At the end of Alan Sheridan's Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth, the author speculates on what is to come from Michel Foucault. The author and philosopher is still a relatively young man, and he has explicitly stated that he has many more volumes to produce. What will he explore next?
Sheridan's book was published in 1980. Foucault died of AIDS four years later, on the 25th of June in fact, one of the early victims of the Western epidemic. All those promised tomes never came about.
Let's tweak history slightly. Given what Foucault was doing sexually at the time and where, it's unlikely that he could have _not_ become infected early on with HIV. Let's give Foucault instead a minor genetic mutation of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5']CCR5 protein on the surface of his white blood cells, something that will either prevent him from becoming infected altogether or will make him a long-term non-progressor who will last to the development of HAART therapies in the mid-1990s.
What might we see from Foucault? What will he explore?[/url]
Sheridan's book was published in 1980. Foucault died of AIDS four years later, on the 25th of June in fact, one of the early victims of the Western epidemic. All those promised tomes never came about.
Let's tweak history slightly. Given what Foucault was doing sexually at the time and where, it's unlikely that he could have _not_ become infected early on with HIV. Let's give Foucault instead a minor genetic mutation of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5']CCR5 protein on the surface of his white blood cells, something that will either prevent him from becoming infected altogether or will make him a long-term non-progressor who will last to the development of HAART therapies in the mid-1990s.
What might we see from Foucault? What will he explore?[/url]