Édouard Glissant
(1928–2011)Caribbeanwriter and critical theorist. He is best known as one of the principal architects behind Creoleness, the movement to celebrate the cultural, ethnic, and political heterogeneity of ...
episteme
Foucault's term for the total set of relations within a particular historical period uniting the discursive practices which generate its epistemologies. See also discourse; discursive formation; ...
Gilles Deleuze
(1925–95)Sorbonne-educated and based in Paris for most of his career, Deleuze started as a historian of philosophy, writing about Hume, Spinoza, and Nietzsche. Later work, particularly in ...
Temporary Autonomous Zone
(TAZ)Anarchist poet and social activist Hakim Bey's radical proposal for a concept of utopia suited to the historical conditions of late capitalism. Conceived in the late 1980s when the Cold War ...
