ABSTRACT
Foucault would seem to have knowledge and power linked as tightly as possible, a gap or "aporia" opens up, inside the thought of power-knowledge. But Foucault wont endorse these knowledges as norms, as grounds for a programmatic political struggle, nor will he find in them any Good to be universally affirmed. The philosophical labor is an effort of understanding which produces a negative knowledge concerning the risks and stakes of a set of terms. The unpredictability, the bias or the obliquity, of the relation is the risk, the predicament, and the chance, of politics as of reading. The condition of politics is this impossibility of society: "the markers of certainty which once allowed people to situate themselves in a relation to one another in a determinate manner have disappeared." Displacing the instruction in what is to be done was what Foucault called "fictions," but not simply fictions, because they are examples without rules.
