This is one major theorist reading another as machine.

As archive, diagram, power, knowledge, visibility, statements, subjectivation, the fold. Deleuze takes Foucault’s work apart and reassembles it around the question of how historical formations produce what can be seen, said, governed, known, and eventually mistaken for reality itself

It is a compact book, but not a light one. The text is dense, elegant, and properly difficult in the way Deleuze tends to be when he has found an object strong enough to sharpen himself against. Essential for readers working through Foucault, Deleuze, post-structuralism, political theory, media theory, philosophy, or anyone trying to understand why “power produces reality” is not just a slogan for people with tote bags and boundary issues.

University of Minnesota Press paperback, third printing, 1992. English translation published by University of Minnesota Press in 1988. Good second-hand condition, with shelfwear, rubbing and creasing to cover edges and corners, light page toning, and some pencil underlining/annotation to the text. Binding sound.