Re: _ROM_ -- hunger for self-transformation (fwd)

>it seems as though foucault is saying that in identity there is
>domination. subjects are constituted within discourses (hence his claim that
>power is creative) and such constitution serves as a limitation on the
>possible ways of being. by making frequent shifts in his writing, foucault is
>trying to break through these forms of domination.

Two questions:

a. Did Foucault in any way succeed in his attempt to 'break through'?

b. If so, how - exactly - did this occur?

(The second is, as I see it, the big question with Foucault:

How does history happen? By what agency?)

Toby

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