It is of concomitantly little surprise that Guillory is treated with deep suspicion by more recognizably contemporary critics: Deleuzians and Foucauldians, affect theorists and decolonial studies afficionados and Substack lower-case poets: all those who carry the torch which Bruce Robbins describes in the 2023 Criticism and Politics (the other big state-of-the-field book at the moment) as being lit in the aftermath of ‘60s Civil Rights movements, identifying a relationality between the love-in and the Chaucer course, in turn widening the literary critical purview and inscribing the energy of ‘60s heterogeneity within the rise of Theory and the concomitant turn away from New Critical formalism.