Foucault's Dream of a New Kind of Criticism

I can't help but dream about a kind of criticism that would try not to judge but to bring an oeuvre, a book, a sentence, an idea to life; it would light fires, watch the grass grow, listen to the wind, and catch the sea foam in the breeze and scatter it. It would multiply not judgements but signs of existence; it would summon them, drag them from their sleep. Perhaps it would invent them sometimes- all the better. All the better. Criticism that hands down sentences sends me to sleep; I'd like a criticism of scintillating leaps of the imagination. It would not be sovereign or dressed in red. It would bear the lightening of possible storms. (323)

Foucault, Michel. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 1. ed. Paul Rabinow. NY: The New Press, 1997.