Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader

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Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and American fiction published in the Foreign Agents and Native Agents series over the last 15 years. Texts by Kathy Acker, Gilles Deleuze and F lix Guattari, Shulamith Firestone, Eileen Myles, Tony Negri, Michelle Tea, Paul Virillio, and others attack questions of madness and capitalism, speed and subjectivity, global flows, and hyperreality. This collection of work presents models of radical subjectivity in theory and practice.

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Slyly compiled, this anthology brings together fiction, narrative, philosophy, and critical theory without imposing a hierarchy among genres.

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Founded in 1974 as an independent, not-for-profit press, Semiotext(e) is largely credited with having introduced "French Theory" to America. Its influential series of small, black Foreign Agents volumes have featured original essays by Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Paul Virilio, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Luce Irigaray, Felix Guattari, and others. Semiotext(e) traces a distinct path between Europe and America, academe and the artworld, philosophy and art, and politics and the sciences.