Well, there is an ambiguity, because part of the whole point of these guys was tearing down the notion of total systems. However, they begin by presupposing the existence of what they deny. (There is this big system, but -- it contains holes!)
In the real world, almost nobody believes in total systems, and few people actually believe in master narratives, and what they are attacking is a product of their own philosophical presuppositions ("knowledge = system"). A problem that is easily avoided by not presupposing that societies or ideological constructs are self-regulating systems in the first place. Not even language, the paradigm, is actually a self-regulating system.
--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If you think Foucault wasn't concerned with outsides, you
> really do
> need to stop typing and read the guy.
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