One could argue that Foucault and Habermas, although both emerging from different intellectual traditions, could agree on one aspect of contemporary social life:

a. social structure was slowly evolving into postmodern structures that relied on an archeology of knowledge
b. governmentalities were everywhere, especially in the complex system of the media
c. communication was being stifled and manipulated not by discourse on the ground, but by systems
d. social systems were approximating the natural environment, but were plagued with problems because they were too simplified copies of the natural social world