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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Michel Foucault
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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