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It was a bit like saying that the speed limit on this road is 60 kilometres per hours, so there are two speeds consistent with it: speeds up to 60 kilometres, and then also speeds up to 120, provided the drivers take a break after three or four hours. Or, the limit for allowed alcohol levels in your blood is 0.08 per cent, so you can have 0.08 when you drive or 0.2 if you make sure to sober up afterwards.
Overshoot
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
In general, the participants in the state-derivation debate proceeded from ‘an interpretation of Marx’s Capital not as a theory of the “economic” but as a theory of the social relations of capitalist society’, in the words of Simon Clarke. __This acknowledgement of the social nature of the political and the economic is a fundamental prerequisite not only of a theory of economic power but also of a theory of the state.__
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
The power cube is, in the first instance, a visual representation that captures in a single image both the different mechanisms, the different venues and the variable reach of power. It memorably portrays the idea that power in all three dimensions (relabelled as visible, hidden and invisible forms) can operate in different social or political spaces (which may be closed or invited or claimed) and at different scales or levels of action (from the household and local to national to global). The ‘mechanisms’ or ‘forms’ refer to what we have called the ‘dimensions’. Spaces are ‘opportunities, moments and channels where citizens as social actors can potentially channel challenge and change policies, discourses, decisions and relationships which affect their lives and interests’
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
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