Foucault’s own studies converge on the rise of industrial capitalism despite his anti-reductionist stance

Evidence

And indeed Foucault is constantly falling into the pit which he has dug for himself. For when—against his well-defended epistemological positions—he stumbles across certain “correspondences” (for example, the simple fact that all the major moments of transition he has traced in each of his studies—on the prison, sexuality, medicine, the asylum, language, and political economy—all appear to converge around exactly that point where industrial capitalism and the bourgeoisie make their fateful, historical rendezvous), he lapses into a vulgar reductionism, which thoroughly belies the sophisticated positions he has elsewhere advanced. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 207

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• QUESTION: A provocative empirical claim about Foucault worth verifying against the actual genealogy texts — do all his transitions really converge on this point?
• SEED: Essay angle: ‘Foucault’s hidden Marxism’ — the case that his supposedly anti-determinist corpus secretly returns to a base/superstructure rendezvous.

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