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Juridical power inevitably “produces” what it claims merely to represent; hence, politics must be concerned with this dual function of power: the juridical and the productive. In effect, the law produces and then conceals the notion of “a subject before the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Nov 4, 2024, 9:48 PM
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