
Michel Foucault’s ”The Subject and Power”
Theory & Philosophy
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Is There a Kind of Sovereign Power?
"Power really only works if subjects are free," he says. "In those settings where people are just turned into cattle and they have actually no autonomy or control, this kind of poweris a little bit worse" But it is differentin so far as it provides the semblance of being free,. We are free to want these things, but we have to ask, to what extent are they actually imposed upon us various certain other people?
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