The American politics of French theory : Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in translation /

Working from the premise that May '68 is a shorthand that delimits an intensive decade of global revolt, Jason Demers documents the cross-pollination of French philosophy, international activist movements and American countercultures. From the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Georg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Demers, Jason, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Series:Cultural spaces.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: margins, rhizomes, relays, and conversation
  • Translating margins: Paris-Derrida-New York, 1968
  • Translating movement: going underground with Deleuze and Guattari
  • Prison liberation by association: Michel Foucault and the George Jackson Atlantic
  • In search of common ground: on semiotext(e) and Schizo-Culture
  • Disseminating foreign principles.