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Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical
attempts to construct a pure ontology, with a single infinite
substance, and all beings as the modes of being his substance. This
book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form, has
as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the
link between ethical and ontological propositions. His ethics is an
ethology, rather than a moral science. Attention has been drawn to
Spinoza by deep ecologists such as Arne Naess, the Norwegian
philosopher; and this reading of Spinoza by Deleuze lends itself to
a radical ecological ethic. As Robert Hurley says in his
introduction, "Deleuze opens us to the idea that the elements of
the different individuals we compose may be nonhuman within us. One
wonders, finally, whether Man might be defined as a territory, a
set of boundaries, a limit on existence." Gilles Deleuze, known for
his inquiries into desire, language, politics, and power, finds a
kinship between Spinoza and Nietzsche. He writes, "Spinoza did not
believe in hope or even in courage; he believed only in joy and in
vision ...he more than any other gave me the feeling of a gust of
air from behind each time I read him, of a witch's broom that he
makes one mount. " Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French
philosopher whose writings influenced many philosophical
disciplines such as literary theory, post-structuralism, and
postmodernism. He also taught philosophy at the University of Paris
at Vicennes. Robert Hurley was a translator for many French
philosophers including Michael Foucault (History of Sexuality),
Gilles Deleuze, and George Bataille (Theory of Religion).
An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the
Preface)
When it first appeared in France, "Anti-Oedipus" was hailed as a
masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In
it, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari set forth the following
theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the
government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take
advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the
group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not
be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because
they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five
years after its original publication, "Anti-Oedipus" still stands
as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the
nature of free thinking.
An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late
capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance. The
cybernetician's mission is to combat the general entropy that
threatens living beings, machines, societies-that is, to create the
experimental conditions for a continuous revitalization, to
constantly restore the integrity of the whole. -from The Cybernetic
Hypothesis This early Tiqqun text has lost none of its pertinence.
The Cybernetic Hypothesis presents a genealogy of our "technical"
present that doesn't point out the political and ethical dilemmas
embedded in it as if they were puzzles to be solved, but rather
unmasks an enemy force to be engaged and defeated. Cybernetics in
this context is the tekne of threat reduction, which unfortunately
has required the reduction of a disturbing humanity to packets of
manageable information. Not so easily done. Not smooth. A matter of
civil war, in fact. According to the authors, cybernetics is the
latest master fable, welcomed at a certain crisis juncture in late
capitalism. And now the interesting question is: Has the guest in
the house become the master of the house? The "cybernetic
hypothesis" is strategic. Readers of this little book are not
likely to be naive. They may be already looking, at least in their
heads, for a weapon, for a counter-strategy. Tiqqun here imagines
an unbearable disturbance to a System that can take only so much:
only so much desertion, only so much destituent gesture, only so
much guerilla attack, only so much wickedness and joy.
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The Impossible (Paperback)
Georges Bataille; Translated by Robert Hurley
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In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in
poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible.
The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail
quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement
toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved
Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy. "Humanity is
faced with a double perspective: in one direction, violent
pleasure, horror and death - precisely the perspective of poetry -
and in the opposite direction, that of science or the real world of
utility. Only the useful, the real, have a serious character. We
are never within our rights in preferring seduction to it: truth
has rights over us. Indeed it has every right. And yet we can, and
indeed we must respond to something which, not being God, is
stronger than every right, that impossible to which we accede only
by forgetting the truth of all these rights." -Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French intellectual and literary
icon who wrote essays, novels, and poems exploring philosophical
and sociological subjects such as eroticism and surrealism. City
Lights published more of Bataille's works including Erotism, The
Tears of Eros, and Story of the Eye.
Why we must reject the illusory consolations of technology and
choose revolution over fascism. We are living in apocalyptic times.
In Capital Hates Everyone, famed sociologist Maurice Lazzarato
points to a stark choice emerging from the magma of today's world
events: fascism or revolution. Fascism now drives the course of
democracies as they grow less and less liberal and increasingly
subject to the law of capital. Since the 1970s, Lazzarato writes,
capital has entered a logic of war. It has become, by the power
conferred on it by financialization, a political force intent on
destruction. Lazzarato urges us to reject the illusory consolations
of a technology-abetted new kind of capitalism and choose
revolution over fascism.
The definitive edition of Foucault's articles, interviews, and
seminars.
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth
century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of
any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his
death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn
from the complete collection of all of Foucault's courses,
articles, and interviews, and brings his most important work to a
new generation of readers.
"Ethics" (edited by Paul Rabinow) contains the summaries of
Foucault's renowned courses at the College de France, paired with
key writings and interviews on friendship, sexuality, and the care
of the self and others.
The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the
twentieth century In the fourth and final volume of his
far-reaching and influential study of human sexuality, Foucault
turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient
ideas of pleasure were modified into the notion of the 'flesh'.
