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Another figure (or rather, set of figures) that my head has been
associating with EP lately is Gilles Deleuze and his partner, Felix
Guattari. I thought about writing about them first, a little before I
thought of Benjamin, but then I thought better of it when I remembered
that French post-structuralist writers seem to make members of this
list rabid. Is that hostility towards Foucault I've noticed around
these parts applicable generally to others of his generation? Is this
hostility a symptom of some sort of modernist/post-modernist debate, or
does it have more specific grounds? Is it a symptom of
academy-resentment? Deleuze and Guattari are absolutely fearless
theorists, and have a lot to offer to those who read them with sympathy
and curiosity. If you know anything about D & G, and want to talk EP
connections, again, I'm right here waiting (as Richard Marx once
reminded us, so beautifully.)
-Jon
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