Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze

For the degeneration of the workers’ movement has led the theorists to represent the class struggle as a duel, or a game between actively conscious partners, and each social or political event as a manoeuvre by one of these partners—a conception that has no more to do with materialism than has Greek mythology.

Foucault is a twentieth-century thinker of power and, specifically, the power to resist established ways of thinking and doing.

L'articulation de l'éthique et du politique accompagne l'assemblage théorie et pratique. Les acteurs de l'agencement de ces instances sont, soit les intellectuels, les penseurs, les philosophes, soit les gouvernants, les hommes d'État.