P O W E R

As we all know, power is central to international, interpersonal, and textual affairs. Increasingly, power is determined in many different ways, not only by military measures.

Foucault urges us to forget the notion of power as one group pitted against another. Instead, we should approach power as a network of institutions and technologies that are context-sensitive. These institutions are responsible for the continued patterns of dominance and dominated. According to Foucault, power should be built from below instead of repressed from above (Bordo 13).