PREFACE -towards theory of power This writing is a step towards formulating a theory of power play that takes place and gets negotiated among people in their life making routines. In more specific terms the writing is developed to surfacing of power play in the lives of people. As such these issues are not direct concerns of any known discipline. To me they form the core of my theory of C-semiology. The theory of power play is conceptualized within the vision of this theory. In that sense this

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... riting also develops C-semiology further. This writing takes a position on power on two different levels of observation. The first, among those theories of human action that believe that all that is articulated in life praxis has just mater of fact and declarative statements, this writing takes a position that the so called mater of fact and declarative statements not only carry power (see Rangila 1988) expressed in them, but they are purposefully invested with power (see Rangila 2001a). The second, among those theories of power that just assume that power is expressed in all that ever happens in the lives of people, but do not give any place to the observation of actual power play, this writing attempts to theorise power play as lived experience of individuals as they make their lives in societies world over. The writing, in this sense, does not leave power as a mere existential. Power is also conceptualized as an actential reality.