I'm winding down for Xmas, thank goodness. So I may have a chance to do some proper reading.

In Dialogues Gilles Deleuze says

We should ask what ask to today which are the abstract machines of overcoding which are exercised as a result of the forms of the modern state. One can even conceive of 'forms of knowledge'which make their offfers of service to the State, claming to provide the the best machines for the tasks or the aims of the State: today informatics? But also the human sciences?

Deleuze goes onto say that:

There are no sciences of the State but there are abstract machines which have relationships of interdependence with the State. This is why....one must distinquish the devices of power which code the diverse segments, the abstract machine which overcodes them and regulates their reltaionship and the apparatus of the State which realizes this machine.