Táto séria ponúka priekopnícky pohľad do sveta radikálnej francúzskej a európskej teórie. Skúma kľúčové myšlienky a koncepty, ktoré formovali moderné myslenie, často s dôrazom na subverzívne a kritické perspektívy. Každý zväzok prináša hlboký vhľad do diel popredných mysliteľov, čím sprístupňuje komplexné filozofické diskurzy širšiemu publiku.
The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, Rene Lourau, Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste. Over the next decade, both in theory and in practice, the group articulated a radical ultra-leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life. Utopia Deferred collects all of the essays Jean Baudrillard published in Utopie in their original form as well as a recent interview with the author. These essays, torn from the headlines of the tumultuous decade following May 1968, surpass Marxism itself.
Die jahrhundertelange Konjunktur des Individuums gerät ins Wanken. Es beginnt das Zeitalter des Dividuellen. Die schlechte Nachricht von Gerald Raunigs Philosophie der Dividualität ist, dass sich das Dividuelle im maschinischen Kapitalismus vor allem als Verschärfung von Ausbeutung und Indienstnahme zeigt: In Algorithmen, Derivaten, Big Data und Social Media wirkt Dividualität als ausufernde Erweiterung von herrschaftlicher Teilung und Selbstzerteilung. Die gute Nachricht: Genau auf dem Terrain des Dividuellen wird auch eine neue Qualität von Widerstand möglich, als kritische Mannigfaltigkeit, molekulare Revolution und Con-division
A focused exploration of Baudrillard's understanding and use of alterity and
otherness, a crucial theme that appears and reappears throughout his work as a
whole.
Focusing on the concept of speed as a transformative force, Paul Virilio's work examines its role in shaping civilization through technological advances linked to militarization. He argues that speed, rather than class or wealth, drives societal change, presenting a topological history of humanity's evolution. Drawing from various thinkers, Virilio's "technical vitalism" explores the implications of rapid advancements, including military technology and information systems, offering a critical perspective on their impact on human nature and society's future.
Characterizing it as a mythic discourse, Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this
brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel
Foucault.
Offering a radical new perspective, a leading theorist in the Italian postfordist movement delves into the complexities of the current international economic landscape. The book challenges conventional views and presents innovative ideas that aim to reshape our understanding of global economics, making it a significant contribution to contemporary economic theory.
Als Gilles Deleuze in den achtziger Jahren bemerkte, Foucault sei letztlich »Kantianer«, wirkte das noch wie eine bewußt forcierte Übertreibung, die eine zu wenig beachtete Seite des Autors ins Licht rücken sollte. In der Folge trat dann immer deutlicher zutage, welche große Bedeutung Kants kritischer Philosophie für Foucaults gesamtes philosophisches Unternehmen zukommt. Sein letzter Vorlesungszyklus am Collège de France beginnt mit einer eingehenden Lektüre von »Was ist Aufklärung?«; und damit schließt sich ein Kreis, der Ende der fünfziger Jahre mit der Übersetzung von Kants Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht begann. Die ausführliche Einleitung, mit der Foucault seine Übersetzung versehen hatte, war lange Zeit nur im Archiv zugänglich und nur einer kleinen Zahl von Spezialisten bekannt. Nun liegt der Text endlich in einer sorgfältig edierten Fassung vor. Er zeigt, daß Foucault die Kunst der geduldigen, klarsichtigen und gleichsam unerschrockenen Lektüre nicht erst in seinen späten Auslegungen antiker Texte beherrschte. Seine Einführung in Kants Anthropologie legt nicht nur den Grund für die berühmten Analysen des anthropologischen Zirkels in der Ordnung der Dinge; sie markiert mit der Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Anthropologie und Kritik auch den entscheidenden Punkt, an dem Foucault Kants Denken aufnimmt.
Often approached through their 'micropolitics of desire,' the joint works of Deleuze and Guattari are rarely part of the discussion when classical and contemporary problems of political thought come under scrutiny. Yet if we follow the trajectory from 'Anti-Oedipus' (1972) to 'A Thousand Plateaus' (1980), it becomes clear that these problems were redeveloped during a period of historical transition marked by the end of the wars of decolonization, the transformation of global capitalism, and by recombinations of the forces of collective resistance that were as deep as they were uncertain. In 'State and Politics,' Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc measures how Deleuze and Guattari engage with the upheavals of their time by confronting their thought with its main interlocutor, Marxism, with its epistemological field (historical materialism), with its critical program (the critique of political economy)
Exploring the administration of deviant desire in specialized clinics, this report delves into how postmodern society grapples with the complexities of sexuality, often leading to overexposure. It raises provocative questions about the intersections of professional boundaries and personal arousal, prompting readers to consider the impact of patients' fantasies on their own sexual understandings. The book challenges conventional perspectives on desire and the ethics of sexual expression within clinical settings.
