| Chris
Kraus & Sylvère Lotringer
Hatred of Capitalism
A Semiotext(e) Reader
“Semiotext(e)
has for a generation been the leading edge of the
most incendiary and exciting revolution in the
West. Hatred of Capitalism dips into the very fertile
archives of this magazine and its book publishing
arm for some of the greatest examples of the Semiotext(e)
charm, menace, play and triumph. I can’t
think of an anthology more important or more urgently
necessary for these times.”
—Rick Moody.
“Semiotext(e) has consistently probed
the intersection points between high theory and
art and life in America. Publishing both French
theory and American first-person fiction, Semiotext(e)
invents a new plateau of thought which is dizzyingly
complex and deeply subjective. Their work is
resolutely difficult, dense, exhilarating and
defiant, at once responsible to the past and
bravely forward looking.”
—Avital Ronell. |
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Compiled in 2001 to commemorate
the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings
together highlights of Semiotext(e)’s most
beloved and prescient works. Semiotext(e)’s
three-decade history mirrors the history of American
thought. Founded by French theorist and critic Sylvère
Lotringer as a scholarly journal in 1974, Semiotext(e) quickly
took on the mission of melding French theory with
the American art world and punk underground. Its
Foreign Agents, Native Agents, Active Agents and
Double Agents imprints have brought together thinkers
and writers as diverse as Gilles Deleuze, Assata
Shakur, Bob Flanagan, Paul Virillio, Kate Millet,
Jean Baudrillard, Michelle Tea, William S. Burroughs,
Eileen Myles, Ulrike Meinhof, and Fanny Howe. In Hatred
of Capitalism, editors Kraus and Lotringer bring
these people together in the same volume for the
first time.
The
History of Semiotext(e) By
Chris Kraus and Sylvère Lotringer, the introduction
to Hatred of Capitalism (pdf
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“…a fat document of cultural
resistance, written by those who thought about it and those
who lived it.”
—Bay Guardian, San Francisco
“Semiotext(e)’s strange tomorrow is our strange today.”
—Joshua Clover, Village Voice.
“Hatred of Capitalism proposes a certain kind of freedom, which may involve
unlearning as much as learning, dying as much as living—and which is characterized
by an enlarged and even exalted sense of the possible.”
—Robert Gluck, Bookforum. |
