Foucault secretly anchors all history at industrial capitalism’s rise

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

• QUESTION: Is Hall’s charge that Foucault’s studies all converge on the bourgeois-capitalist rendezvous fair? Worth checking Foucault’s chronology of the prison/sexuality studies against actual dates.
• XREF: Rebounds on claims that Foucault supersedes Marxism — Hall argues capital still sneaks in as hidden determination.