The Power Issue

Volume 11 Issue 5, January 2012

In most avenues of higher thought, we are bombarded with theories and propositions on the topic of power. !is is especially true in academia, where there is no absence of cliched and over-used perspectives on this topic – power over versus power to, social influence, political power, authority, and endless others.

As individual actors trapped in these broader structures of power, it seems impossible to affect real or meaningful social change. But it is individual acts, taking the form of sweeping regime change or small acts of resistance, that create a catalyst for reform.

This issue explores multiple responses to power in all of its forms, from the politics of the Occupy movement (page 7), to a satire on the Apocalypse (page 14), to conquering a sexual assault (page 14). Whether used as a force to build or destroy, power is a topic inherent to all things.

Morgan Alan
Editor-in-Chief