Power operates through passionate attachments, not just constraint
Evidence
Power, according to Foucault, can.. not be understood solely on the model of domination as something possessed and deployed by individuals or sovereign agents over others, with a singular intentionality, structure, or location that presides over its rationality and exe.. cution. Rather, power is to be understood as a strategic relation of force that permeates life and is productive of new forms of desires, objects, relations, and discourses ( Foucault 1978, 1980 ). Secondly, the subject, argues Foucault, does not precede power relations, in the form of an individuated consciousness, but is produced through these relations, which form the necessary conditions of its possibility. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 131 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Insofar as Butler reinscribes a discourse of affect (“passionate attachments”) into the workings of power, political and other, my discussion of Kant is an attempt to follow her important gesture. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1153 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Renouncing ego and control is required for authentic erotic reciprocity.; Instrumentarian power governs through inducement and reinforcement rather than overt coercion — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1629; Control society operates through familial emotional bondage — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 686 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Power produces subjects and desires rather than merely repressing them
#corroborates(0.95) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 131 - Affect binds individuals to the power that subjects them.
#expands(0.92) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1153