It is not by accident, therefore, that he chose to make the con- cept of event the center of his historical analyses. But his peculiar use of “event” serves to distinguish him from old and new histori- ans alike. Practices are events in the Foucaultian sense; so, too, are statements. The famous epistemological breaks of his archaeologies are events, as are the “micro” exercises of power in the “capillaries” of the body politic.