The American Politics of French Theory : : Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation / / Jason Demers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Demers, Jason,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Spaces
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

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 George Jackson to the revolt at Columbia University, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Woodstock, and the Weather Underground, Demers writes French theory into a constellation of American events and icons uncontained by national borders. More than a compelling new take on the history of theory, The American Politics of French Theory develops concepts gleaned from the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, providing new tools for thinking about translation, theory, and politics. By recontextualizing "French theory" within a complex fabric of mass communication and global revolt, Demers demonstrates why it is politically potent and methodologically necessary to think of translation associatively.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Margins, Rhizomes, Relays, and Conversation – Thinking Translation Associatively -- 1. Translating Margins: Paris–Derrida–New York, 1968 -- 2. Translating Movement: Going Underground with Deleuze and Guattari -- 3. Prison Liberation by Association: Michel Foucault and the George Jackson Atlantic -- 4. In Search of Common Ground: On Semiotext(e) and Schizo-Culture -- Conclusion: Disseminating Foreign Principles -- Works Cited -- Index