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A THOSAND MACHINES by RAUNIG GERALD
Category: History | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
The machine as a social movement of today's "precariat"--those whose labor and lives are precarious.In this "concise philosophy of the machine," Gerald Raunig provides a historical and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French philosophers F lix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze: t ...Show more
AUTONOMIA POST POLITICAL POLITICS by LOTRINGER ED.
Category: History | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails...I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate of Autonomia. The survival of the last politically creative movement in the West was at stake, but no ...Show more
Atta by Jarett Kobek; Hedi El Kholti
Category: History | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
A disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness. Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, "rogue states," jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neithe ...Show more
Breathing - Chaos and Poetry by Franco Bifo Berardi
Category: Culture | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
An analysis of contemporary semio-capitalism's overloading of subjectivity, leading to a deep mutation in the psychosphere.Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book is an analysis of changes our aesthetic and emotional sensibility has undergone recently--all the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the i ...Show more
Can the Monster Speak? - Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado; Frank Wynne (Translator)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
Paul Preciado's controversial 2019 lecture at the École de la Cause Freudienne annual conference, published in a definitive translation for the first time. In November 2019, Paul Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the École de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Par ...Show more
Capital Hates Everyone - Fascism or Revolution by Maurizio Lazzarato; Robert Hurley (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
Why we must reject the illusory consolations of technology and choose revolution over fascism. We are living in apocalyptic times. In Capital Hates Everyone, famed sociologist Maurice Lazzarato points to a stark choice emerging from the magma of today's world events: fascism or revolution. Fascism now d ...Show more
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Category: Culture | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the cre ...Show more
Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia; John Pluecker
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
"Death has become the most profitable business in existence." -- from Gore Capitalism Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, acro ...Show more
Governing by Debt by Maurizio Lazzarato
Category: History | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
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 to prosperity. Maurizio Lazzarato's diagnosis, however, is completely different: under capitalism, debt ...Show more
How the World Swung to the Right - Fifty Years of Counterrevolutions by François Cusset; Noura Wedell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
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, insidious and structural violence has increased. It is now objectively measurable by the gulf in revenues, by ...Show more
Immunodemocracy: Capitalist Asphyxia by DONATELLA DI CESARE
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
A stimulating and profound portrayal of the epochal event that has already left its mark on the twenty-first century.Immunodemocracy offers a stimulating and profound portrayal of the epochal event that has already left its mark on the twenty-first century. Moving from the ecological question to the rul ...Show more
Now by The Invisible Committee; Robert Hurley (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
A new political critique from the authors of The Coming Insurrection, calling for a "destituent process" of outright refusal and utter indifference to government. Now is the phantom chapter to the Invisible Committee's previous book, To Our Friends: a new critique from the anonymous collective that est ...Show more