Power
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1. Epistemological Foundations -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. Political Power, Institutions and Socio-economic Organizations -- 1.1. Explanations of the emergence of political power -- 1.2. The State, the achieved form of political power -- 1.3. The State as outdated form of political power: the new social powers -- 1.3.1. The relationships between economic power and politicalpower -- 1.3.2. Displacement of the capacity for action from the State to multinational corporations? -- 1.3.3. Technological proliferation and organizational mutations: the emergence of new powers? -- 1.3.4. The emergence of a fourth power through the development of new collective, discursive and decisional spaces: the media? -- 2. Subjective and Intersubjective Power -- 2.1. The concept of relational power, a concept of subject or subjects? -- 2.2. Interactions, translations and exchanges: locations, situations and manifestations of relational power -- 2.3. A desirous subject driving a relational power -- 3. Discursive Power: Words, Languages, Controls and Arguments -- 3.1. The active power of language in and of itself -- 3.1.1. The efficacy of words -- 3.1.2. Terminological mastery and the power of knowledge -- 3.2. The power of language in operation -- 3.2.1. Performative speech acts? -- 3.2.2. The construction of discourse within rhetoric -- 3.3. The predominance of social frameworks in the exercise of linguistic power -- 3.3.1. The control of language and the resulting conflict -- 3.3.2. Linguistic competence, an instrument of social reproduction -- 3.4. The symbolic and analogic power of language: acting on the imagination, feelings and desire -- PART 2. Mobilizing the Concept of Power in ICS -- Introduction to Part 2.