French theory in America / edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Sande Cohen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a few theses on French theory in America / Sylvère Lotringer and Sande Cohen -- Deconstructions : the im-possible / Jacques Derrida -- Europhilia, europhobia / Julia Kristeva -- For a political Roland Barthes / Françoise Gaillard -- From radical incertitude, or thought as impostor / Jean Baudrillard -- Sketching an intellectual itinerary / Gérard Genette -- Jacques Lacan, or the erasure of history / Élisabeth Roudinesco -- What is the creative act? / Gilles Deleuze -- Marshall McLuhan, Canadian schizo-Jansenist and pseudo-Joycean precursor of and preparer for the dissemination of French theory in North America / Donald F. Theall -- Doing theory / Sylvère Lotringer -- Blackboxing in theory : Deleuze versus Deleuze / Elie During -- Critical inquiry, October, and historicizing French theory / Sande Cohen -- How French is it? / Andrea Loselle -- Frenchifying film studies : projecting Lacan onto the feminist scene / Kriss Ravetto -- Disappearing acts : the French theory effect in the art world / Alison M. Gingeras -- From difference to blackboxing : French theory versus science studies' metaphysics of presence / Mario Biagioli -- Research historians and French theory / Sande Cohen -- Ecceity, smash and grab, the expanded I and moment / Chris Kraus -- Sokal's new clothes (intermezzo) / Elie During.