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
A focused exploration of Baudrillard's understanding and use of alterity and "otherness," a crucial theme that appears and reappears throughout his work as a whole.
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
A novel that captures the glancing intersections of a loose group of artists and lawyers, restaurateurs, philosophers, wine-makers, and boxers.Composed between destinations, in cafes, museums, airplan
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
Masha Tupitsyn's Beauty Talk & Monsters is a debut collection of stories toldthrough the movies. Equally influenced by Brian De Palma and Kathy Acker, Tupitsyn revisits theruins of a childhood and
A moment later, Lacan is chattering with me, and giving me some crayons to draw with.-- from I, Little AsylumFounded in 1951 and renowned in theworld of psychiatry, the experimental psychiatric clinic
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
Poetic, sensuous and witty, Veronica Gonzalez's debut novel unfolds like a fairy tale spanning the dusty hills of Los Angeles and the glittering nightlife of Mexico City. Raised in northeast LA by her
Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and apl
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.
As any good magician or psychoanalyst knows, it's the deliberate chalking of a particular square that allows for the discovery of personal order and private mythology. -- fromThe Irresponsible Magicia
‧ 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
The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged from campus bulletin boards to Fox News
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
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
An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance. The cybernetician's mission is to combat the general entropy that threatens livin
The emergence of a geopolitical war scenario, establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control.In times of war the law is silent.—from Field of BattleField of
Depressed, cynical, and subversive, East Coaster Reginald Fortiphton has been brought to Seattle by a West Coast publishing company that wants him to write a guide to the American Northwest. His job
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?
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
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
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
From Brooklyn to Chavez Ravine, 50 years of New York and Los Angeles history collide in a mix of voices from three generations in this "living novel" by Heather Woodbury. In this second "living novel"
In 1970, at the age of twenty-five, Shulamith Firestone wrote and published The Dialectic of Sex, immediately becoming a classic of second wave feminism across the world to this very day. It was one
What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can af
An irreverent and lucid sojourn through the facetious, twisted burps we callsophisticated society, captured by the camera-quick and ruthless eye of the ever-vigilant thirdperson, Madame Realism. Each
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
Put together by Chris Kraus just before David Rattray's sudden death and published in1992, How I Became One of the Invisible has since circulated as a secret history and guide book tothe mystical-poet
In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus argues for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor "self-esteem."
An examination of the reactionary, individualist, cynical, and belligerent shift in global politics to the right, implemented both by the right and the establishment left.Systemic, euphemized, insidio
Like Alain-Robbe Grillet, Georges Perec, and the great Oulipo writers, Swiss writerJurg Laederach constructs seamless narratives based on sly compositional strategies.
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
Nina Zivancevic, a prominent Serbian poet, scholar, and translator, lived in lower Manhattan prior to the outbreak of the war in Sarajevo in 1992. Zivancevic introduced the work of Allan Ginsberg, Kat
