Power not only constrains and prevents: it is also productive. It produces new discourses, new kinds of knowledge (i.e. Orientalism), new objects of knowledge (the Orient), it shapes new practices (colonization) and institutions (colonial government). It operates at a micro-level - Foucault’s ‘micro-physics of power’ - as well as in terms of wider strategies. And, for both theorists, power is to be found everywhere. As Foucault insists, power circulates.