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How can signs become forces? How are signs reflected forces, which are represented by and producers of their subject-object? How does the discourse (of) power institute itself in the power (of) discourse? How does power equal discourse, and discourse, power? What is the function of the imagination in the institution of power and discourse, of discourse-power, of power-discourse? "Imagination. -It is the dominant part of man, the master of error and falsity .... This superb potential power, the enemy of reason, which it likes to control and dominate to show how much it is capable of in all things, has established a second nature in man" (44-82).

Let it not be supposed from this, however, that these things are equal; for there is this extreme difference, that the course of violence is limited by God's order, which leads its effects to the glory of the truth it attacks; whereas truth subsists eternally and ultimately triumphs over its enemies, because it is as eternal and powerful as God himself. 8 m. Discourse-Power-Discourse: The Signs of Force Sound opinions of the people. - To be elegant is not overly vain, for it shows that a great number of people work for one.

It is indeed a question of the description of a process of constitution. The clever man positions himself outside the described situation as theoretical subject, as "savant" who contemplates the social genesis. Still, this genetic theory of society is only a fiction: it is not a real story that is described but, there again, an experimental model, built to reveal and explain the physics of the socius in general. Meanwhile, this figure, by its "theoretical" implications, signifies that there is no state of nature and then a civil state but that there has always been society and, consequently, power; and the theoretical fiction of a genesis of the social state from the state of nature has no other function than to reveal, not an origin of power in general and of political power in particular, but the transcendental condition of power and of the institution in general.

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Portrait of the King by Louis Marin (auth.)
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