In the "Prolegomenon" to "Revolution in Poetic Language," Kristeva writes of the necrophiliac: "Fascinated by the remains of a process that is partly discursive, they substitute this fetish for what actually produced it" (Oliver, trans, 27).

To me, this formation put the past six years of academics into perspective and helped me emerge from the nineties without an afta-theory hangover.

Yes, discourse matters--the personal is political and has a material basis, but the political is also personal and has a visceral foundation.

Discourse analysis is important, but it is only one aspect of a text, and it delimits the text as an object of study, so there is always a "writer" present isn't there?