Semiotext(E)

On the internet's transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure. The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still effective in the...

The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog. Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay...

A ?dissident of the gender-sex binary system? reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet...

A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness. Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press releases Stagg has been commissioned to write,...

Paul Preciado's controversial 2019 lecture at the École de la Cause Freudienne annual conference, published in a definitive translation for the first time. In November 2019, Paul Preciado was invited...

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...

Castle Faggot (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)Author: Derek MccormackPublisher: Semiotext(e)Publication Date: Nov 24, 2020Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A dark yet compassionate comedy of art aspirations and friendships come to naught. First published in 2003, Gary Indiana?s turn-of-the-millennium novel traces the lives of a loosely connected group...

A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long-awaited...

An early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard.When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for...

Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings together...

A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA?s most influential artists of subsequent decades. When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017,...

A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration.In I Love Dick,...

The tempestuous email correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, shimmering with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary."Why am I telling you all this? Partly 'cause the whole...

Baudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations.Published one year after Forget Foucault, In the Shadow of the Silent...

A touchstone novel of lesbian adolescence, set years before gay liberation. "Dear Miss Maxfield ... what I'm really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I...

A memoir of a friendship with Michel Foucault that changed the author's life. ?I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or...

A novel of lesbian identity and motherhood, and the societal pressures that place them in opposition. The daughter of an illustrious French family whose members include a former Prime Minister, a...

A rumination on survival, queer aging, and estrangement that was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. My dead friends are back. I lie in bed at night and see them. Haunted by insomnia...

A love letter to Paris and a meditation on how it has changed in two decades, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital. Your telephone is precious. It may be...

Now (Semiotext(E) / Intervention Series)Author: The Invisible CommitteePublisher: Semiotext(E)Publication Date: Oct 20, 2017Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

McKenzie Wark invents a new genre for another gender: not a memoir but an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self. Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it?...

A novel about escape and connection, class, sex, and queer intimacy in the American Midwest. The oldest story: an insider pretends to be an outsider and receives praise for his empathy and...

The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(E) / Intervention Series)Author: The Invisible CommitteePublisher: Semiotext(E)Publication Date: May 15, 2009Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los Angeles. Published in excerpts over almost four decades, Jack Skelley?s ?secretly legendary? novel...

Author: Eileen MylesPublisher: Semiotext(e)Publication Date: Jul 01, 2009Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1584350660ISBN-13: 9781584350668

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,...

A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more.Borrowing...

A manifesto against the concepts of growth and debt, and a call for a reinvestment in the social body.The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today's precarious times, and a rallying cry in the...

To Our Friends (Semiotext(E) / Intervention Series)Author: Invisible Committee, The Invisible CommitteePublisher: Semiotext(E)Publication Date: Apr 17, 2015Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage:...