The short-lived grouping of architects, sociologists, and urbanists known as Utopie was active in Paris from 1967 to 1978. This book makes the groups diverse body of theoretical work accessible in English for the first time
"There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims... Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class, shame in relation to the milieu in which I grew up, why, when once I had arrived in Paris and started meeting people from such different class backgrounds, I would often find myself lying about my class origins... why had it never occurred to me to take up this problem in a book?" Returning to Reims is a breathtaking account of one man's return to the town where he grew up after an absence of thirty years. It is a frank, fearlessly personal story of family, memory, identity and time lost. But it is also a sociologist's view of what it means to grow up working class and then leave that class; of inequality and shifting political allegiances in an increasingly divided nation. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times.
"First published in France in 1973, Good Sex Illustrated gleefully deciphers the subtext of a popular sex education manual for children produced during that period. In so doing, Duvert mounts a scabrous and scathing critique of how deftly the "sex-positive" ethos was harnessed to promote the ideal of the nuclear family. Like Michel Houllebecq, Duvert is highly attuned to all the hypocrisies of late twentieth-century western "sexual liberation" mass movements."--Jacket
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari redefine the relation between the state and
its war machine. Far from being a part of the state, warriers (the army) are
nomads who always come from the outside and keep threatening the authority of
the state.
Review: "The War machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war." "Anthropologist and ethnographer Pierre Clastres was a major influence on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, and his writings formed an essential chapter in the discipline of political anthropology. The posthumous publication in French of Archeology of Violence in 1980 gathered together Clastres's final groundbreaking essays and the opening chapters of the book he had begun before his death in 1977 at the age 43. Elaborating upon the conclusions of such earlier works as Society Against the State, in these essays Clastres critiques his former mentor, Claude Levi-Strauss, and devastatingly rejects the orthodoxy of Marxist anthropology and other Western interpretive models of "primitive societies." Discarding the traditional anthropological understanding of war among South American Indians as arising from a scarcity of resources, Clastres instead identifies violence among these peoples as a deliberate means to territorial segmentatin and the avoidance of a State formation. In their refusal to separate the political from the social, and in their careful control of their tribal chiefs--who are rendered weak so as to remain dependent on the communities they represent--the "savages" Clastres presents prove to be shrewd political minds who resist in advance any attempt at "globalization.""
Originally published in Italian in 2002, When the Word Becomes Flesh provides a compelling contribution to the understanding of language and its relation to human nature and social relationships. Adopting Aristotle's definition of the human being as a linguistic and political animal, Paolo Virno frames the act of speech as a foundational philosophical issue -- an act that in its purely performative essence ultimately determines our ability to pass from the state of possibility to one of actuality: that is, from the power to act to action itself. As the ultimate public act, speech reveals itself to be an intrinsically political practice mediating between biological invariants and changing historical determinations. In his most complete reflection on the topic to date, Virno shows how language directly expresses the conditions of possibility for our experience, from both a transcendental and a biological point of view. Drawing on the work of such twentieth-century giants as Ferdinand de Saussure, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edmund Husserl, and Gottlob Frege, Virno constructs a powerful linguistic meditation on the political challenges faced by the human species in the twenty-first century. It is in language that human nature and our historical potentialities are fully revealed, and it is language that can guide us toward a more aware and purposeful realization of them.
Es ist vielmehr die intellektuelle Erfahrung einer verstörenden und beunruhigenden Präsenz, die den eigenen Blick auf die Gegenwart durchkreuzt. Diese Leseerfahrung wird jeder machen, der in diesen Band mit Aufsätzen, Interviews und kleineren Beiträgen von Gilles Deleuze eintaucht. So zeigt sich etwa die Nähe seiner kritischen Stimme zu aktuellen politischen Debatten, wie sie von Slavoj Žižek oder Noam Chomsky bis hin zu Michael Hardt und Toni Negri geführt werden. Auch seine Überlegungen zur Philosophie des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, zum zeitgenössischen Kino und zur Filmtheorie, zur Psychoanalyse oder zur Literatur haben ihr Korrelat in der Gegenwart. Krieg, Pazifismus, Toleranz, Revolution, Drogen, Befreiung und Kritik - das sind Deleuze' Stichworte zur Erkundung des Heute, die nichts von ihrer Sprengkraft verloren haben.
