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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Foucault, 'the death of man'.

In the order of things, at the end of chapter 9, Foucault talks about man's disappearance. What exactly does he mean by this?
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The idea of the 'the human' or 'Man' was, for Foucault, an invention of the enlightenment and modernity more broadly. The notion that man was an object or category that could be studied as a thing in itself. Foucault suggests that this is just a symptom of modernity and eventually wed get passed it and realize that it doesn't quite make sense to study Man because it isn't actually true that such a universal sort of category exists. He's sort of predicting the post-human turn in philosophy and social theory and popular culture as well, hence the figure of the cyborg as an example.