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

Foucault's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tra...

A posthumous collection of writings by Deleuze, including letters, youthful essays, and an interview, many previously unpublished.Letters and Other...

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari redefine the relation between the state and its war machine. Far from being a part of the state, warriers (the ar...

Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical visi...

The influential Italian thinker offers three essays in the political philosophy of language.Multitude between Innovation and Negation by Paolo Virn...

An early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard.When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point f...

A memoir and a meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locked in political closets.On thinking the matter through,...

In this collection of essays and interviews from 1970-72, Jean-François Lyotard explores and drifts, as we drift, between art and politics, the "fi...

The first English translation of a foundational work in cinema studies and the philosophy of film.When it was first published in French in 1980, Th...

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

A focused exploration of Baudrillard's understanding and use of alterity and “otherness,” a crucial theme that appears and reappears throughout his...

Virilio introduces his understanding of "picnolepsy"—the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed.Virilio himself referred to his 1980 wo...

With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution.Speed and Politics (first published i...

The post-'68 psychoanalyst and philosopher visits a newly democratic Brazil in 1982 and meets future President Luis Ignacia Lula da Silva: a guide ...

Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Miche...

Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in “primitive societies.” The war machine is the motor of the social machine;...

An analysis of how Mitterand came to power in France and how political power seduced the French Left and became a simulacrum.First published in Fre...

A collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, the sexuation of language, the symbolic order, a...

A series of dialogues with the most exciting and controversial German philosopher writing today.Peter Sloterdijk first became known in this country...

An early work that lays the foundation for establishing a “polemical” dimension to psychoanalysis.We certainly have the unconscious that we deserve...

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