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Productive power shapes capacities, identities and incentives as well as restricting action. Describing those effects does not prove that every outcome was planned or resistance is impossible.
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Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 68
Who makes the categories by which we live?
Foucault describes productive power, which shapes categories and knowledge; Derrida brings a different question about meaning. What do an institution’s assessments reveal, and what do they help to create?