“... has, of course, gone much further elsewhere, in France and the United States, under the spell of Foucault. The excesses and absurdities of the metaphysic now current in much literary theory, and even cultural history, are generally foreign to the more prosaic world of English social science. But they have been warned. Whether in its Weberian or its ...”

“... Desnos, Leiris, Soupault, Picabia, Duchamp, Breton, Aragon, Queneau, Perec, Robbe-Grillet, Foucault, Calvino and Ashbery (who contributes a foreword to Ford’s book). ‘I abandoned myself, out of my depth, in the Gulf Steam of your fantasy,’ André Gide wrote to Roussel in 1918 after receiving one of his books, with a sensuous intimacy that Roussel ...”

“... which are cited only for authority, never for further reflection, and with no sense that Foucault, Lacan, Irigaray, Baudrillard and Barthes might not all be saying basically the same thing. For instance, on the question of authentic painterly expression: Arguments against Rosenberg are legion. ‘Unmediated expression is a philosophical ...”

“... would be clearer – and her book blessedly shorter – if she’d put in a pinch more Marx and Foucault, but I can’t deny the chill I get from the way she uses Arendt.In Arendt’s book, terror, camps and torture enable domination by destroying spontaneity, reducing ‘the human specimen’ to a ‘bundle of reactions that can always be liquidated and ...”

“... in São Paulo: Lévi-Strauss, Braudel, Pierre Monbeig, Roger Bastide, Claude Lefort, Michel Foucault. The deepest local imprint was left in philosophy, where a set of outstanding instructors trained a generation of thinkers, vividly memorialised in a recent work by Paulo Eduardo Arantes as Um Departamento Francês de Ultramar. By the late Fifties this ...”

“... subjectivism – although in the later Negri or Agamben, with their debts to Deleuze or Foucault, French and Italian currents flowed directly into each other. The contrasting outcome of the two experiences is largely to be explained by differences of national situation. In France, the PCF offered no temptations, and the revolt of May-June 1968 was ...”

“... have disliked’. Conrad’s bleakness and Swift’s monarchism were anathema to him; so was Foucault’s totalising vision of power in which any and all resistance was destined to be swallowed up and neutralised. But Said found them all compelling as writers, and he sharpened his ideas by wrestling with theirs, in what he described as a form of ...”

“... not only with psychoanalytic colleagues but in wider intellectual circles. Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Philippe Sollers, Paul Ricoeur and Louis Althusser are all part of Lacan and Co. Like the analysts, each of them had to take a stand for or against Lacan. Lacan would have it no other way. He charged intellectual history with the ...”

“... destitution, hunger, the ever-present threat of death. Extending this idea, Mbembe argues that Foucault’s concept of ‘biopower’ – technologies for regulating the biological life of large populations – can’t account for situations where life is subjugated to ‘the power of death’. The plantation, the colony and the camp are all forms of what ...”

“... is the freedom to pile category upon category, as in Borges’s fantastic animal taxonomy which Foucault borrowed to open The Order of Things (no order to speak of), or the catechisms of the ‘Ithaca’ chapter in Ulysses, whose interminable lists doggedly outstrip the mind’s capacity to hold anything in its proper place. At a Binary Defiance workshop ...”