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  • The Personality of Power

    A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    “I am the Chosen One!” With this exclamation Donald Trump crowns the national exceptionalism his base upholds with a claim of personal exceptionalism. He leaves no doubt as to the emotional note: “I am your vengeance!” He personifies reaction for the masses. Except, in today’s microsegmented social media environment the “masses” no longer exist. Fascism’s cultural conditions have shifted. In The ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Ontopower

    War, Powers, and the State of Perception

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time. Security threats, regardless of the existence of credible ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value

    A Postcapitalist Manifesto

    by Brian Massumi ...
    A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future formsHow can we begin to envision a postcapitalist economy without first engineering a radically new concept of value? And with a renewed sense of how and what we collectively value, what would the transition to new social forms look like? According to Brian Massumi, it is time to reclaim value from the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Parables for the Virtual

    Movement, Affect, Sensation

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Politics of Affect

    by Brian Massumi ...
    'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from being enclosed in the interiority of a subject, affect concerns an immediate participation in the events of the world. It is about ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Thought in the Act

    Passages in the Ecology of Experience

    by Erin Manning, Brian Massumi ...
    “Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the ActCombining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Semblance and Event

    Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An investigation of the “occurrent arts” through the concepts of the “semblance” and “lived abstraction.”Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on the work of William James, Alfred ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Shock to Thought

    Expression after Deleuze and Guattari

    by Brian Massumi ...
    A Shock to Thought brings together essays that explore Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of expression in a number of contemporary contexts. It will be of interest to all those in philosophy, cultural studies and art theory. The volume also contains an interview with Guattari which clearly restates the 'aesthetic paradigm' that organizes both his and Deleuze's work. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Architectures of the Unforeseen

    Essays in the Occurrent Arts

    by Brian Massumi ...
    A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativityBringing the creative process of three contemporary artists into conversation, Architectures of the Unforeseen stages an encounter between philosophy and art and design. Its gorgeous prose invites the reader to think along with Brian Massumi as he thoroughly embodies the work of these ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • What Animals Teach Us about Politics

    by Brian Massumi ...
    In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the "primitive" state of nature and the accompanying presuppositions about instinct permeating modern thought. Massumi ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Power at the End of the Economy

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Rational self-interest is often seen as being at the heart of liberal economic theory. In The Power at the End of the Economy Brian Massumi provides an alternative explanation, arguing that neoliberalism is grounded in complex interactions between the rational and the emotional. Offering a new theory of political economy that refuses the liberal prioritization of individual choice, Massumi ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Couplets

    Travels in Speculative Pragmatism

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    In Couplets, Brian Massumi presents twenty-four essays that represent the full spectrum of his work during the past thirty years. Conceived as a companion volume to Parables for the Virtual, Couplets addresses the key concepts of Parables from different angles and contextualizes them, allowing their stakes to be more fully felt. Rather than organizing the essays chronologically or by topic, ... Read more

    $24.49 USD