{"title":"From Power as Force to Power as Theater: Scenes of Agency in Hegel and Nietzsche","authors":"Darko Vinketa","doi":"10.1353/tae.2023.a909214","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article identifies a tension between two opposing conceptualizations of power within contemporary political theory: the vitalist understanding of power as force, friction, and agonism, and the deconstructivist treatment of power as impressionability, imitation, and theatricality. It situates this divergence within Gilles Deleuze’s employment of Nietzsche against the Hegelian dialectics, and proceeds to excavate a latent shadow of theatricality running through both Hegel’s and Nietzsche’s respective theorizations of power as bondage and as tragedy. This rearticulates the primary operation of power as one that is neither superseded by Reason as in Hegel, nor entirely exhausted by the excesses of materiality over and above identity as in Deleuze’s uptake of the Nietzschean “will-to-power.”","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2023.a909214","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: This article identifies a tension between two opposing conceptualizations of power within contemporary political theory: the vitalist understanding of power as force, friction, and agonism, and the deconstructivist treatment of power as impressionability, imitation, and theatricality. It situates this divergence within Gilles Deleuze’s employment of Nietzsche against the Hegelian dialectics, and proceeds to excavate a latent shadow of theatricality running through both Hegel’s and Nietzsche’s respective theorizations of power as bondage and as tragedy. This rearticulates the primary operation of power as one that is neither superseded by Reason as in Hegel, nor entirely exhausted by the excesses of materiality over and above identity as in Deleuze’s uptake of the Nietzschean “will-to-power.”
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The research on discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs) is multi-disciplinary in nature and its development has been dynamic. Examples of DEDSs include manufacturing plants, communication networks, computer systems, management information databases, logistics systems, command-control-communication systems, robotics, and other man-made operational systems. The state processes of such systems cannot be described by differential equations in general. The aim of this journal, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, is to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on the modeling and control of, and all other aspects related to, DEDSs. In particular, the journal publishes papers dealing with general theories and methodologies of DEDSs and their applications to any particular subject, including hybrid systems, as well as papers discussing practical problems from which some generally applicable DEDS theories or methodologies can be formulated; The scope of this journal is defined by its emphasis on discrete events and the dynamic nature of the systems and on their modeling, control and optimization.