This morning, I had a long interesting discussion with my eldest daughter about where some of her studies and some of my recent thinking have been overlapping. We talked a little bit about the work of Judith Butler, and Mairead sent me the link to the Wikipedia article about Butler. We talked about Foucault and Deleuza and who influenced whom.

I was interested to see that Wikipedia has a section listing influences. So, I started mapping out a little bit who influenced whom. Using GraphViz, I even created a quick and simple graph illustrating some of the links.

I wander off on different thoughts about Hegel, Marx, Freud, Proust, Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze and Butler, but I am tired and my wandering thoughts aren’t leading anywhere constructive right now, so I’ll pause and see where they might lead me another day.