Power: Making a passage possible.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-08-24
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22083215
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Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
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Power: Making a passage possible.

DENJOY FREDERIC
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
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Power: Making a passage possible.

DENJOY FREDERIC
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Abstract

What has come about, without you, thanks to you?" Power is making a passage possible, without taking it. Against the tradition that measures power by constraint, this essay defines it as the operation that adds to the world a cause that does not belong to you, and gives the criterion that measures it: what has come about, without you, thanks to you? By this measure, night nurses and schoolteachers hold more power than entire org charts, and the bottleneck through which everything passes is power's negation. The essay names the counterfeit that opens and takes, captation; derives the two deaths of power; and settles the lineages, from Weber, Foucault, and Arendt to Socrates, Vygotsky, and Lao Tzu. Sixth of seven essays laying out the grammar of an ontology of passage: how local worlds live, hold, and die.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
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