‘The concrete assemblages of school, workshops, army, etc., integrate qualified substances (children, workers, soldiers) and finalised functions (education, etc.) and this carries on right up to the State, at least in the form of a universal Marketplace. And ultimately this realisation and…
‘The conclusion we can draw is that each historical formation sees and reveals all it can within the conditions laid down for visibility, just as it says all it can within the conditions relating to statements. Nothing is every secret, even though nothing is immediately visible or directly…
‘Power-relations are the differential relations which determine particular features (affects). The actualisation which stabilises and stratifies them is an integration: an operation which consists of tracing ‘a line of general force,’ linking aligning and homogenising particular features, placing…