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| Culture is a matrix | |
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| Culture is not a variable | |
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| Politics is in culture | |
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| Culture is political | |
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| Culture is in language | |
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| Language is political | |
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| There is no neutral language | |
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| We are in language | |
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| Authority is political and literary | |
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| Culture can be considered as a text | |
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| Literary devices have direct counterparts in political strategies | |
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| Culture constitutes the body and makes it readable | |
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| Gender, race, and sexuality are cultural constructs | |
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| Commodities serve as semiotic lexicons | |
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| The natural is a cultural category | |
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| Culture is an observable concept | |
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| Culture is made in practice | |
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| Culture, as practice, is continually changing | |
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| The formal is always accompanied by an informal counterpart, the structural by the antistructural and the unstructured | |
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| Change comes from the liminal | |
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| All cultures are syncretic | |
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| All cultures are exceptional. No culture is exceptional | |
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| Culture is wild and various | |
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| Subjects have multiple identities | |
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| Identities are performed | |
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| Identities have multiple expressions | |
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| Every identity is in reference to a collective | |
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| Identity and community are coeval | |
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| Identity and alienation are coeval | |
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| Every political institution calls for identities | |
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| Identities make interests. Interests make identities | |
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| There are no "interests." There are "interests of" and "interests as." | |
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| Every identity is partial | |
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| Community entails alienation | |
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| Belonging may be expressed as affirmation or rebellion | |
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| Each institution calls for its own resistance | |
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| There is no culture without resistance | |
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| There is no culture without internal critique | |
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| Meaning is made out of difference | |
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| Power is productive | |
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| Opposition is productive | |
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| Lack impels. Lack is productive | |
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| Power comes from the absence of power | |
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| The most effective domination is internal | |
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| The most effective rule is invisible and appears as inevitable | |
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| Domination is through and of the senses | |
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| Prohibitions produce institutions and resistances. Prohibitions interpellate identities | |
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| Ruling structures constrain the rulers as well as the ruled, the advantaged as well as the disadvantaged | |
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| That which is overcome, remains | |
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| Nothing runs ahead of its time. Many things run ahead of their time | |
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| Facts do not speak for themselves | |
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| Facts are made | |
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| Facts are artifacts of the methods that produce them | |
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| There are no neutral methods | |
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| There are no neutral scientists | |
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| Work speaks simultaneously of its ostensible object and of its author and context | |
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| There are no general laws | |
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| There is no evidence. Evidence is always of and for something | |
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| Nothing is noncontributory | |
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| That which is omitted, absent, and silent is as important as that which is committed, present, and conspicuous | |
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| Description entails analysis | |
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| No account can be comprehensive | |
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| Representation alters the represented | |
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| Quantification is distortion | |
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| Formality obscures more than it clarifies | |
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| Every method has an evaluative hierarchy | |
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| Every method has an aesthetic | |
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| Parsimony is an aesthetic criterion | |
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| The form in which something is expressed determines its meaning. The signifier constitutes the meaning of the sign | |
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| Surfaces are as meaningful as that which lies beneath them | |
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| Name constitute. Categories constitute | |
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| All categories are subject to an interior articulation and to an articulation of their relations with others. No category is internally homogenous, or independent | |
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| Correlation does not establish causality | |
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| Accurate prediction is not proof of correct reasoning | |
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| Replication is not proof | |
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| Repetitions alter what they repeat | |
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| Falsifiability does not establish validity. Falsifiability is not a necessary attribute of a theory, nor an index of superiority | |
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| Subjective satisfaction is not an index of the truth or the merit of a theory | |
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| Systems of knowledge are systems of power | |
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| Truth is a cultural category. Truth is in culture | |
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| Experience confers only a limited understanding | |
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| Lies and errors are meaningful | |
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| Time is an attribute of the observer, not of the observed | |
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| A statement of a causal relation is not a theory. Theory does not require causality | |
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| Schemes of causality are narrative fictions driven by illusory personifications | |
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| Culture has dimensions in time and space | |
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| Cultures have tempi | |
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| If one can ask where, then one can also ask when. If one can ask when, one can ask where | |