Hegemonic managerial power shows its coercive face only when challenged

Evidence

Blairite power IS Microsoft… in every sense… diffuse… emolliating… blandly inescapable… … And you only see its real face when you challenge it, step outside the smothering consensus of politeness. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2348

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Dominant groups frame subordinate challenges as illegitimate pushiness — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3415; Subordinate groups strategically deploy difference to resist dominant control and revalue themselves — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 115; Subordinate self-determination is read as a threat to dominant rule — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1504

Broader Connections