An analysis of contemporary semio-capitalism's overloading of subjectivity, leading to a deep mutation in the psychosphere.Franco “Bifo” Berardi's newest book is an analysis of changes our aesthetic a
An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism."Death has become the most profitable business in existence." -- from Gore CapitalismWritten
The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today's precarioustimes, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalismand the financial sphere have establis
The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanismsof exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction betweenworkers and the unemp
We are living under the administration of fear: fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape. There was a time when wars, famines, and epidemics were localized and limited by a certain timefr
In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecologymutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn't just create the conditions for the murdersof dozens of women
In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decadethat reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In four interlinkedessays, Kraus expan
Historical conflict no longer opposes two massive molar heaps, two classes—;the exploited and the exploiters, the dominant and dominated, managers and workers—between which, in each indiv
Society no longer exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is only a tangle of norms and mechanisms through which THEY hold together the scattered tatters of the global biopolit
What was once the factory is now the university. As deindustrialization spreads and the working class is decentralized, new means of social resistance and political activism need to be sought in what
For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a"catastrophe in the history of language" -- a new evangelist for a linguistics ofnarcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a phi
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
The management of sexuality has been sewn into the campus. Sex has its own administrative unit. It is a bureaucratic progression. -- from Campus Sex, Campus SecurityThe psychic life of the university
The 2010 English-language edition of Christian Marazzi’s The Violence of Financial Capitalism made a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to an expanded readership. This
Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that
A founder of Queer theory contends that the ruling classes have inventedhomosexuality as a sexual ghetto, splitting and mutilating desire in the process.
In this "concise philosophy of the machine," Gerald Raunig provides ahistorical and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French philosophersFelix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze:
Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words andimages: desert radicals, "rogue states," jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom.We labor beneath myths that neit
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
The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female.She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality.--from Theoryof the Young-GirlFirst pub
