America is a place that experiments in what seems to be Synthesisđ“‚™ but is more often Syncretismđ“‚™.
> French Theory is like K-pop, Web programming, fusion cuisine, or all-news cable TV [...]: it is American not at all in the sense of an essentialized and monolithic anchoring, but in the opposite sense of an utter hybridity, inventive mixing, strategic dissolving of single identities.
These processes are "definitely not specific to US culture but often first experimented with there" because of the kind of country America *is* ("for reasons of demography, immigration, self-sufficiency, and [...]")
> Foucault’s biopolitics, Deleuze and Guattari’s schizo-capitalism, or Derrida’s deconstruction describe, or at least help understand, American consumer society more than the old European-style class struggle, new technologies and virtual devices more than Continental philosophy, “infotainment” and societies of control more than the vertical traditions of French life.