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From: "B." <docile_body@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:00:35 -0800 (PST)
Any English translations of Merquior? Its ounds like
he may have been getting at what Bertrand Russell was
trying to establish in his book _Power_, which he
wanted to supercede Marx's relations-of-production
type analysis. Russell hoped to establish a new social
science of power analysis (and failed, really -- poor
bloke, but Russell is still great).
-Oliver
"Cratology is an art and science of social power,
theory of authority, core ability to lead, rule or
manage people - a key phenomenon in the life of man,
society and state. It is a new science. It
characterizes the essence and features of power, its
different types, forms, structures, mechanisms,
technologies." [from Merquior, J.G. (1985) ?Chapter 8:
Foucault?s ?cratology?: his theory of power? in
Foucault published by Fontana, London.]