Power, as Ernesto Laclau indicates, should not be conceived as an
external relation taking place between two preconstituted identities,
because it is power that constitutes the identities themselves.
According to him, 'Systems of social organization can be seen as
attempts to reduce the margin of undeddability, to make way for
actions and decisions that are as coherent as possible. But by the simple
fact of the presence of negativity and given the primary and
constitutive character of any antagonism, the hiding of the "ultimate"
undeddability of any decision will never be complete and sodal
coherence will only be achieved at the cost of repressing something
that negates it. It is in this sense that any consensus, that any objective
and differential system of rules implies, as its most essential
possibility, a dimension of coerdon.'
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