I started hanging out with the Postgrad people and getting
their reading assignments...foucault hadn't hit my grad school,
and didn't fall into any class...I think he's made the survey
courses by now, no?

In our organized discourse the professor lumped all
structuralists and desctructuralists together...people
who care. Very droll. But artists, by definition, perhaps
not by practice, are all constructivists.

Things have to be made easier for Artists! was our school slogan.

Foucault got me invited into the postgrad program though!

Hey people, I came across Foucault at uni in Sunderland, UK (which is certainly no institution to sing about, but at least the English Lit and Gender Studies departments there in the late '90s were acutely focused on critical-theory, so guess I owe them something). Guess Foucault and Raymond Williams have become something like my deities, but wonder if Raymond Williams' work has ever seriously crossed from the UK to the U.S.?
If Foucault and Williams had a love child, it surely must be Cultural Materialism, but don't know if Cultural Materialism has seeded at all in the U.S. either...
Finally, in the current global discourse of post-9/11 binary oppositions (good/evil, Christian/Muslim, new-Europe/old-Europe, security/terror, with 'us'/against 'us'), I reckon that Foucault and Williams' critiques of power and discourse are more important than ever, but haven't seen much evidence of such thinking in the media in the UK. Would I be right in assuming this is just as true in the US?
By the way, this is my first ever reply on Tribe... how did I do??