Tuesday, 15 July 2025

 


Power is here understood as a social relation built on an asymmetrical distribution of resources and risks. Power relations are culturally constructed but masquerade—to the powerful and powerless alike—as inevitable and natural. To reveal their arbitrary foundation, to unmask the power of the machine, we need to be open to thermodynamics.

Alf Hornborg
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