Book: What is commanding?

Power ceases to exist not when it is not obeyed more or less fully, but when it ceases to give orders.
... one could give a good description of the supposedly democratic societies in which we live, with a simple statement: within these societies, the ontology of command has taken the place of an ontology of affirmation, not in the clear form of an imperative, but in a more insidious form of advice, invitation, notification, which are given in the name of security, so that obedience to an order takes the form of cooperation, and often in the form of command to oneself.