Semiotext(e)

A novel set in post-9/11 New York City about a supermodel and the ultimate Broadway blockbuster.Set in post-9/11 New York City, Reena Spaulings was...

In a novel capturing an era that seems at once familiar and grotesque, a New York writer lands in Los Angeles in 1994.Originally published in 1997,...

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,...

McKenzie Wark invents a new genre for another gender: not a memoir but an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self.Another genre for another gen...

Julia Kristeva extends the definition of revolt beyond politics per se.May '68 in France expressed a fundamental version of freedom: not freedom to...

Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed...

A novel about escape and connection, class, sex, and queer intimacy in the American Midwest.The oldest story: an insider pretends to be an outsider...

An autobiographical coming-of-age novel by the the “only gay man” in Morocco.An autobiographical novel by turn naïve and cunning, funny and moving,...

Never-before-published lectures, Q&As, and squabbles from the conference that introduced French theory into America, with a facsimile of the jo...

How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amaz...

A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.An enchanting roll of ...

A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Björk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps ...

How the work of Israeli writers today reflects the foundation myths of a Jewish state.The idea of the Jewish nation was conceived before the organi...

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

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...

Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition....

Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a ne...

A report on the administration of deviant desire in specialized clinics that documents the way our postmodern society exposes sexuality to the poin...

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...

The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.Co...

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...