...resist the grip it has on them." Power, as something "exercised rather than possessed," results in "innumerable points of confrontation, focuses of instability,...and of an at least temporary inversion of the power relations."1 12 What is perhaps most critical is that industry and government set the terms of confrontation....

...did not preclude the possibilities of contests or inversions: 'They |the technologies of Discipline] are not univocal; they define innumerable points of...instability, each of which has its own risks of conflict . . . and of an at least temporary inversion of power relations.'^ Although Miller and Porter are undoubtedly...

..."go right down into the depths of society" and that, a bit later, are given personified form: "they are not univocal; they define innumerable points of...least temporary inversion of the power relations" (1979, 27).2 The "they" is thus at once a humanized referent — those who, in another vocabulary,...

...between classes and they do not merely reproduce . . . the general form of the law or government. . . . They define innumerable points of confrontation, focuses...instability, each of which has its own risks of conflict, of struggle, and of an at least temporary inversion of the power relation." 26 [TRANS: Kafka, The Castle,...

...in order to assert their own visions and ideas. Challenges to dominant discourses can arise out of 'innumerable points of confrontation, focuses of instability,...least temporary inversion of the power relations' (Foucault, 1977, p. 27). From this perspective it is possible to see just why some groups of young...