ENGA11H3 Lecture 4: ENGA11 Lecture 4-5.docx
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Signified power: persuasion (birtish general, judge), industrial, production state, binary. Signified force: coercion (chief of police), tech, consumption/state, network. Reality (spoken, subjection position) is fantasy that is also real (speaks discource) Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird: your position determines which way you look at it. >being aware that the blackbird you see is an effect of the position you occupy. The will (the drive, the thing that makes you want) to power is not the desire to discover the truth, but the will to make things true in a way that makes them appear to have been discovered . Knowledge, power and desire are all the same thing, they all borrow from each other. >when we interpret something we"re saying what we want it to mean, how we desire for it to mean. The will can be very demanding, not easily satisfied. The best way to hold power is to not appear to have power (the balcony)
