"Hegel's struggle between consciousnesses initiates a dynamic that cannot remain at the level of pure consciousnesses but leads back to their erribodi~ent, and so to the possibilities of communication. Consciousness, Merleau-Ponty points out, "can do nothing without its body and can only acr upon others by acting on their bodies."3l Domina~ tion is a material relationship and it cannot stay at the level of the look.32 Rather, it involves the use of my own body (directly or indirectly) as an instrument through which I may endeavor to subordinate others; and I do this not merely by refusing to recognize them as subjectivities but rather by harnessing their embodied existence to my own ends.33 But if domination and oppression are conflictual relations among embodied selves, they are"not only that. They also carry the potential that we may come to realize that we participate in a common interworld."