Re: Foucauldian readings on the History and Philosophy of Scientific

Someone wrote:

>	Clearly, Foucault as well as academics in general have their 
>subjectivities constituted by relations of power/knowledge as much as 
>anyone else. As such, Foucault's works are effects of 'author functions.' 
>But if that is all there is then I do not see a particular problem with 
>recognizing that his works are 'effects' instead of the product of a 
>creative intentionality that attained the relatively omniscient status of 
>an academic that saw the 'truth' of power.
>	This would be a problem if F argued that power relations were or 
>are monolithic and fixed. But F's argument is that power relations are 
>multiple and in constant transformation producing both normalizing
>discourse/practices and d/p's that pervert or subvert the former.
>	Presumably, Foucault's works are of the latter sort.

And I reply. 
Presumably?
Why?
>

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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA

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