Allen Shelton lives in Buffalo, New York, within walking distance of where Foucault resided during his time there. He was trained as a sociologist at a Southern land-grant university, though now his work veers toward fictocriticism. His most recent work is Where the North Sea Touches Alabama (2013).
Allen Shelton
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Foucault and the Fictocritics
For at least three decades, starting in the 1970s, Michel Foucault was a phenomenon nearly comparable to the Beatles, or his predecessor on the academic scene, Claude Lévi-Strauss. In a history of the leather jacket in the New York Times Magazine, Foucault appears like a god alongside Marlon Brando and the Ramones as a marker […]
