Repression and war are twin hypotheses about power’s mechanisms
Evidence
At all events, we have to look very closely at these two notions of “repression” and “war”; if you like, we have to look a little more closely at the hypothesis that the mechanisms of power are essentially mechanisms of repression, and at the alternative hypothesis that what is rumbling away and what 1s at work beneath political power is essentially and above all a warlike relation. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 36
Categorization
- DEFINE: Frames the entire course: does power operate through repression or through an underlying warlike relation?
- XREF: connects to: The State-model history subordinates war and domination to the State. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 251; Treating power as repression is a clichéd inheritance from Hegel and Freud. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 34; Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368 (+3 more)
Related
- The concept of repression is a juridico-disciplinary notion, tainted from the outset (similarity 0.83)
- Terror is defined by independence from opposition, not suppression (similarity 0.82)
- Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism (similarity 0.82)
- Treating power as repression is a clichéd inheritance from Hegel and Freud. (similarity 0.81)
- Foucault proposed war as the model for understanding political power (similarity 0.81)
- Terrorism aims to provoke state repression that radicalizes the population. (similarity 0.79)
- The State-model history subordinates war and domination to the State. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Blind terrorism provokes blind repression, polarizing and hardening a conflict
#exemplifies(0.92) - Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism
#exemplifies(0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368