page numbers - Continuum edition/University of Minnesota Press edition
p.22/25 Foucault shows that power... is less a property than a
strategy, and its effects cannot be attributed to an appropriation 'but to dispositions,
manoeuvres, tactics, techniques, functionings'; 'it is exercised rather than possessed;
it is not the "privilege", acquired or preserved, of the dominant class, but the overall effect of
its strategic positions.'
p.23/25 In brief, power is not homogeneous but can be defined only by the particular
points through which it passes.
p.24/27 Power has no essence; it is simply operational. It is not an attribute
but a relation: the power-relation is the set of possible relations between forces, which passes through the dominated
forces no less than through the dominating
p.25/28-29 the power relation... the relations between force and force, 'an
action upon an action'... Power 'produces reality' before it represses.
p.30-31/34-36 The diagram is... a map, a cartography that is coextensive with
the whole social field... When Foucault invokes the notion of a diagram it is in connection with our modern disciplinarian
societies, where power controls the whole field... the diagram is highly unstable or fluid, continually churning up matter
and functions in a way likely to create change... every diagram is... constantly evolving. It never functions in order
to represent a persisting world but produces a new kind of reality, a new model of truth... Every society has its
diagram(s)... What is a diagram? It is a display of the relations between forces which constitute power
p.32/36 We have seen that the relations between forces, or power relations, were... strategic... that they
determined particular features... The diagram... is the map of relations between forces, a map of... intensity,
which proceeds by primary non-localizable relations and at every moment passes through every point, 'or rather in every relation
from one point to another'.
p.33/39 If knowledge consists of linking the visible and the articulable, power is its
presupposed cause; but, conversely, power implies knowledge as the bifurcation or differentiation
without which power would not become an act: 'There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of
a field of knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.'
p.33-34/39 There is no model of truth that does not refer back to a kind of power, and
no knowledge or even science that does not express or imply, in an act, power that is being exerted. All knowledge
runs from a visible element to an articulable one, and vice versa... There is only a relation of forces which acts
transversally and finds in the duality of forms the conditions for its own action and realization.
p.44/51 knowledge, in Foucault's new concept of it, is defined by the combinations of visible and articulable...
Knowledge is a practical assemblage... Knowledge is not a science
p.59/70 What is power? Foucault's definition seems a very simple one: power is
a relation between forces, or rather every relation between forces is a 'power relation'... force is never
singular but essentially exists in relation with other forces, such that any force is already a relation, that is
to say power: force has no other object or subject than force... Violence acts on specific bodies, objects
or beings whose form it destroys or changes, while force has no object other than that of other forces,
and no being other than that of relation: it is 'an action upon an action, on existing actions, or
on those which may arise in the present or future'; it is 'a set of actions upon other actions'.
p.60/71-72 we should not ask: 'What is power and where does it come from?', but 'How is it practiced?' An
exercise of power shows up as an affect, since force defines itself by its very power to affect other forces....
and to be affected by other forces... The power to be affected is like a matter of force, and the power to affect
is like a function of force.
p.61-62/73 Power... is diagrammatic... it passes not so much through forms as through
particular points which on each occasion mark the application of a force, the action or reaction of a force in relation
to others
p.62/74 It is the instability of power-relations which defines a strategic or non-stratified environment.
Power relations are therefore not known.
p.71/85 forces are in a perpetual state of evolution; there is an emergence of forces...
the diagram, in so far as it exposes a set of relations between forces, is not a place but rather 'a non-place': it is the
place only of mutation.
p.78/94 'That's just like you, always with the same incapacity to cross the line, to pass
over to the other side... it is always the same choice, for the side of power, for what power says or of
what it causes to be said.' ...'the most intense point of lives, the one where their energy
is concentrated, is precisely where they clash with power, struggle with it, endeavour to utilize its forces or to
escape its traps.'
p.95/116-117 To think means to experiment and to problematize. Knowledge, power and the
self are the triple root of a problematization of thought... Thinking makes both seeing and speaking attain their individual
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