p.109 we must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in
negative terms... In fact, power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.
p.109 the cause of power is its capacity to do something other than repress
p.109 power acts upon our actions, not - as sheer physical violence - upon
our bodies. 'Power is exercised only over free subjects and insofar as they are free.'
p.109-110 Foucault... states that the exercise of power, being neither violence
nor consent, is 'a total structure of actions brought to bear upon possible actions' ... 'in the extreme', constraining and
forbidding.
p.110 power is... 'above all a relation of force'.
p.110-111 'Power', states Foucault, 'is war, a war continued by other means,'
to reverse Clausewitz's famous dictum. More precisely, power, within a given society, is 'unspoken warfare': it is a silent,
secret civil war that re-inscribes conflict in various 'social institutions, in economic inequalities, in language, in the
bodies themselves of each and every one of us'.
