Status Updates From The 7th Function of Language

"Насколько слышно Кристевой, втовые называют первых французскими отсосами (suceurs de Français). Сразу непонятно, что это - предложная аппозиция (отсосы, которые, ко всему прочему, характеризуются как "французские") или дополнение существительного (они отсасывают французам", но учитывая, что с виду целевая группа - англо-саксонская ..., наиболее вероятной представляется вторая гипотеза"

"А вот и Фуко. Так уж устроена Франция: если с 1948 по 1980 вы были преподом в Эколь нормаль, то среди ваших студентов и/или коллег непременно окажутся Деррида, Фуко, Дебре, Балибар, Лакан. А ещё Б.А.Л."

At Cornell for the conference, all the usual PoMo suspects are in attendance, alone with one Morris J. Zapp [presenting] "Fishing for supplement in a deconstructive world"...

...according to Morris Zapp’s theory there is, at the source of literary criticism, an original methodological error of confusing life with literature...
Yeah, so sez the fictional character who is only gate crashing here in this novel:

Kristeva thinks that phobia does not disappear but slides under the tongue, under language itself, that the object of the phobia is a proto-writing and, conversely, all use of words, inasmuch as it is writing, is a language of fear. “The writer: a phobic who succeeds in making life a metaphor in order not to die of fear but to come back to life in the signs,” she thinks.

[Umberto] Eco addresses him as if he had been there since the start of the conversation: “When reading a novel, what does it signify to recognize that what is happening is ‘truer’ than what happens in real life?”

Althusser looks at the great mess piled up on his desk and thinks of Poe: ...The [Purloined] letter will be safe here. There are also a few books—Machiavelli, Spinoza, Raymond Aron, André Glucksmann—that look as if they have been read, which is not the case (he thinks about this often, as part of his carefully constructed neurosis that he is an impostor) for most of the thousands of books that fill his shelves: