anthropological triad

is the fields of life, labor, language which foucault believed to be capable of opening up new conceptions of the human.

Deleuze convincingly claims that Foucault lost his wager that it would be language of the anthropological triad life, labor, language that would open the way for a new episteme, washing the figure of Man away like a wave crashing over a drawing in the sand. Foucault himself acknowledged that his prediction had been wrong when, a decade after the publication of the order of things, he mocked the 'relentless theorization of writing, not as the dawning of the new age but as the death rattle of the old one' (Rabinow in Inda 182).

anthropological triad, n.Definitions

anthropological triad