Imperial domination cannot be applied mechanically to texts as their cause

Evidence

Our second task should be to reveal relations of domination, and to allow them to assert themselves in their multiplicity, their differences, their specificity, or their reversibility; we should not be looking for a sort of sovereignty from which powers spring, but showing how the various operators of domination support one another, relate to one another, at how they converge and reintorce one another in some cases, and negate or strive to annul one another in other cases. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 62 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Relations of domination are multiple, specific, and reversible rather than unified — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 62

Related

• Relations of domination are multiple, specific, and reversible rather than unified (similarity 0.89)
• Power analysis must shift from sovereignty to relations of domination. (similarity 0.84)
• Domination and relations of force replace juridical sovereignty as the lens on power (similarity 0.84)
• Domination is analyzed via its functioning instruments, not its legitimation (similarity 0.81)
• Economic dominance does not automatically translate into political rule (similarity 0.79)
• Power analysis must begin from techniques of domination, not sovereignty (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Relations of domination are multiple, specific, and reversible rather than unified #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 62