With Anti-Oedipus in 1972, Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze instigated one of the most daring intellectual adventures of our time, updating both psychoanalysis and Marxism in light of a more radical and "constructivist" vision of capitalism. Assembled here for the first time, Guattari's notes, addressed to and annotated by Deleuze, reveal an inventive, visionary "conceptor," arguably one of the more enigmatic figures in philosophy and social-political theory today. The Anti-Oedipus Papers (1969-1973) are supplemented by substantial journal entries describing Guattari's turbulent relationship with his teacher Jacques Lacan, apprehensions about Anti-Oedipus and personal accounts of his life
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) gehört zu den großen französischen Philosophen. Neben seinen Monographien über Denker wie Hume, Leibniz oder Kant, seinen Beiträgen zur Logik des Sinns , zum Verhältnis von Differenz und Wiederholung und seinen beiden Büchern über das Kino hat er immer auch die kleine Form gesucht, in der er oftmals konziser und direkter über seine philosophischen Projekte und ihre Implikationen Auskunft gibt. Der erste Band der Sammlung dieser »Kleinen Schriften« liegt nun vor. Er vereinigt eine Vielzahl von Texten, die verstreut publiziert worden sind und hier nun zusammengefaßt und zum größten Teil erstmals auf deutsch erscheinen: von den frühen Auseinandersetzungen mit Rousseau, Kant, Bergson, Hyppolite über brillante Essays zu Schriftstellern wie Jarry, Roussel, Cixous zum Kriminalroman der série noire , über Malerei bis hin zu Texten aus dem Umkreis der zahllosen Debatten über Psychiatrie und Politik, die sein gemeinsam mit Félix Guattari verfaßtes Buch Anti-ödipus . Kapitalismus und Schizophrenie ausgelöst hat – und natürlich immer wieder Nietzsche. In diesen kleinen Texten kommt ein anderer Deleuze zum Vorschein, ein witziger, pointierter Autor, der über einsame Inseln ebenso zu schreiben weiß wie über nomadisches Denken und die Psychoanalyse und in dessen Texten ein »philosophischer Humor« herrscht, »der auch den Texten seiner heute schreibenden akademischen Kollegen gut anstünde«, wie die Frankfurter Rundschau anläßlich des Erscheinens der französischen Ausgabe geschrieben hat.
We shouldn't forget that ancient philosophy used to be a mental workout in which logical forms were used like machines in a gym ... Philosophy today is a super-workout for communicative energies capable of finding points of contact throughout the entire world. --from Neither Sun nor Death Peter Sloterdijk first became known in this country for his late 1980s Critique of Cynical Reason, which confronted headlong the "enlightened false consciousness" of Habermasian critical theory. Two decades later, after spending seven years in India studying Eastern philosophy, he is now attracting renewed interest for his writings on politics and globalization and for his magnum opus Spheres, a three-volume archaeology of the human attempt to dwell within spaces, from womb to globe: Bubbles, 1998; Globes, 1999; Foam, 2004, all forthcoming from Semiotext(e). In Neither Sun nor Death, Sloterdijk answers questions posed by German writer Hans-Jurgen Heinrichs, commenting on such issues as technological mutation, development media, communication technologies, and his own intellectual itinerary. Iconoclastic and provocative, alternatively sparkling and bombastic, a child of '68 and a libertarian, Sloterdijk is the most exciting and controversial German philosopher to appear on the world scene since Nietzsche and Heidegger. Like Nietzsche, Sloterdijk remains convinced that contemporary philosophers have to think dangerously and let themselves be "kidnapped" by contemporary "hypercomplexities"; they must forsake our present humanist and nationalist world for a wider horizon at once ecological and global. Neither Sun nor Death is the best introduction available to Sloterdijk's philosophical theory of globalization. It reveals a philosophe extraordinaire, encyclopedic and provocative, as much at ease with current French Theory (Gilles Deleuze, Paul Virilio, Gabriel Tarde) as with Heidegger and Indian mystic Osho Rajneesh
Foucault's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the
definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tradition
of philosophy.
