...those to which traditional history, even of the Marxist variety, has made us accustomed. We are shown 'innumerable points of confrontation, focuses of instability,...which has its own risks of conflict, of struggles, of an at least temporary inversion of the power-relations.' Instead of analogy, homology or univocality,...

...still-to-be-worked-out analysis of power is formed, then, by relations of action that are not univoca!; they define innumerable points of confrontation, focuses...least temporary inversion of the power relations. The overthrow of these "micro-powers" does not, then, obey the law of all or nothing; it is not acquired...

...relations constituted through the exercise of power 'define innumerable points of confrontation, forces of instability, each of which has its own risks of...temporary inversion of the power relations' (Discipline 27). Possibilities for resistance therefore inhere in every exercise of power. So instead of trying...

...voluntary submission to its authority structures. However, Foucault would point out that power relations are not univocal: they define innumerable points of...which has its own risks of conflict, of struggles. . . 27 In other words, rather than two solid blocks on either side of a boundary, the entire field...

...created for, but ultimately, the limitations of transformation, when he suggests that the micro-physics of power are not univocal: they define innumerable...least temporary inversion of the power relations. The overthrow of these 'micro-powers' does not, then, obey the law of all or nothing... on the other...

...limitations of transformation, when he suggests that the micro-physics of power are not uni vocal: they define innumerable points of confrontation, focuses...least temporary inversion of the power relations. The overthrow of these 'micro-powers' does not, then, obey the law of all or nothing... on the other...

...are not unii ocal." hut rather "define innumerahle points of confrontation. focuses of instahility. each of which has its own risks of conflict. of struggles....least temporary inversion of the power relations." Unlike juridical regimes. he argues. they do not "ohey the law of all or nothing" (Foucault 1979: 27)....

...mechanisms), there is neither analogy nor homology, but a specificity of mechanism and modality. Lastly, they are not univocal; they define innumerable points of...least temporary inversion of the power relations. The overthrow of these 'micro-powers' does not, then, obey the law of all or nothing; it is not acquired...

...merely reproduce ... the general form of the law or government . . . they are not univocal," but rather "define innumerable points of confrontation, focuses...least temporary inversion of the power relations." Unlike juridical regimes, he argues, they do not "obey the law of all or nothing."102 Taking the contradiction...

...during a given period, 45 power that is "exercised rather than possessed," in variable relations that "define innumerable points of confrontation, focuses...least temporary inversion of the power relations" (DP 26-27). Far from being "a transhistorical condition." 46 power changes through the course of historical...