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The Aesthetics of Disappearance (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)Virilio introduces his understanding of "picnolepsy" -- the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed. -
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The German Issue (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America. -
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A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)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 thinker Paolo Virno argues that the category of "multitude," elaborated by... -
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Fatal Strategies (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)An early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard. -
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Utopie: Texts and Projects, 1967--1978 (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)Key writings and projects from the group of architects, sociologists, and urbanists known as Utopie. -
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Terror from the Air (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)Terrorism as the matrix of modern and postmodern war, from Ypres to Auschwitz, from the bombing of Dresden to the attack on the World Trade Center. -
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I Love Dick (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration. -
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Speed and Politics (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)Speed and Politics (first published in France in 1977) is the matrix of Virilio's entire work. Building on the works of Morand, Marinetti, and McLuhan, Virilio presents a vision more radically political than that of any of his French contemporaries:... -
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Pacific Agony (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)An acidic, satiric novel in the form of a travelogue of the American northwest, complete with annotations by an outraged local. -
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Salvation Army (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)An autobiographical coming-of-age novel by the the "only gay man" in Morocco. -
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Beauty Talk and Monsters (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)Masha Tupitsyn's Beauty Talk & Monsters is a debut collection of stories as told through the movies. Equally influenced by Brian De Palma and Kathy Acker, Tupitsyn revisits the ruins of a childhood and youth nurtured on the fringe of the glittering ... -
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Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) ReaderCompiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings together highlights of Semiotext(e)'s most beloved and prescient works. Semiotext(e)'s three-decade history mirrors the history of American thought. Founded by French... -
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Desert Islands: and Other Texts, 1953--1974 (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)"One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian," Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who died in 1995. The early texts, from 1953-1966 (on... -
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The Agony of Power (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)Baudrillard's unsettling coda: previously unpublished texts written just before the visionary theorist's death in 2007. -
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A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)The machine as a social movement of today's "precariat"--those whose labor and lives are precarious. -
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