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Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's concept of modulation as the market-driven imperative for the constant transformation and reinvention of subjectivity, in \u003ci\u003eFactories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e, Raunig charts alternative horizons for resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking at recent social struggles including the university strikes in Europe, the Spanish Democracia real YA  organization, the Arab revolts, and the Occupy movement, Raunig argues for a reassessment of the importance of cultural and knowledge production. 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In this volume Gerald Raunig not only develops a conceptual ecology of concepts of joining and jointing, but also undertakes an experiment in theoretical form. Semi-fictional interweaves with meticulously researched historical sources, mystical writings with letters from friends, philosophical fragments with poetic ritornellos. More than a narrative about dissemblages from social surrounds, thing-worlds, and ghost-worlds, the book itself is a dividual multiplicity in form and content, out of joint, in the joints, dissemblage.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744571957521,"sku":"NGR9781570274060","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1570274061.jpg?v=1750830202"},{"product_id":"thousand-machines-book-gerald-raunig-9781584350859","title":"A Thousand Machines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe machine as a social movement of today's precariat--those whose labor and lives are precarious.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this concise philosophy of the machine, Gerald Raunig provides a historical and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French philosophers F lix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze: the machine, not as a technical device and apparatus, but as a social composition and concatenation. This conception of the machine as an arrangement of technical, bodily, intellectual, and social components subverts the opposition between man and machine, organism and mechanism, individual and community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from an unusual range of films, literature, and performance--from the role of bicycles in Flann O'Brien's fiction to Vittorio de Sica's Neorealist film \u003ci\u003eThe Bicycle Thieve\u003c\/i\u003es, and from Karl Marx's Fragment on Machines to the deus ex machina of Greek drama--Raunig arrives at an enhanced conception of the machine as a social movement, finding its most apt and concrete manifestation in the Euromayday movement, which since 2001 has become a transnational activist and discursive practice focused upon the precarious nature of labor and lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49943582507281,"sku":"CIN1584350857G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51588522017041,"sku":"GOR005417369","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51889224581393,"sku":"GOR010627132","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52407838146833,"sku":"NLS9781584350859","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1584350857.jpg?v=1750862711"},{"product_id":"dividuum-book-gerald-raunig-9781584351801","title":"Dividuum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaunig develops a philosophy of dividuality as a way of addressing contemporary modes of production and forms of life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe animal of the molecular revolution will be neither mole nor snake, but a drone-animal-thing that is solid, liquid, and a gas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eDividuum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the philosophical, religious, and historical systems that have produced the individual (and its counterparts, society and community) over the years continue to break down, the age of dividuality is now upon us. The roots of the concept of the dividuum can be traced back to Latin philosophy, when Cicero used the term to translate the divisible in the writings of Epicurus and Plato; later, medieval scholars utilized the term in theological discussions on the unity of the trinity. Grounding himself in the writings of the medieval bishop Gilbert de Poitiers and his extensive commentaries on Boethius, Gerald Raunig charts a genealogy of the concept and develops a philosophy of dividuality as a way of addressing contemporary modes of production and forms of life. Through its components of dispersion, subsistence, and similarity, dividuality becomes a hidden principle of obedience and conformity, but it also brings with it the potential to realize disobedience and noncompliant con\/dividualities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaunig's bad news is that dividuality is responsible for much of the intensified exploitation and enslavement taking place under contemporary machinic capitalism. Algorithms, derivatives, big data, and social media technology all contribute to the rampant expansion of divisive management strategies and desires for self-division. The good news, however, is that this same terrain of dividuality presents an opportunity for a new kind of resistance, one that can be realized in the form of con\/division.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50204008055057,"sku":"GOR010763002","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50391785570577,"sku":"CIN1584351802G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1584351802.jpg?v=1751342522"},{"product_id":"making-multiplicity-book-gerald-raunig-9781509562848","title":"Making Multiplicity","description":"In this poetical-philosophical manifesto, Gerald Raunig develops a materialist philosophy of multiplicity. 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