Communicative power is meaningful only in the network of

Communicative power becomes meaningful only within the network of social relations that connect people.

The power to communicate lives in the web of shared roles, ties and expectations among individuals, not in isolation.

The idea of ethical resistance names a moral stand against domination, a reaction rather than the ground where communicative power exists.

Restrictive freedom describes limits placed on liberty and does not form the relational field that power needs.

Political one-upmanship is mere point-scoring rivalry and cannot serve as the network that gives communication its force.

Without a fabric of social relations, messages carry no leverage over others.