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A very kickass beginning to a pretty cool book (unearthed mainly due to masochism):

The golden age of cultural theory is long past. The pioneering works of Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault are several decades behind us. So are the path-breaking early writings of Raymond Williams, Luce Irigaray, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jurgen Habermas, Frederic Jameson, and Edward Said. Not much that has been written since has matched the ambitiousness and originality of these founding mothers and fathers. Some have been struck down. Fate pushed Roland Barthes under a Parisian laundry van, and afflicted Michel Foucault with Aids. It dispatched Lacan, Williams and Bourdieu, and banished Louis Althusser to a psychiatric hospital for the murder of his wife. It seemed that God was not a structuralist.

Oh dead puppies :(

Also penning a continuation to the wandering semi-colon/semi-colon wandering meanwhile. Another story lost in misinterpretation.