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From: "can batukan" <batukan78@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:27:23 +0200
reply to FREDWELFARE@xxxxxxx's following question:
"I wonder if it is power that reacts to resistance or resistance that reacts
to power?"
I agree with you comments. Resistance, becomes "the Power" at the moment it
gains the
decisive victory over the "existing Power". Thus, it becomes the "new power"
as it defines
itself in terms of power (and not as "resistance" from now on) at the
precise moment it
reaches the central point of power relations. Whether if it is power that
reacts to resistance
or resistance that reacts to power is not so important as long as the system
of power relations
remain unchanged. (cf. "L'oeil du pouvoir", 1977 last page: reversal of the
positions in the
panoptical dispositif; when the prisoners take possession of the tower)
Can Batukan
Dept. of philosophy, University of Galatasaray, Istanbul
