A quote:
"The thesis, inspired by Jurgen Habermas, that the 'state' has increasingly colonised 'the lifeworld' is misleading, not least because the very nature and meaning of state and lifeworld were transformed in the process. State institutions certainly extend the scope of their operations and the depth of their penetration in the lives of their citizen subjects. But they do so by a complex set of strategies, utilizing and encouraging the new positive knowledges of economy, sociality and moral order, and harnesing already existing micro-fields of power in order to link their governmental objectives with activiities and events far distant in space and time."