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Comment: “Power flows throughout the system like blood in the capillaries of our body.” (Foucault)

  • UPSC 2010
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  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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The statement paraphrases Michel Foucault's picture of power in its capillary form of existence, the point where power reaches into the very grain of individuals (the 1975 interview "Prison Talk", collected in Power/Knowledge, 1980). It swaps the question of who holds power for the question of how power works. The image is accurate about modern…

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