Set in post-9/11 New York City, Reena Spaulings was written by a large collective of writers and artists that bills itself as The Bernadette Corporation. Like most contemporary fiction, Reena Spaulin
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
Automation and information technology have transformed the organization of labor tosuch an extent that the processes of exploitation have moved beyond the labor class and now workupon society as a who
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
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
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
"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing whenone has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost itsmeaning."--from The Ecstasy of
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
On the night of September 26th, 2014, a group of student protestors was attacked by policemen in the Mexican town of Iguala. Forty-three of these students were then kidna
In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked
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
"When the imagination reaches and oversteps the boundaries authorized by theinstitution of culture, we speak of poetry, of utopia.... When the event reaches and oversteps theboundaries authorized by j
"Now for the first time, Duvert's most highly crafted novel is available in English. Poetic, brutally frank, and outright shocking, Diary of an Innocent recounts the risky experiences of a sexual adve
First published in 1999, Gary Indiana's Three Month Fever is the second volume of his famed crime trilogy that is being republished by Semiotexte (following Resentment in
Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. To sta
Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my c
In Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, David Lapoujade offers one of the first comprehensive treatments of Deleuzian thought. Drawing on the entirety of