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Peter Sloterdijk's essay on Friedrich Nietzsche and the benefits and dangers of narcissistic jubilation. For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche ...

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

A scathing critique of the Left from an indigenous anti-colonial perspective.Why am I writing this book? Because I share Gramsci's anxiety: “The ol...

A new interview with the philosopher of speed, addressing the ways in which technology is utilized in synchronizing mass emotions.We are living und...

A manifesto against the concepts of growth and debt, and a call for a reinvestment in the social body.The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for t...

A theoretical dissection of capitalism's ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl.The Young-Girl is not always young; m...

An account and analysis of the systematic murder of women and girls in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez.In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial pow...

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

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

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

An updated edition of a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis from a postfordist perspective.The 2010 English-language edition of Chri...

Baudrillard's unsettling coda: previously unpublished texts written just before the visionary theorist's death in 2007.History that repeats itself ...

A well-researched and powerfully argued account of the disappearance of forty-three students and an analysis of the cruelty that normalizes atrocit...

An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance.The cybernetician's mission is ...

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

The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022.From time immemorial, humanity has had to organize their “metabolism with ...

The machine as a social movement of today's “precariat”—those whose labor and lives are precarious.In this “concise philosophy of the machine,” Ger...

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

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

The emergence of a geopolitical war scenario, establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control.In times o...

A new and radical reexamination of today's neoliberalist “new economy” through the political lens of the debtor/creditor relation."The debtor-credi...

A disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness.Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass m...

With the economy deindustrialized and the working class decentralized, a call for alternative horizons for resistance: the university and the art w...