MF: “We will have to return to the relationships between knowledge and power.  I think that in the public’s eye I am the one who has said that knowledge has become indistinguishable from power, that it was only a think mask through over the structures of domination and that the latter were always oppression and enclosure, etc.  On the first point I will respond with a burst of laughter.  If I had said, or wanted to say that knowledge was power I would have said it, and having said it, I would no longer have anything to say, since in identifying them I would have no reason to try to show their different relationships.  I directed my attention specifically to see how certain forms of power which were of the same type could yield to forms of knowledge extremely different in their object and structure. [. . .]  Those who say that for me knowledge is the mask of power don’t seem to have the capacity to understand.  There’s hardly any point in responding to them.

Q: Which you judge useful to do right now however.

MF: “Which I find important to do now.”