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As Foucault helped us see, power also has a productive face. It enables as well as prohibits; it does much more than simply say, "No!" At the least, order, stability, canons, meta/master narratives, hegemonic process--the "modern"?--mark a place of departure for these sorts of comments; they mark what is not, or wants not to be; and what one seeks to change or resist. And i should of course say that such resistant speaking/writing itself requires a secure place in which to stand; from which you speak and write "about"; a slowing down of the endless play of signifiers that deconstruction has brought to our attention; a standpoint, perhaps; a positioning. To speak, to write about is to consitute for us a centered, even if briefly so, embodied place; it is, indeed, to create an "I"; and it is thus to effect a flow of power and desire, topics the discipline of sociology and the social sciences rarely see as relevant to their knowledges and work. (Schneider & Laihua, 2000, p.7).