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For example, given the criticisms made by feminist commentators in particular, why are the strategic channels of discourse the four selected (Wolin 1986)? Is there really no element of sovereignty within subjects, no opportunity for opposition that doesn’t simply reaffirm the oppressive inevitability of power/ knowledge, leaving us with political engagement without liberal hope or comfort (Hiley 1984:192)? Earlier it was noted that Foucault’s analysis has been credited as a radical departure. If that is so, it is in three ways: his humans are devoid of agency; his social systems are immaterial, being lodged in discourse; nor do the latter have or require formal juridical monitoring and enforcement, populations being so effectively subjected to discourses that they have no active decisions to take.
If modern societies have dedicated themselves to speaking of sex ad infinitum while exploiting it as a secret, surely this exploitation has been in commodified and commercial forms? And if sexual obsessiveness is manifest in these material forms surely their realisation and the market’s exploitation of them are monitored by the juridical and citizenship interventions of the moral state? Consumerism directs our energies to the purchase of private pleasures and happiness; modern capitalism incorporates expanding ‘middle classes’ into privacy: ‘The desire for privacy has grown in recent years as a reaction to market society’ (Younger 1972: para 78).
Objective’ reality as a social construct is enacted upon, internalised and reinterpreted or resisted by subjects. However, whilst Simon and Gagnon and Plummer clearly demonstrate their awareness of the problem, neither can, through symbolic interactionism’s implicit ahistoricism, provide a satisfactory solution. Superficially interactionist ‘scripting theory’ appears potentially compatible with Foucault’s thesis, for even ontogenic significance, it could be claimed, is found within the adoption of microscopic fragments of sexual power/knowledge, and at face value both Foucauldian and interactionist analyses are primarily concerned with micrological aspects of power.