Foucauldian Resistance in Dave Eggers' The Circle

The paper titled “Foucauldian Resistance in Dave Eggers' _The Circle_” is analysing the work of dystopian fiction from the perspective of Foucauldian resistance. The paper is structured in a way to depict how power politics is constructed through technical knowledge and how the concept of resistance comes into existence due to digitized dominance. Later, this study depicts how power sustains its position amidst much resistance by nipping the inimical/resistive ideology in the bud itself by manipulating sophisticated technology. Besides, it exposes Foucauldian views that multiple points of resistance aret rarely united together to form a single force. “Resistances are distributed in an irregular fashion: (Kelly, 2009 -106). Modeling on this Foucauldian prediction, resistances at work in _The Circle,_ either inside the company or outside the company are not synchronised together. This inherent weakness of the resistive forces serves as a cause for notwithstanding the power politics of the company. Exploiting this resistive disunity, the company removes all the hurdles working against it easily and holding power perpetually. In addition to this, this paper highlights how the company shatters political power through strategic resistance and exploits the situation in a skillful manner to hold power.