Om objektivitet

"Bergsonianism suggested the followig definition:
a subjective perception is in which the images vary in relation to a central and priveliged image; an objective perception is one where, as in things, all images vary in relation to one another, on all the facets and in all there parts.
These definitions affirm not only the differences between two poles of perception, but also the possibility of passing from the subjective to the objective pole. For the more the privileged centre is itself put into movement , the more it will tend towards an acentred system where the images vary in relation to one another and tend to become like the reciprocal actions and vibrations of a pure matter. What can be more subjective than a delirium, a dream, a hallucination? But what can be closer to a materiality made up of luminous wave and molecular interaction?"
Ur Cinema 1

Om kontext

"for each historical formation we must ask what belongs to each institutions existing on this stratum, that is to say what power relations it integrates, what relations it entertains with other institutions, and how these divisions change from one stratum to the next." *

Om idé och verklighet

"A statement is the curve joining individual points: that is, the thing that brings about or actualizes relations between forces. [...] But the individual points themselves, with their relations between forces , did not already constitute a statement: they were outside the statement, which the statement may strongly resemble to the point of being virtually identical." *

Om institutioner

"Agents of stratification make up institutions: not just the State, but also the Family, Religion, Production, the Marketplace, Art itself, Morality and so on. The institutions are not sources or essences, and have neither essence nor interiority. They are practices or operating mechanism which do not explain power since they presuppose its relations and are content to 'fix' them, as part of a function that is not productive but reproductive. There is no State, only state control, and the same holds for all other cases." *

Om vetenskap

"We are not saying that the sciences of man emanate from prison, but that they presuppose the diagram of forces on which prison itself depends."*

Om diagram

"We can therefore define the diagram in several different interlocking ways:
[1.] It is the presentation of the relations between forces unique to a particular formation;
[2.] It is the distribution of the power to affect and to be affected;
[3.] it is the mixing of non-fomalized pure functions and unformed pure matter [...]
[4.] It is a transmission or distribution of particular features. " *

Om tanke och känsla

"If seeing and speaking are forms of exteriority, thinking addresses the non-stratified. Seeing is thinking, and speaking is thinking, but thinking occurs in the interstice, or the disjunction between seeing and speaking." *

Om historia III

"Our diciplinary societies are channelled through categories of power (actions upon actions) that we can define as imposing some kind of task or producing a useful effect, controlling a population, or administrating life. But the old sovereign societies were defined by other categories that were no less diagrammatic[.]" *

Om maktrelationer

"What is power? Foucalt's definition seems a very simple one: Power is a relation between forces [...] We must understand that power is not a form, such as the State-form; and that the power relation does not lie between two forms [...] Force is never singular but essentially exists in relation with other forces, such that any force is already [...] power: force has no other object or subject than force. [...] The relation between forces greatly exceeds violence and cannot be defined by the latter. Violence acts on specific bodies, objects or beings [...] while force has no object other than that of other forces, and no being other than that of relation: [...] it is 'a set of actions upon other actions'. [...] to incite, to induce, to seduce, to make easy or difficult, to enlarge or limit [...] and so on. These are the categories of power." *

Om historia II

"The relations between forces, which are mobile, faint and diffuse, do not lie outside strata but form the outside of strata. This is why the elements a priori to history are themselves historical" *

Om kunskap

"Science is concentrated in an area of knowledge it does not absorb and in a formation which is in itself the object of knowledge and not of science. Knowledge in general is not science... "