British intellectuals cyclically adopt French thought wholesale and uncritically

Evidence

Foucault’s work—currently enjoying another of those uncritical periods of discipleship through which British intellectuals reproduce today their dependency on yesterday’s French ideas—has had an exceedingly positive effect: above all because, in suspending the nearly insoluble problems of determination, Foucault has made possible a welcome return to the concrete analysis of particular ideological and discursive formations, and the sites of their elaboration. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 207

Categorization

• SEED: Hall’s jab that British intellectuals ‘reproduce today their dependency on yesterday’s French ideas’ is a reusable observation about how provincial intellectual scenes import metropolitan theory on a lag — worth an essay on cultural time-lags in theory import.
• XREF: Ties to broader debates about Theory import in postcolonial Anglophone academia and to Hall’s known anti-theoreticist position against uncritical Lacan/Foucault adoption. — connects to: French and British Orientalist expertise differ in kind and political scope — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 623; British Cultural Studies intellectuals simulated organic ties in the absence of an actual movement; British socialist tradition diverged from French and American counterparts — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1211
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: French and British Orientalist expertise differ in kind and political scope — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 623; British Cultural Studies intellectuals simulated organic ties in the absence of an actual movement; British socialist tradition diverged from French and American counterparts — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1211

Broader Connections

• British socialist tradition diverged from French and American counterparts #complicates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1211
• British Cultural Studies intellectuals simulated organic ties in the absence of an actual movement #complicates (0.72)