form part of the movement away from the structuralism that dominated intellectual discussion in the 1960s to what is now called (though not in France itself), 'post-structuralism'.

In many ways it parallels the ideas of the Italian radical left around the concept of the ‘social factory’, providing an intersection between post-structuralist philosophy and autonomist Marxism.

As if this famous denomination, coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss in his Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss, had literally invaded the whole field of critical theory – philosophy, political theory, ...