its threads; they are always in the position of simultaneously undergoing and exercising this power.  They are not only its inert or consenting target; they are always also the elements of its articulation. (Foucault, “Two Lectures,” 98)
In one sense, this is […]