Re: Totalization

Hi Steven, 
I'm new to the foucault list and still a bit tentative about posting to the 
list. Nonetheless, the question of the totalizing voice is one which is of 
some concern to my research at present.
 I am looking at "The Subject and Power" 
with a view to a critique based on some of the 
'decentered' notions presented by Haraway in 
particular, but also by such as Liz Grosz and D&G. I will 
also be looking at decentered power structures as 
opposed to the centre/periphery with which F operated.

 I feel, as does Nancy Frazer in "Unruly Practices", that there is a 
priveleged subtext operating which is manipulated by F as a legitimizing 
discourse; that he uses a position of erudition and complexity to produce 
himself as a 'new totality of historical insight'.

You can understand my reluctance to post an opinion such as this to the group 
- my research is in its infancy and I am as yet working with tentative senses 
of how this critique might be approached.
Your comments?
regards
Tom