Hatred of Capitalism

Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism bringstogether highlights of Semiotext(e)'s most beloved and prescient works. Semiotext(e)'s three-decadehistory mirrors the history of American thought. Founded by French theorist and critic SylvereLotringer as a scholarly journal in 1974, Semiotext(e) quickly took on the mission of melding Frenchtheory with the American art world and punk underground. Its Foreign Agents, Native Agents, ActiveAgents and Double Agents imprints have brought together thinkers and writers as diverse as GillesDeleuze, Assata Shakur, Bob Flanagan, Paul Virillio, Kate Millet, Jean Baudrillard, Michelle Tea,William S. Burroughs, Eileen Myles, Ulrike Meinhof, and Fanny Howe. In Hatred of Capitalism, editorsKraus and Lotringer bring these people together in the same volume for the first time.

Chris Kraus is the author of Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Torpor. The 2007 recipient of the Frank Mather Award in Art Criticism and a 2010 Warhol Foundation Arts Writer's grant, she has taught art writing in graduate programs at University of California, Irvine, Art Center College, San Francisco Art Institute, and European Graduate School.