Self-Effacement and Power Relations

1. Powers preside over us beyond our control. Masculine powers, state powers, religious powers, parental powers, sexual powers, technological powers, economic powers - the list is nearly endless.

2. We are embodied individuals. This means that we have a sense of a coherent self, existing through time.

to be continued....

Perhaps every academic discipline is a study in rebellion against one of these powers. Literature against the power mortality holds over us...