Författare: Brian Massumi

’The capacity to affect and to be affected’. This simple definition opens a world of questions – by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be …

’The capacity to affect and to be affected’. This simple definition opens a world of questions – by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be …

Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thi …

This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its …

A Shock to Thought brings together essays that explore Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of expression in a number of contemporary contexts. It will be of interest to all those in philosophy, cultura …

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A Shock to Thought brings together essays that explore Deleuze and Guattari”s philosophy of expression in a number of contemporary contexts. It will be of interest to all those in philosophy, cultur …

A Shock to Thought brings together essays that explore Deleuze and Guattari”s philosophy of expression in a number of contemporary contexts. It will be of interest to all those in philosophy, cultur …

L’orthodoxie economiste s’obstine a imposer le modele d’un individu decideur rationnel, qui maximise ses revenus a force de calculs regis par le souci de son interet bien entendu. Operant un changeme …

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How do we make ourselves a Whiteheadian proposition? This question exposes the multivalent connections between postmodern thought and Whitehead’s philosophy, with particular attention to his understa …

An investigation of the "occurrent arts" through the concepts of the "semblance" and "lived abstraction."Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experien …

Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on T …

Rational self-interest is often seen as being at the heart of liberal economic theory. In The Power at the End of the Economy Brian Massumi provides an alternative explanation, arguing that neolibera …

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a huma …

Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence-movement, affect, and s …

This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces beneat …