Autonomia
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Autonomia
Post-Political Politics
Edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi7 x 10, 340 pp., 100 illus.
With a new introduction by Sylvère Lotringer, “In the Shadow of the Red Brigades”
Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails…. I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate of Autonomia. The survival of the last politically creative movement in the West was at stake, but no one in the United States seemed to realize that, or be willing to listen. Put together as events in Italy were unfolding, the Autonomia issue—which has no equivalent in Italy, or anywhere for that matter—arrived too late, but it remains an energizing account of a movement that disappeared without bearing a trace, but with a big future still ahead of it.
—Sylvère LotringerSemiotext(e) is reissuing in book form its legendary magazine issue Autonomia: Post-Political Politics,...
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The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman
Fred Barney TaylorMaestromedia is proud to announce the release of the two-disc DVD set, The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman. This 80-minute feature, directed by Fred Barney Taylor, is a cinematic portrait of this larger-than-life iconic figure.
The Polymath fluidly fuses meditative and experimental imagery, autobiographical anecdotes, family home movies, and literary excerpts to produce a stylized and highly unusual documentary. The film’s nonlinear structure follows Delany’s own use of autobiography, science-fiction, social criticism, pornography and semiotics. The film also features an appearance by novelist Jonathan Lethem.
The bonus disc contains 2 and 1/2 hours of never before seen Delany interviews and includes the full version of his film, The Orchid.
The Polymath debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007 and played to critical acclaim at LGBT film festivals in London,...
Read more about: The Polymath, or, Life & Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman »Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the Twe
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Endnotes, Vol. 1
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Endnotes Collective
Endnotes is a new journal from some people who previously participated in the autonomist / ultra-left magazine Aufheben.
Issue #1 entitled, “Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the Twentieth Century”, begins where the engagement between Aufheben and the French group Thèorie Communiste left off. It consists mainly of a debate between Gilles Dauvé and Thèorie Communiste addressing why the traditional workers’ movement failed to overcome capitalism, and what the restructuring of the 1970s means for class struggle and revolution today.
Contents
1. Bring Out Your Dead
2. When Insurrections Die, by Gilles Dauvé
3. Normative History… by Théorie Communiste
4. Human, All Too Human? by Gilles Dauvé
5. Love of Labour? Love of Labour Lost… by Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic
6. Much Ado About Nothing by Théorie Communiste
7. AfterwordShorts Are Wrong
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Shorts Are Wrong
Mike Topp“Mike Topp’s irreducible art consists partly of recycling expandable parts of speech and revealing their unused genius. Other parts are fixed, like the sly orthography. Topp is the Andy Warhol and Ralph Nader of literature.” — Andrei Codrescu
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“Just when I think Mike Topp’s poems are funny, they’re wise. Just when I think they’re wise, they’re bad. Just when I think they’re bad, they’re great. Mike Topp’s book is exactly like the world.” — Eileen Myles
“Constantly mistaken for an Italian underwear model, or a beerhall humorist, Mike Topp is, in fact, one of the most gifted Surrealzing writers, and a Taoist immortal.” — SparrowNew Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty
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“The project: to rescue ‘communism’ from its own disrepute. Once invoked as the liberation of work through mankind’s collective creation, communism has instead stifled humanity. We who see in communism the liberation of both collective and individual possibilities must reverse that regimentation of thought and desire which terminates the individual….”
Thus begins the extraordinary collaboration between Félix Guattari and Antonio Negri, written at dawn of the 1980s, in the wake of the crushing of the autonomous movements of the previous decade. Setting out Guattari and Negri diagnose with incisive prescience transformations of the global economy and theorize new forms of alliance and organization: mutant machines of subjectivation and social movement.
Prefiguring his collaboration with Michael Hardt, Negri and Guattari enact a singular hybridization of political and philosophical traditions, brining together psychiatry, political analysis, semiotics, aesthetics, and philosophy. Against the workings of an increasingly integrated world capitalism, they raise the banners of singularity, autonomy, and freedom to search out new routes for subversion....
Read more about: New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty »Aesthetics of Disappearance
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From infantile narcolepsy to the illusion of movement in speed, Virilio examines the “aesthetics” of disappearanceÑ in film, politics, war, the philosophy of subjectivity, and elsewhere.
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