Brad De Long wrote: >And then there are the deeper problems with the paragraph: power that is >dispersed and contingent ain't hegemony, and so forth... Well that's the point here, it can be: if power is in our heads, if power forms our subjectivities, then it is dispersed in billions of us, in trillions of daily contacts. This obviously comes out of Foucault, who can be criticized for his excessively atomized view of power, but it's a useful contrast to all those classically Marxian views of power, which find the entire capitalist structure in every grain of sand. But we're probably boring all the dismal scientists with this kind of talk. Doug