Transversality ... think of a field with a fence around it in which there are horses with adjustable blinkers: the adjustment of their blinkers is the "coefficient of transversality." If they are so adjusted as to make the horses totally blind, then presumably a certain traumatic form of encounter will take place. Gradually, as the flaps are opened, one can envisage them moving about more easily. Originally published in French in 1972, Psychoanalysis and Transversality gathers all the articles that Flix Guattari wrote between 1955 and 1971. It provides a fascinating account of his intellectual and political itinerary before Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972), the ground-breaking book he wrote with Gilles Deleuze, propelled him to the forefront of contemporary French philosophy. Guattari's background was unlike that of any of his peers. In 1953, with psychoanalyst Jean Oury, he founded the La Borde psychiatric clinic, which was based on the principle that one cannot treat psychotics without modifying the entire institutional context. For Guattari, the purpose of "institutional psychotherapy" was not just to cure psychotic patients, but also to learn with them a different relation to the world. A dissident in the French Communist Party and active in far-left politics (he participated in the May 1968 student rebellion), Guattari realized early on that it was possible to introduce analysis into political groups. Considered as open machines (subject-groups) rather than self-contained structures (subjugated groups), these subject-group's shunned hierarchy and vertical structures, developing transversally, rhizomatizing through other groups
Diese hier erstmals als Buch
auf Deutsch veröff entlichte Studie
zählt zu den konzisesten
und wichtigsten Abhandlungen
Baudrillards und ist doch eine der
am wenigsten bekannten. Er beschäft
igt sich darin mit den Grenzen
der Soziologie, der Informationstheorie
und den Th eorien von
»Masse«, für ihn der »Nullpunkt
des Politischen«. Baudrillard formuliert
eine Informationstheorie,
nach der »die Masse ein Medium
ist, das stärker ist als alle Medien
«.
Baudrillard's "The Ecstasy of Communication" is a pivotal work summarizing two decades of his radical theory, reflecting on contemporary alienation and the shift from meaningful existence to constant communication. This anti-manifesto critiques influences like McLuhan and remains a crucial companion to Baudrillard's oeuvre, offering a dark reflection on modernity.
"According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in Northern France. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary's vital function first. Using poison gas signaled the passage from classical war to terrorism. This terror from the air inaugurated an era in which the main idea was no longer to target the enemy's body, but their environment. From then on, what would be attacked in wartime as well as in peacetime would be the very conditions necessary for life. This kind of terrorism became the matrix of modern and postmodern war, from World War I's toxic gas to the Nazi Zyklon B used in Auschwitz, from the bombing of Dresden to the attack on the World Trade Center. Sloterdijk goes on to describe the offensive of modern aesthetics, aesthetic terrorism from Surrealism to Malevich -- an "atmo-terrorism" in the arts that parallels the assault on environment that had originated in warfare."--Back cover
Ranging from reflections on the Enlightenment and revolution to a
consideration of the Frankfurt School, this collection offers insight into the
topics preoccupying Foucault as he worked on what would be his last body of
published work, the three-volume History of Sexuality.
Exploring the impact of automation and information technology, the writings delve into the transformation of labor organization and the broadening of exploitation beyond the traditional labor class. Negri examines the implications of neoliberalism, Thatcherism, and Reaganomics, highlighting how these shifts have not only displaced the political significance of labor but have also embedded exploitation across various societal spheres. The work critiques the resulting counterrevolution and its effects on contemporary social dynamics.
Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a
vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International
movement.
6 Vorlesungen, die 1983 in Berkeley gehalten wurden: Wer ist in der Lage, die Wahrheit zu sagen? Mit welchen Folgen und mit welcher Beziehung zur Macht? Parrhesia bedeutet, freimütig und aufrichtig die Wahrheit zu sagen, und ist zuallererst eine Praktik, der es um die Übereinstimmung zwischen Denken und Leben geht.
In Aberrant Movements, David Lapoujade offers one of the first comprehensive
treatments of Deleuzian thought. Drawing on the entirety of Deleuze's work as
well as his collaborations with Félix Guattari, from the transcendental
empiricism of Difference and Repetition to the schizoanalysis and
geophilosophy of Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, Lapoujade explores the
central problem underlying the delirious coherence of Deleuze's philosophy:
aberrant movements. These are the movements that Deleuze wrests from Kantian
idealism, Nietzsche's eternal return, and the nonsense of Lewis Carroll; they
are the schizophrenic processes of the unconscious and the nomadic line of
flight traversing history - in short, the forces that permeate life and
thought. Tracing and classifying their irrational logics represent the
quintessential tasks of Deleuzian philosophy.
Exploring the concept of "picnolepsy," this work delves into the consciousness shaped by speed and its effects on perception. Virilio uses a range of cultural references, from cinema to notable historical figures, to illustrate the impact of speed on modern life. He connects the experience of living in a fast-paced society to themes of absence and disconnection. This edition includes a new introduction by Jonathan Crary, enhancing the discussion of visual culture and setting the stage for Virilio's later work on the intersection of war and cinema.
The book provides a critical analysis of François Mitterrand's ascent to power and the allure of political authority for the French Left. It chronicles the political landscape of France from 1977 to 1984, examining the complex relationship between the Socialist Party and the Communist Party. Through a collection of previously published commentaries, it explores Baudrillard's concept of simulacrum in politics, revealing how political narratives can distort reality and influence public perception.
The most accessible and exhaustive introduction to Foucault's thought to date,
including every extant interview made by Foucault from the mid-60s until his
death in 1984.
