Books from Semiotext(e)
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Depraved Indifference
By Gary IndianaIf you had the right touch, if you knew how to press one button lightly and another button with a bit more force, you could make the emotional side of a person swing up and down as you wished. —from Depraved Indifference First published ...
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Social Practices
By Chris KrausMarnie Weber says, “I like to think about things beyond what you can see.” We're in her upstairs studio, sitting in front of her collage Woodland Creatures. This extraordinary piece, and its companion The Treehouse, is part of Weber's ...
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Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985–1988
By Gary IndianaRobert Hawkins's paintings are very much in the tradition of Ryder—and of Thomas Cole, who painted overgrown ruins to depict “The Course of Empire” in the 1830s, and Elihu Vedder, whose The Lair of the Sea Serpent (1864) shows an ...
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Looking Back on the End of the World
By Jean BaudrillardLooking Back on the End of the World raises provocative questions about the possibilities of critical knowledge in social systems that seem to have surpassed history.First published in 1989, Looking...
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Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By Cookie MuellerCookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet--from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from birthing Max to shooting Pink FlamingosCookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet--from...
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I Love Dick
By Chris Kraus"Oh Dick, I want to be an intellectual like you."In "I LOVE DICK," published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of "Aliens & Anorexia," "Torpor," and "Video Green," opened up an...
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Desert Islands: And Other Texts, 1953-1974
By Gilles DeleuzeA fascinating anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze."One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian," Michel Foucault once wrote. This book...
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Introduction to Kant's Anthropology
By Michel FoucaultFoucault's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tradition of philosophy.This introduction and commentary to Kant's least discussed...
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In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities--or the End of the Social: And Other Essays
By Jean BaudrillardThe whole chaotic constellation of the social revolves around that spongy reference, that opaque but equally translucent reality, that nothingness: the masses. A statistical crystal ball, the masses are 'swirling...
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Simulations
By Jean BaudrillardBaudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore...
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Imported: A Reading Seminar
By Rainer GanahlA Reading Seminar Rainer Ganahl. Jahr begann Hélène Cixous in ' Le rire de la Meduse ' [ ' Das Lachen der Medusa ' ] und einem anderen Essay , ' Sorties ' [ ' Auswege ' ] , darüber zu theoretisieren , was die Praxis einer écriture ...
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Germania
By Heiner MüllerReflections on the laws of history from the standpoint of someone straddling the Berlin Wall. Heiner Muller, East German author of Hamletmachine and Medea, was the preeminent German successor of...