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.
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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Burroughs Live gathers all the interviews, both published and unpublished, given by William Burroughs, as well as conversations with well-known writers, artists, and musicians such as Tenessee Willia
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
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
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
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
The most accessible and exhaustive introduction to Foucault's thought to date, including every extant interview made by Foucault from the mid-60s until his death in 1984.
Emerging from New York's Lower East Side in the city's early 1980s No Wave scene, the "Cinema of Transgression" aimed at outright shock, provocation and confrontation. Young filmmakers such as Richard
In 1784, the German newspaper Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its audience to replyto the question "What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant took the opportunity to investigate thepurported truths and as
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
Chaosophy is an introduction to Felix Guattari's groundbreaking theories of"schizo-analysis": a process meant to replace Freudian interpretation with a morepragmatic, experimental, and collective appr
Published one year after Forget Foucault, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1978) may be the most important sociopolitical manifesto of the twentieth century: it calls for nothing less than the
In February 1991, the artist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) and the philosopher Sylvere Lotringer met in a borrowed East Village apartment to conduct a long-awaited dialogue on Wojnarowicz's work. Woj
Still Black Still Strong is an essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI'S 1969 mandate to destroy the organ
