Foucault's great fiction

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How could we narrate Foucault's great fiction? The world is made up of superimposed surfaces, archives or strata. … But strata are crossed by a central fissure that separates [] the articulable and the visible on each stratum, the two irreducible forms of knowledge…The informal outside is a battle, a turbulent, stormy zone where particular points and the relations of forces between these points are tossed about. … And at the same time the relations between forces become integrated [] from one side to the other of differentiation. This is because the relations between forces ignored the fissure within the strata, which begins only below them. They are apt to hollow out the fissure by being actualized in the strata, … And there are even savage particular features, not yet linked up, on the line of the outside itself, which form a teeming mass especially just above the fissure.… For at the place of the fissure the line forms a Law, the 'centre of the cyclone, where one can live and in fact where Life exists par excellence'. The most distant point becomes interior, by being converted into the nearest: life within the folds. This is the central chamber, which one need no longer fear is empty since one fills it with oneself [,] this zone of subjectivation.

Designer

Deleuze, Gilles

Date

1986

Source

Foucault

Bibliographic Citation

Deleuze, Gilles. 1988. Foucault. Translated and edited by Sean Hand. Foreword by Paul Bove. University of Minnesota Press. Pages 120-123. 

Deleuze, Gilles. 1986. Foucault. Les Editions de Minuit.

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Coverage

sociology