Power analysis must shift from sovereignty to relations of domination.

Evidence

The general project, both in previous years and this vear, 1s to trv to release or emancipate this analvsis of power from three assump- tions-of subject, unity, and law-and to bring out, rather than these basic elements of sovereignty, what I would call relations or operators of domination. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 1696

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sketches Foucault’s core move: replacing the sovereignty trinity (subject, unity, law) with ‘relations or operators’ of power.
• XREF: This is the scaffolding the reader wants: the same sovereignty-to-domination shift undergirds later biopolitics and necropolitics readings (Agamben, Mbembe). — connects to: Governance vocabulary displaces the vocabulary of power from organized life. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 249