Fwhoie-co

I wonder how Foucault would qualify the author-function of his own "works." Does he consider his body of work to demonstrate an initiation of multiple discourses? How close does Foucault stand to the "second self" of the "I" in "What is an Author?" Foucault was so prolific with his writings that it's hard not to think that he wasn't struggling against death by making sure his name appeared alongside all his writings before he died. I'm curious that the only direct reference he makes to himself, as an author (or would he have called it as a "functioning author") is when he discusses his intentions for The Order of Things. Reading Foucault after reading Barthes' "The Death of the Author," I start to think that it's irrelevant for Foucault to try to explain his intentions. In my reading of his essay, I think of other things. I think of a bald head, a pair ofglasses, the pendulum at Griffith's Observatory. I wonder of Michel ever thought of Leon and the rotation of the earth. I think of how my expectations that Foucault would reference himself more directly in a piece entitled "What is an Author?" are completely unmet.