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This book, like many of Deleuze's other works, is commendable not on the uniqueness of its contents (the theory being applied is in my eyes effectively identical to that in Difference and Repetition) but because of the small-scale variations inflicted upon these contents which unveil new potentials for their use.

Unlike most of Deleuze's works, his book on Foucault provides an articulation of his broad metaphysics in the context of its implications for politics and society. These implications are brought about by elaborating theoretically a series of equivalences, via a readaptation of Foucault's corpus: difference/repetition=memory/forgetting, plane-of-immanence=diagram, bodies/paradoxies/events=power/desire/knowledge, corporeal/incorporeal=visible/articulable, and so on.

That said, there is still much from this book that I cannot claim to have understood. A general criticism which deserves to be voiced against all of Deleuze's works on the history of philosophy is that he presumes each time that his reader has an exhaustive knowledge of his 'partner' - and I know far less Foucault than I do Deleuze. Do not approach this work expecting a critical introduction to Foucault; expect from it the creative exercise of thought for which Deleuze is best known.