All history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.--fromGlobes In Globes -- the second, and longest,volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated magnum opus Spheres trilogy -- the author attemp
‧ A boarder for two years following a national funeral, Mirabeau is removedfrom the Pantheon and transferred to the cemetery of Clamart when his pornographic novels arediscovered ‧ A photograph taken
I believe that destiny is the hesitation between whorehouse writing and poetry, Eviland Good. In my body almost deadened to stupidity by its growing length, I am carrying that destiny.-- from In the D
Tony Duvert's novel Atlantic Island (originally published in French in 1979) takes place in the soul-crushing suburbs of a remote island off the coast of France. It is told through the shifting perspe
Often approached through their "micropolitics of desire," the joint works of Deleuze and Guattari are rarely part of the discussion when classical and contemporary problems of political thou
I read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible -- relation itself -- in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to "wake up" to the world, to recognize the world,
The animal of the molecular revolution will be neither mole nor snake, but a drone-animal-thing that is solid, liquid, and a gas. -- fromDividuumAs the philosophical, religious, and historical systems
Originally published in Italian in 2002, When the Word Becomes Flesh provides a compelling contribution to the understanding of language and its relation to human nature and social relationships. Adop
Originally published in French in 1972, Psychoanalysis and Transversality gathers all the articles that Felix Guattari wrote between 1955 and 1971. It provides a fascinating account of his intellectua
"Why am I telling you all this? Partly 'cause the whole queerness/identity thing for me stretches through everything, absolutely everything. Slipping between straight/gay is child's play comp
Experts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get back on a path
Was there some sort of accident? The Doll was now certain that the Japanese didn't consider him a human. He was concerned with Deary alone. Her flukes lifted to maintain her treading water, left her p
In this book, Franco Berardi presents an examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture - and a clarion call for a 'conspiracy of estranged people'.
This volume includes lengthy dialogues from 1979-1981 with Real conducted by journalist and author Jean-Luc Henning, in which she eloquently discusses the theoretical implications of sex-positive who
Iconoclastic and provocative, Sloterdijk is the most exciting and controversial German philosopher to appear on the world scene since Nietzsche and Heidegger. Like Nietzsche, Sloterdijk is convinced t
This new edition of Soft Subversions expands, reorganizes, and develops the original 1996 publication, offering a carefully organized arrangement of essays, interviews, and short texts that present a
FTlix Guattari lays the groundwork for a general pragmatics capable of resisting the semiotic enslavement of subjectivity. Concluding that psychoanalytic theory had become part and parcel of a repres
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
The idea of the Jewish nation was conceived before the organization of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century and continued long after the creation of the state of Israel. In The Words and th
It was the lies he told that reminded me of that past of mine that I hadn'tencountered in a while. He was telling me the kinds of lies where the teller implies that thingsthat have only happened to hi
