ABSTRACT
Our bodies are sensory-motor systems that generate the excess force which makes them able to move themselves, systems that move toward objectives they perceive, that thus code their own movements. Our bodies are also substances that can be moved and that can be coded. Subjected to regulated operations of force, our bodies become subjects of capacities, skills, and inclinations; they can be made use of. In and through operations of force, the bodies of speakers become identified, coded, and significant. Discourse is elaborated about them. Language is itself power; the determination of what is said, in what codes, to whom, and in what circumstances organizes a power structure about interlocutors.
