{"title":"Sylvère Lotringer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"schizo-culture-book-david-morris-9781584351245","title":"Schizo-Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNever-before-published lectures, Q\u0026amp;As, and squabbles from the conference that introduced French theory into America, with a facsimile of the journal issue that emerged from it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think schizo-culture here is being used rather in a special sense. Not referring to clinical schizophrenia, but to the fact that the culture is divided up into all sorts of classes and groups, etc., and that some of the old lines are breaking down. And that this is a healthy sign. \u003cbr\u003e--William Burroughs, from \u003ci\u003eSchizo-Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe legendary 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, conceived by the early Semiotext(e) collective, began as an attempt to introduce the then-unknown radical philosophies of post-'68 France to the American avant-garde. The event featured a series of seminal papers, from Deleuze's first presentation of the concept of the rhizome to Foucault's introduction of his \u003ci\u003eHistory of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e project. The conference was equally important on a political level, and brought together a diverse group of activists, thinkers, patients, and ex-cons in order to address the challenge of penal and psychiatric institutions. The combination proved to be explosive, but amid the fighting and confusion Schizo-Culture revealed deep ruptures in left politics, French thought, and American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Schizo-Culture issue of the Semiotext(e) journal came three years later. Designed by a group of artists and filmmakers including Kathryn Bigelow and Denise Green, it documented the chaotic creativity of an emerging downtown New York scene, and offered interviews with artists, theorists, writers, and No Wave and pre-punk musicians together with new texts from Deleuze, Foucault, R. D. Laing, and other conference participants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis slip-cased edition includes \u003ci\u003eThe Book: 1978\u003c\/i\u003e, a facsimile reproduction of the original Schizo-Culture publication; and \u003ci\u003eThe Event: 1975\u003c\/i\u003e, a previously unpublished and comprehensive record of the conference that set it all off. It assembles many previously unpublished texts, including a detailed selection of interviews reconstructing the events, and features F lix Guattari, William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Michel Foucault, Sylv re Lotringer, Guy Hocquenghem, Gilles Deleuze, John Rajchman, Robert Wilson, Joel Kovel, Jack Smith, Jean-Fran ois Lyotard, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Fran ois Peraldi, and John Cage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50259407012113,"sku":"GOR013901104","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50572459639057,"sku":"NGR9781584351245","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50627620765969,"sku":"CIN1584351241G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1584351241.jpg?v=1751150020"},{"product_id":"mad-like-artaud-book-sylvre-lotringer-9781937561413","title":"Mad Like Artaud","description":"Those who are mad like Antonin Artaud, are they just as mad as he was? Madness, like the plague, is contagious, and everyone, from his psychiatrists to his disciples, family, and critics, everyone who gets close to Artaud, seems to participate in his delirium. SylvÈre Lotringer explores various embodiments of this shared delirium through what Artaud called “mental dramas”-a series of confrontations with his witnesses or “persecutors” where we uncover the raw delirium at work, even in Lotringer himself. Mad Like Artaud does not intend to add one more layer of commentary to the bitter controversies that have been surrounding the cursed poet’s work since his death in 1948, nor does it take sides among the different camps who are still haggling over his corpse. This book speaks of the site where “madness” itself is simmering.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395341947153,"sku":"CIN1937561410G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1937561410.jpg?v=1767093779"},{"product_id":"overexposed-book-sylvere-lotringer-9781584350453","title":"Overexposed","description":"There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the optically correct is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. Instead, they've masked this failure with commercial success. This accident is provoking a reversal of values. In my view, this is positive: the accident reveals something important we would not otherwise know how to perceive.--Paul Virilio, The Accident of Art\u003cp\u003eUrbanist and technological theorist Paul Virilio trained as a painter, studying under Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Bazaine and de Stael. In The Accident of Art, his third extended conversation with Sylv re Lotringer, Virilio addresses the situation of art within technological society for the first time. This book completes a collaborative trilogy the two began in 1982 with Pure War and continued with Crepuscular Dawn, their 2002 work on architecture and biotechnology. In The Accident of Art, Virilio and Lotringer argue that a direct relation exists between war trauma and art. Why has art failed to reinvent itself in the face of technology, unlike performing art? Why has art simply retreated into painting, or surrendered to digital technology? Accidents, Virilio claims, can free us from speed's inertia. 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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.--Sylvere LotringerSemiotext(e) is reissuing in book form its legendary magazine issue Italy: Autonomia: Post-Political Politics, originally published in New York in 1980. Edited by Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi with the direct participation of the main leaders and theorists of the Autonomist movement (including Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Franco Piperno, Oreste Scalzone, Paolo Virno, Sergio Bologna, and Franco Berardi), this volume is the only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West. The movement itself was broken when Autonomia members were falsely accused of (and prosecuted for) being the intellectual masterminds of the Red Brigades; but even after the end of Autonomia, this book remains a crucial testimony of the way this creative, futuristic, neo-anarchistic, postideological, and nonrepresentative political movement of young workers and intellectuals anticipated issues that are now confronting us in the wake of Empire. In the next two years, Semiotext(e) will publish eight books by such Italian Post-Fordist intellectuals as Antonio Negri, Christian Marazzi, Paolo Virno, and Bifo, as they update the theories of Autonomia for the new century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSylvere Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007). Christian Marazzi, an Italian economist, lives in Switzerland. 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