Lecture of March 14th 1973

In my last post on Foucault I referred to my mistake in dates and orders of the lectures I am summarising. I have had to correct my own correction and have finally worked out the problem. I wrote notes for today’s post a few days ago but forget them when posting again and put later notes in there. Everything is now corrected in previous notes, so just remember that this should been XI in this series, and XI should be XII. That is swap this post with the last post in your imagination, and remember that references to the previous lecture, refer to material I covered in post X .

Foucault begins by saying that when he referred in the previous lecture to accumulated wealth, he was misleading in suggesting that that the wealth was in the form of goods ready to consume, or elements…