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: 1635901375

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...

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...

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...

Hervé Guibert's incandescent correspondence with Belgian poet Eugène Savitzkaya. In 1977, Hervé Guibert discovered the first novel written by Eugène Savitzkaya, Mentir, and sent him his La mort...

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 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...

A theoretical dissection of capitalism's ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl.The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She...

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...

Author: Chris KrausPublisher: Semiotext(E)Publication Date: Oct 30, 2018Number of Pages: 296 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635900395ISBN-13: 9781635900392

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...

Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition."The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say,...

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...

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

The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black,...