Power in the postmodern is a circulating cycle with no locatable source.

Evidence

That discourse “circulates” is to be taken literally: that is, it no longer goes from one point to another, but it traverses a cycle that without distinction includes the positions of transmitter and receiver, now unlocatable as such. Thus there is no instance of power, no instance of transmission - power is something that circulates and whose source can no longer be located, a cycle in which the positions of the dominator and the dominated are exchanged in an endless reversion that is also the end of power in its classical definition. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 150

Categorization

• XREF: Directly contrasts with classical and Marxist theories of power-as-possession; dovetails with Foucault’s dispersed power but pushes to total circularization. — connects to: Foucault’s account of power has a false synchronic appearance despite latent cyclicism — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 347; Power operates as a diffuse micro-physics not localized in any single institution — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73
• DEFINE: Defines the ‘circularization of power’ as the end of power in its classical definition.

Broader Connections

• Power operates as a diffuse micro-physics not localized in any single institution #corroborates (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73
• Foucault’s account of power has a false synchronic appearance despite latent cyclicism #responds-to (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 347