Power… is conceived not as a property but as a strategy, its effects of domination are attributed not to ‘appropriation’, but to dispositions, manoeuvres, tactics, techniques, functionings; one should decipher in it a network of relations, constantly in tension, in activity, rather than a privilege one might possess; one should take as its model a perpetual battle rather than a contract regulating a transaction or the conquest of a territory. In short this power is exercised rather than possessed; it is not the ‘privilege’, acquired or preserved, of the dominant class, but the overall effect of its strategic positions – an effect that is manifested and sometimes extend by the position of those who are dominated… This means that these relations go right down into the depths of society.