Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68Ma way of keeping the revol...ution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is n...o person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »