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The author puts forward a chain of related notes in his attempt to achievetwo different goals. On the one hand, he tries to remain faithful to both the styleand the intentions of Deleuze while, on the other, tracing the trajectory of difference.The latter is about showing the possibility an alternative reading of phenomena andparadoxes discussed in The Logic of Sense. This fundamental intuition of alternativereading is connected with the identification of the logical disjunction with trauma,understood in the psychoanalytical tradition. This leads to the possibility of buildinga bridge between ‘logical’ and ‘psychoanalytical’ series of Deleuze’s book and toencompass both of them in a single topological space of thinking.

City of Lodz is an exceptional case of industrialsettlement, a focal point of di}erent kinds and techniquesof power typical for nineteenth century industrial capi-talism. Disciplinary power parceling bodies, biopowerproviding with population stability, paternalistic gaze ofthe factory owner and monarchic sovereignty of the tsa-rist rule once met in the Scheibler and Grohman’s indu-strial establishment and nearby workers’ housing estate.{is peripheral capitalism and relations accompanyingit let us verify Foucaultian analysis of power and have anew look at it. Di}erent and less stable pattern of corre-lation of power techniques emerges here; power is nolonger strictly related to the temporal matrix or a func-tional demands of capitalist production, and temporarilyossi/es in relocated and contingent con/gurations. It isan implicit illustration of a new paradigm of power ana-lysis, which Foucault presented when his interest was notan industrial city any more, namely the „topologicalanalysis”, as S. J. Collier aptly called it.