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Breathing - Chaos and Poetry by Franco Bifo Berardi
$33.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
An analysis of contemporary semio-capitalism's overloading of subjectivity, leading to a deep mutation in the psychosphere.Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book is an analysis of changes our aesthetic and emotional sensibility has undergone recently--all the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the i ...Show more
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
$37.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the cre ...Show more
Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia; John Pluecker
$32.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
"Death has become the most profitable business in existence." -- from Gore Capitalism Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, acro ...Show more
Governing by Debt by Maurizio Lazzarato
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Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
Experts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get back on a path to prosperity. Maurizio Lazzarato's diagnosis, however, is completely different: under capitalism, debt ...Show more
How the World Swung to the Right - Fifty Years of Counterrevolutions by François Cusset; Noura Wedell
$35.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
An examination of the reactionary, individualist, cynical, and belligerent shift in global politics to the right, implemented both by the right and the establishment left. Systemic, euphemized, insidious and structural violence has increased. It is now objectively measurable by the gulf in revenues, by ...Show more
Nietzsche Apostle by Peter Sloterdijk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a "catastrophe in the history of language" -- a new evangelist for a linguistics of narcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a philosophical declaration of independence from humility, a meeting-point of sobriety and megalomania that ...Show more
Now by The Invisible Committee; Robert Hurley (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
A new political critique from the authors of The Coming Insurrection, calling for a "destituent process" of outright refusal and utter indifference to government. Now is the phantom chapter to the Invisible Committee's previous book, To Our Friends: a new critique from the anonymous collective that est ...Show more
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl by Ariana Reines
$27.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality.--from Theory of the Young-Girl First published in France in 1999, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl dissects the impossibil ...Show more
The Administration of Fear by Paul Virilio
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Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
We are living under the administration of fear: fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape. There was a time when wars, famines, and epidemics were localized and limited by a certain timeframe. Today, it is the world itself that is limited, saturated, and manipulated, the world itself that se ...Show more
The Agony of Power by BAUDRILLARD JEAN
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Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
Baudrillard's unsettling coda: previously unpublished texts written just before the visionary theorist's death in 2007.History that repeats itself turns to farce. But a farce that repeats itself ends up making a history.--from The Agony of PowerIn these previously unpublished manuscripts written just be ...Show more
The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee
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Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it. --from "The Coming Insurrection""The Coming Insurrecti ...Show more
The Making of the Indebted Man - Essay Om the Neoliberal Condition by Maurizio Lazzarato; Joshua David Jordan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Ser.
A new and radical reexamination of today's neoliberalist "new economy" through the political lens of the debtor/creditor relation. "The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinctio ...Show more