The Swiss-Italian economist Christian Marazzi is one of the core theorists of the Italian postfordist movement, along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, and Bifo (Franco Berardi). But although his work
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 title features texts and interviews from the period that saw the publication of Deleuze's major works. Covering the last twenty years of Gilles Deleuze's life (1975-1995), the texts and interview
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
You can say I write stories with sex and violence and therefore my writing isn'tworth considering because it uses content much less lots of content. Well, I tell you this: 'Pricklyrace, who know nothi
In this daring essay inspired by Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattariredefine the relation between the state and its war machine. Far from being a part of the state,warriers (the army) are nom
A cult novel in France, this sci-fi thriller is now being made into a movie byMathieu Kassovitz. Set in the hidden "flesh and chip" breeding grounds of the first cyborgcommunities and peopled by Serbi
Elizabeth LeComte: Alright, I want to know something and I want the straight dope.Were you ever in the sack with this guy?Ann Rower: With [Timothy] Leary?Willem Dafoe: Oh, here itis... "Ann and I ambl
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
In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus argues for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor "self-esteem."
The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, Rene Lourau, and Catherine Co
A collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, the sexuation of language, the symbolic order, and the importance of both history and philosophy for
Los Angeles writer and artist Bob Flanagan created performances with Sheree Rose that shocked and inspired audiences. He combined text, video, and live performance to create a highly personal but uni
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
An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-pageSpheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time. Rejecting the century'spredominant phi
"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
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:
Michele Bernstein's first novel, All the King's Horses (1960), is one of the odder and more elusive, entertaining, and revealing documents of the Situationist International. At the instigation of her
Leash extends the logic of S&M to its inexorable and startling conclusion, darklyand hilariously revealing the masochistic impulse as the urge to disappear from the chores,obligations, and emotion
One day, I was not famous, the next day, I was almost famous and the temptation to go wide with that and reject my past was too great. When I was legit famous, it was hard to tell when the change had
Like Alain-Robbe Grillet, Georges Perec, and the great Oulipo writers, Swiss writerJurg Laederach constructs seamless narratives based on sly compositional strategies.
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.
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
From 1993-96, artist Rainer Ganahl held six reading seminars with six different bibliographies in six different countries and entitled this public project; "IMPORTED -- A READING SEMINAR, Or How
Yesterday, the police interrogated me at length about the journal and otherSituationist organizations. It was only a beginning. This is, I think, one of the principal threatsthat came up quickly durin
When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory
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
Now is the phantom chapter to the Invisible Committee's previous book, To Our Friends: a new critique from the anonymous collective that establishes their opposition to the world of capital and its l
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
This collection of Felix Guattari's essays, lectures, and interviews traces the militant anti-psychiatrist and theorist's thought and activity throughout the 1980s ("the winter years"). Concepts such
This dialogue about depression and culture constitutes Canadian author Eldon Garnet's "confessions" as a failed cultural critic who, after writing all his life, is faced once again with the desire. Aw
