Power is something we seldom discuss despite living enmeshed in its inescapable web. Power is "visible and unverifiable," per Foucault, and it "concedes nothing without demand," per Frederick Douglass. But what the hell does any of that mean? 

In this episode I discuss the performance of roles and what that has to do with power, plus Michel Foucault's idea of panoptic power, Plato's Cave, Theodor Adorno, Michel de Certeau's "referential reality," Life Imitating Art, Art imitating Life, Oscar Wilde, gender, class, race and ableism. 

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