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.

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'.

Whatever the critiques of structuralism, the concept of ‘floating signifier’ has remained continuously central in poststructuralist discourses, in all sorts of contradictory and unperceived ways. In ...