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Quote for December 2008
' Relations of power are not in themselves forms of repression. But what happens is that, in society, in most societies, organizations are created to freeze the relations of power, hold those relations in a state of asymmetry, so that a certain number of persons get an advantage, socially, economically, politically, institutionally, etc. And this totally freezes the situation. That's what one calls power in the strict sense of the term: it's a specific type of power relation that has been institutionalized, frozen, immobilized, to the profit of some and to the detriment of others.'
Michel Foucault. Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual. An Interview with Michel Foucault
by Michael Bess, History of the Present 4 (Spring 1988), p. 1.
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