Ranging over marriage, procreation and the concept of virginity as
a divine state, Foucault brilliantly shows how a fledgling religion
altered and defined the Western history of desire. Confessions of
the Flesh brings to a conclusion one of the twentieth century's
seminal works. 'A thinker of immense power ... posing questions
that still perplex us' The Times Literary Supplement 'Required
reading ... The appearance of the fourth volume is the most
significant event in the world of Foucault scholarship in 20 years
... Essential' Los Angeles Review of Books
"Power," the third and final volume of The New Press's Essential
Works of Foucault series, draws together Foucault's contributions
to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political
analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the
core agenda of Western political culture--medicine, psychiatry, the
penal system, sexuality--illuminating and expanding on the themes
of "The Birth of the Clinic," "Discipline and Punish," and the
first volume of "The History of Sexuality."
"Power" includes previously unpublished lectures, later writings
highlighting Foucault's revolutionary analysis of the politics of
personal conduct and freedom, interviews, and letters that
illuminate Foucault's own political activism.
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To Our Friends (Paperback)
The Invisible Committee; Translated by Robert Hurley
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A reflection on, and an extension of, the ideas laid out seven
years ago in The Coming Insurrection. The Invisible Committee's The
Coming Insurrection was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters
and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged
from campus bulletin boards to Fox News. Seven years later, The
Invisible Committee follows up their premonitory manifesto with a
new book, To Our Friends. From The Invisible Committee: In 2007 we
published The Coming Insurrection in France. It must be
acknowledged that a number of assertions by the Invisible Committee
have since been confirmed, starting with the first and most
essential: the sensational return of the insurrectionary
phenomenon. Who would have bet a kopeck, seven years ago, on the
overthrow of Ben Ali or Mubarak through street action, on the
revolt of young people in Quebec, on the political awakening of
Brazil, on the fires set French-style in the English or Swedish
banlieues, on the creation of an insurrectionary commune in the
very heart of Istanbul, on a movement of plaza occupations in the
United States, or on the rebellion that spread throughout Greece in
December of 2008? During the seven years that separate The Coming
Insurrection from To Our Friends, the agents of the Invisible
Committee have continued to fight, to organize, to transport
themselves to the four corners of the world, to wherever the fires
were lit, and to debate with comrades of every tendency and every
country. Thus To Our Friends is written at the experiential level,
in connection with that general movement. Its words issue from the
turmoil and are addressed to those who still believe sufficiently
in life to fight as a consequence. To Our Friends is a report on
the state of the world and of the movement, a piece of writing
that's essentially strategic and openly partisan. Its political
ambition is immodest: to produce a shared understanding of the
epoch, in spite of the extreme confusion of the present.
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Bird with Expanded Wings (Paperback)
Sportyman; Cover design or artwork by Robert Hurley; Designed by Linda Hurley
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Now (Paperback)
Robert Hurley, Hedi El Kholti
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A new political critique from the authors of The Coming
Insurrection, calling for a "destituent process" of outright
refusal and utter indifference to government. Now is the phantom
chapter to the Invisible Committee's previous book, To Our Friends:
a new critique from the anonymous collective that establishes their
opposition to the world of capital and its law of labor, addresses
current anti-terrorist rhetoric and the ferocious repression that
comes with it, and clarifies the end of social democracy and the
growing rumors of the need for a coming "civil war." Now emerges at
a time when the Invisible Committee's contestation has found echoes
throughout the West, with a collapse of trust in the police, an
inept weariness on the part of the political system, a growing
urgency for opposition, a return of the theme of the Commune, a
vanishing distinction between radicals and citizens, and a
widespread refusal on the part of the citizen to be governed. As
farcical political elections continue to unfold worldwide like a
line of tumbling dominoes, and governments increasingly struggle to
reclaim a legitimacy that has already slipped out of their grasp,
Now clarifies the Invisible Committee's attitude toward all such
elections and their outcome: one of utter indifference. Now
proposes a "destituent process" that charts out a different path to
be taken, a path of outright refusal that simply ignores elections
altogether. It is a path that calls for taking over the world and
not taking power, for exploring new forms of life and not a new
constitution, and for desertion and silence as alternatives to
proclamations and crashes. It is also a call for an unprecedented
communism-a communism stronger than nation and country.
The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the
twentieth century Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way
we think about power, selfhood and sexuality forever. Arguing that
sexuality is profoundly shaped by the power structures applied to
it, the series is one of his most important and far-reaching works.
In this fourth and final volume, Foucault turns his attention to
early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure were
modified into the Christian notion of the 'flesh' - a
transformation that would define the Western experience of
sexuality and subjectivity. Completed at Foucault's death, the
manuscript of this volume was locked away in a bank vault for three
decades. Now for the first time, the work is available to
English-language readers as the author originally conceived it.
The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.
The definitive edition of Foucault's articles, interviews, and
seminars.
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth
century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of
any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his
death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn
from the complete collection of all of Foucault's courses,
articles, and interviews, and brings his most important work to a
new generation of readers.
"Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology" (edited by James D. Faubion)
surveys Foucault's diverse but sustained address of the historical
forms and interplay of passion, experience, and truth.
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