That was some kind of tour-de-force memory concatination, Eva.
There are moments in discourses in which, psychologically speaking,
people's various power relationships are absorbed by a common task,
in which power is made so heterogeneous that it facilitates
experencing reversals of power. We see this happening with undergraduates
and computer-games savvy kids all the time. In the constructed reciprocity,
knowedge IS power, and authentic/valued knowledge AND power are
equalized.
These are utopian moments that have the properties Czikzentmihyli calls
"flow" or Zinchenko calls "free movement." The are accompanied, as a rule,
by large flows of fellow feeling, across the power divides "outside."
So at one level of scale it is true: there is no discourse without power.
But power is not monolithic, it is heterogeneous. Ditto discourse.
mike
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