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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
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
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl by Ariana Reines
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
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 Theory of the Young-Girl First published in France in 1999, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl dissects the impossibil ...Show more
The Agony of Power by BAUDRILLARD JEAN
Category: Culture | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
Baudrillard's unsettling coda: previously unpublished texts written just before the visionary theorist's death in 2007.History that repeats itself turns to farce. But a farce that repeats itself ends up making a history.--from The Agony of PowerIn these previously unpublished manuscripts written just be ...Show more
The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Category: Culture | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today's precarious times, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalism and the financial sphere have established over the globe. In his newest book, Franco "Bifo" Berardi argues that the notion of economic recov ...Show more
The Violence of Financial Capitalism by Christian Marazzi
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
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 new edition has been updated to reflect recent events, up to and including the G20 summit in July 2010 and the ...Show more
This is Not a Program by Tiqqun
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
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 individual case, it would be possible to differentiate. The front line no longer cuts through the middle of society; it n ...Show more
To Our Friends by The Invisible Committee
Category: History | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
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. Seven years later, The Invisible Committee follows up their premonitory manifesto with a new book, To ...Show more
Where Art Belongs by Chris Kraus
Category: Art | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In four interlinked essays, Kraus expands the argument begun in her earlier book Video Green that "the art world is interesting only insofar ...Show more
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