The Open

Relations of power and knowledge inform techniques of normalization, and they produce subjects and objects through an infinite modeling that today extends into the smal lest fibers of our bodies and desires. Yet it must be emphasized that the space they create is also an openness, a multiplicity that contains an equally infinite capacity for resistance and transformation, and for the actualization of other spaces and subjects. What I have proposed here is that the question of the subject- not as some supratemporal, immutable form, but as an entity that always remains to be constructed on the basis of an "experience" that is equally shifting and fluid-constitutes the focal point of these inquiries, and that it is only this question which, in the final instance, provides the analyses of the various disciplines with their true van ishing point. This is what Foucault called the "ontology of actuality," by which he meant a reflection on the limits and fissures of the present that inserts a wedge into a seemingly monolithic contemporaneity.

- Sven-Olov Wallenstein