ECH 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Spinach, Erving Goffman
17 Oct 2016
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Power is not something we can simply hold in our hands (it is more complicated than that) Humans love fantasies of power (popeye and his spinach, lord of the. Power is fluid and tricky and that is why people love it so much. Power is something that is not external -> it does not make us do stuff. Power is something that flows around and through us through fields. Fields of power exist in everything that we do. Power is not a thing or entity, it exists through subjects and agents. Humans are often considered the subjects or agents: relative. There is no such thing as absolute power and that power resides in something (ex: sword of excalibur) Power is always relative (i am stronger than a baby but not stronger than an elephant or i am faster than my friend but not faster than a cheetah: contextual.
