Sylvère Lotringer obituary

Critic and writer who launched postmodern French theory in the US but became better known for his role in his wife’s memoir I Love DickIt was the misfortune, or perhaps privilege, of the critic, writer and professor Sylvère Lotringer, who has died aged 83, to be best known not as the man who launched postmodern French theory to America, but for his supporting role in his second wife’s 1997 semi-fictional epistolary memoir about her erotic obsession with another man.In I Love D