that being a form of knowledge and discourse. In other words, it wasn't, as it were, by accident that these groups were picked out, they were picked out because their marginal discourses would allow the main discourse to be even more in place, in control and so on and this seems to me at least to cut very strongly against Habermas' communication theory because if it is the case that wherever we find information, communication and so on, we also will find power that controls the ways in which it flows; who may talk, when and how long, if there is no way to uncouple that then Habermas' argument will fail. Foucault does not say it will fail. In fact, Foucault himself, because he holds a radical anarchist position is caught in what I would call "the critics' paradox". The more powerfully the critic paints the ills of the society and the fragility of the self and the struggle it undergoes to be a human; the more powerful our account is, the more hopeless the people feel who could do anything about it. On the other hand, if we don't paint the account in such a powerful way then people tend to underestimate what they are up against, so you have got a critic's dilemma. Foucault clearly has picked the path where he doesn't care if you feel powerless or not; that's your problem, you have got to do something about it, so he draws out all the mechanisms of