Power collects the second part of the course that gave Gilles Deleuze Foucault at the University of Vincennes. The course had begun in late 1985 from the axis of knowledge. In this second part, in early 1986, it addresses what Deleuze considers the second major axis of Foucault: power.
For Deleuze thought is never a system, implicit or explicit, but a vital and practical journey, full of tenures, shock, detours, encerronas, sudden jumps and drop-outs, which are not for reconstruction but demand for new thinking . So comment and creation are inseparable. The power then give us periodization of the work, relations with the post-68 in Europe, with Marxism and existentialism, and also with Nietzsche. He discussed the principles for an analysis of power and notions such as microphysics, discipline, and biopolitics. But on a second level the work is recreated and redistributes everything, to the point that can read, for example, words and things, a supposedly pre-period power play. It is that the concept of power will demand the deployment of a true philosophy of forces and the invention of the notion of diagram. The problem of the relationship to knowledge will be readable through mathematical integration and biological differentiation. Finally, the enigma of checks and balances and historical change required to define a notion of "outside" heralding the transition to the third axis of Foucault's work: desire.