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A new collection of essays from Dodie Bellamy on disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working-class life, aesthetic values, and profound embarra...

The short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), a significant figure in modernism.Fir...

A fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother.Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, ...

A novel in essays that locates a “romance” within the mesh of electronic communication.So I didn't call you: instead I posted a new avatar of mysel...

The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy.Since the hope...

The first career retrospective of activist photographer Brian Weil, whose work and practice explored insular cultures.This book offers the first ca...

The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk's monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity's engagement with intimate spaces.An epic project i...

A clear-eyed critique of collegiate jurisprudence, as the process of administering student protests and sexual-assault complaints rolls along a Möb...

Paul Preciado's controversial 2019 lecture at the École de la Cause Freudienne annual conference, published in a definitive translation for the fir...

Christian Marazzi's first book: a post-Fordist classic on the roots to economic crises in the contemporary age.Communication as work: we have recen...

A major theorist in the Italian postfordist movement offers a radical new understanding of the current international economic situation.The Swiss-I...

Why we must reject the illusory consolations of technology and choose revolution over fascism.We are living in apocalyptic times. In Capital Hates ...

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees a...

A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.Castle Faggot is D...

Groundbreaking essays that introduce Guattari's theories of “schizo-analysis,” in an expanded edition.Chaosophy is an introduction to Félix Guattar...

Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of ...

A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century.Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverbe...

The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I ...

What if capitalism and its social machine were the outcome of a conspiratorial strategy?What if capitalism and its social machine were the outcome ...

Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist Internat...

Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love.In the middle of the night between the 25...

The "genetic bomb" marks a turn in the history of humanity. The accident is a new form of warfare. It is replacing revolution and war. Sarajevo tri...

Exit strategies from the current financial crisis that may lead us toward a new horizon of constructing the common.Crisis in the Global Economy is ...

A writer casts an acerbic, queer eye on the greats and the not-so-greats of Hollywood's Golden Age. Ronnie Reagan's bizarre legs are sufficient rea...