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Sunday, August 12, 2007
 
The interaction between power and resistance requires an analysis of both Foucault and Negri. Foucault stated that power existed in particular relationships which converted human bodies into productive and docile units. Negri proposed that constituent power is the inherent human creative force that can escape the various forms of discipline. Both power and resistance occur on the local level, power developing into transcendent laws and normality while resistance must organize into the multiplicity of the multitude.

 

 
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