Power can be analyzed as a symbolically generalized communication medium.

Evidence

Our current, partial, task consists in clarifying what is involved when power is treated as a symbolically generalized communication medium, and when analyses of power are placed in the context of a theory of society. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 583

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The concept is a formative power, not an empty receptacle — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 208; Power can be conceptually unified across agents, systems, and effects — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 395