Om kollektiva hjärnor

"Det är först när alla tankesmittor loggas och görs sökbara som vi ser att samhällets strukturer blir till genom just dessa smittor. Bloggosfären och twitter-sfären visar ju att det finns en verklighetsdomän som inhyser de imitativa strålar som sammankopplar våra distribuerade hjärnor. Existensen av semiosfären är det som kan styrka Tardes tes om att vår intra-psyken uppstår ur våra inter-psyken – tesen om att psykologi och sociologi är samma vetenskap. Det finns ingen insida för det mänskliga subjektet som skall studeras av psykologer, det finns heller ingen utsida som skall studeras av sociologer."*

Om nya territorier

"Modern science seems to be able to make progress nor only in its own traditional line - pushing forward and forward but still within the same narrow channel - but at the same time to widen the channel and to reincorporate the great many problems previously left outside."*

Om känsla och tanke

"There has been a divorce - a necessary divorce - between scientific thought and what I have called the logic of the concrete, [...] We are witnessing the moment when this divorce will perhaps be overcome or reversed"*

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 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 gränser IV

"I never had, and still I do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but htere is no 'I', no 'me'. Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroad is purely passive; something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance." *

Om strukturalism

"Science has only two ways of proceeding: it is either reductionist or structuralist. It is reductionist when it is possible to find out that a very complex phenomena on one level can be reduced to simpler phenomena on other levels. [...] And when we are confronted with phenomena too complex [...] we can only approach them by looking to their relationships, that is, by trying to understand what kind of original system they make up." *

Om mening

"What does 'to mean' mean? It seems to me that the only answer we can give is that 'to mean' means the ability of any kind of data to be translated in a different language. I do not mean a different language like French or German, but a different word on a different level." *

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 att skriva

"Coverage is limited and incidental, but it is not intend as accidental or arbitrary. [...] My hope would be that the reader might more easily gain in the reading what I have been unable to state as conclusions in the writing, and I say this not to exonerate myself from the task of generalization, but mereley to express the hope that it will be a book like so many others I have read."*

Om relevans

"Åh hum, vår sång är dum,
ja nästan ingenting
men vad gör det om hundra år
när allting kommer omkring?"

Om materialitet

"Den materialistiska dialektiken hjälpte honom att sätta stopp för varje diskussion. De skäl en människa kan tänkas ha för att hata en annan, eller för att älska henne, är otaliga: [Han] reducerade världhistorien till en smutsig ekonomisk konflikt."*

Om mått

"Liksom varje författare mätte han andras förtjänster för efter vad de hade uträttat och begärde att andra skulle mäta honom efter hans insikter och planer."*

Om föraningar

"Han [tänkte] att verkligheten inte alltid stämmer med föraningarna. Med pervers logik drog han slutsatsen att om man förutser en tillfällig detalj, är det samma sak som att förhindra att den inträffar."*

Om varande

"[Robert Irwin] was advocating a way of being in the world in which everything all around would get tended to (or at least be seen as being worthy of being tended to) with the same sort of heightened attention one used to lavish only on the figure in a work of art"*

Om Parallellism / Designprocesser

"Parallellism kan ge ökad beräkningskapacitet och större tillförlitlighet genom redundans men innebär också nya svårigheter. Centrala problem är att nå den samordning i utnyttjande av delade resurser och det utbyte av data som krävs för att program ska fungera på avsett sätt. [...] Den nödvändiga samordningen kan ske genom att utnyttja ett delat minne. Speciella lösningar krävs då för att undvika att två processer samtidigt skriver i minnet." *