ABSTRACT
It is known that the juridical construction has been elaborated on in its ultimate form in specific conditions, that is, to legitimize the full exercise of royal power on the part of the successors of Henry VIII. The emphasis on a non-juridical and non-strictly economic notion of power brings out the modes through which fluxes of valorization are minutely regulated by agencies that, in their individual gestures and rhythms, enable, fluidify and intensify the production of goods. Power is an ensemble of asymmetrical relations of force, characterized by inequality, and yet continually mutable and amenable to being subverted. A power that circulates and activates opposite and antagonistic positions. An economy, not only of the punishment, constantly interlaced with a technology of government. In the history of the working class the resistance of the individual and the collective body has produced remarkable processes of subjectivation.
