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The Tyranny of the System

Authors: Ibrahim Anwar;

The Tyranny of the System

Abstract

On domination that needs no dictator and the empty throne The most complete domination needs no dictator; it is exercised by a structure that constrains everyone, including the people who appear to run it. The most complete tyranny has no tyrant. It is exercised by a structure that constrains everyone caught in it, including the people who appear to run it and who are themselves bound by the same arrangement they seem to command. There is no one to overthrow and no one to appeal to, which is exactly what makes it so total. The book is about impersonal domination, the sovereignty of structure itself, and about why naming the system rather than hunting for a villain is the first honest step under it. Audiences: The person under structural coercion — The coercion is real and there is no one to appeal to, because the constraint is exercised by a structure that binds even the people who seem to command it. The political-theory reader — Domination is theorized as a relation between agents, leaving the more complete case, where structure dominates all agents, underdeveloped in plain terms. The reader of power — Power is pictured as someone having it over someone, so the tyranny that no one holds and everyone suffers is hard to see. Note: written from Indonesian operator context. Frameworks apply broadly to other emerging-market and SME settings.

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power exercised by structure rather than by an agent, domination with no one to appeal to, structural and impersonal domination in plain terms, Max Weber, tyranny without a tyrant, Michel Foucault, the system that constrains even those who seem to rule it

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