with a new introduction by the author and an additional chapterDo you ever get aroused by your patient's fantasies? Do you discover through them something about your own sexuality?—About my sexuality?
A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major globalmutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.
This book marks an important evolution in Jean Baudrillard's thought as he leaves behind his older and better-known concept of the "simulacrum" and tackles the new problem of digital techno
Based upon a 1996 conversation Paul Virilio had with French journalist PhillipePetit, The Politics of the Very Worst summarizes Virilio's speculations about the impact thataccidents will have on the p
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
Globalization is forcing us to rethink some of the categories -- such as "the people"-- that traditionally have been associated with the now eroding state. Italian political thinkerPaolo Virno argues
Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV.
In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrilla
Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time inItalian jails.... I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed inEurocommunism, to the fa
What does it mean to"do theory" in America? In what ways has "French Theory" changed American intellectual and artistic life? How different is it from what French intellectuals themselves conceived, a
Those who are mad like Antonin Artaud, are they just as mad as he was? Madness, like the plague, is contagious, and everyone, from his psychiatrists to his disciples, family, and critics, everyone who
Burroughs Live gathers all the interviews, both published and unpublished, given by William Burroughs, as well as conversations with well-known writers, artists, and musicians such as Tenessee Willia
The accident is a new form of warfare. It is replacing revolution and war. Sarajevotriggered the First World War. New York is what Sarajevo was. September 11th opened Pandora's box.The first war of gl
Power itself must be abolished—and not solely because of a refusal to be dominated, which is at the heart of all traditional struggles—but also, just as violently, in the refusal to dominate. Intelli
In The Empire of Disorder, Alain Joxe offers the first truly comprehensive analysisof the new world disorder of the twenty-first century. The contemporary world, claims Joxe, isdominated by the Americ
with a new introduction by Sylvere Lotringer and Paul VirilioIn June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylvere Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they had developed twenty-five year
Between August 2001 and February 2002, the Austrian conceptual artist Rainer Ganahl, who lives and works in New York, created a series of drawings entitled Die letzten Tage der Sigmund Freud Banknote
