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A playful, personal, and profound interview with Gilles Deleuze, covering topics from “Animal” to “Zigzag.”Although Gilles Deleuze never wanted a f...

The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization.All history ...

A scathing view of sex manuals for children and society's hypocrisy of over sex that argues for the rights of children to their own bodies and thei...

An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.“Death has become the most profitable bu...

An argument that under capitalism, debt has become infinite and unpayable, expressing a political relation of subjection and enslavement.Experts, p...

A new novel from the celebrated author of Surveys, set in the Michigan suburbs of the early 2000s.Installed alongside the Grand River in downtown G...

The life, times, and mysteries of Fred Halsted, gay porn's first film auteur, in a new, updated, and expanded edition.Fred Halsted’s L.A. Plays Its...

A collection of early and not-so-early work by the mistress of gut-level fiction-making.You can say I write stories with sex and violence and there...

A privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith.Best kno...

Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an...

A feminist paean to perversity: on remaking intimacy outside the Republic of Gender.Seasonal begins writing sentences and thinking thoughts they ne...

A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than ...

On Hervé Guibert and the difficulty of writing and speaking about someone beloved and revered.“Soon that was my nickname for Hervé, what with my ha...

The only collection of Rattray's prose: essays that offer a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition.In order to bec...

An examination of the reactionary, individualist, cynical, and belligerent shift in global politics to the right, implemented both by the right and...

The first English-language publication of writings by the collective artist Claire Fontaine, addressing our complicity with anything that limits ou...

A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA’s most influential artists of subsequent decades.W...

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 p...

A long-form dialogue—on cinema and survival—with the visionary French filmmaker.The virtuous always engage in a pseudoreligious morality. But there...

The tempestuous email correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, shimmering with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary.“Why am I...

A lyrical account of a childhood spent in a castle disguised as a psychiatric clinic, written by the daughter of Félix Guattari.A moment later, Lac...

The trailblazing book that influenced a generation of writers, and proves that mature reflection needn’t be lacking in attitude.In the beginning wh...

A stimulating and profound portrayal of the epochal event that has already left its mark on the twenty-first century.Immunodemocracy offers a stimu...

An autobiographical incantation of adolescent shame, religious masturbation, and the salvation embodied in the creative act.I believe that destiny ...