Semiotext(e)

Paolo Virno on the rich concept of the “multitude” as crucial to understanding contemporary life.Paolo Virno’s A Grammar of the Multitude became th...

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...

One of the first comprehensive treatments of Deleuzian thought.There is always something schizophrenic about logic in Deleuze, which represents ano...

The first authorized biography of postmodernism's literary hero, Kathy Acker.Acker's life was a fable; and to describe the confusion and love and c...

On the internet's transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure.The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so on...

Short stories set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized pov...

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 novel about failure, empathy, and sadness, with a cast of characters that includes Simone Weil, Paul Thek, and the author herself. First publishe...

A Situationist International roman à clef, written by Guy Debord's first wife, a founder of the movement and one of its influential thinkers.“What ...

A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalis...

An autobiographical portrait of a gay Arab man, living between cultures, seeking an identity through love and writing.I had to rediscover who I was...

An intimate memoir of growing up inside legendary Parisian publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit.I wanted to tell the story of Les Éditions de Mi...

The changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility: a deep mutation in the psychosphere, caused by semio-capitalism.Franco “Bifo” ...

Tales of life in North Africa that flirt with strategies of revelation and concealment, by the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco.T...

On the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno's addendum to Book of Mutter.“I came up with the idea of writing these notes, or talks, out...

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

A philosopher and art theorist extends the poststructuralist theory of revolution to the nexus of art and activism.Gerald Raunig has written an alt...

A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press...

A forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert's version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class comm...

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...

The only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West, the creative, futuristic, n...

A collection of stories told through the movies that revisits the lower Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetown in the 1980s.Mas...