Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader (Semiotext(e) Journal) - Softcover

Chris Kraus; Eileen Myles; Assata Shakur; Jean Baudrillard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1584350121 ISBN 13: 9781584350125

Publisher: Semiotext[e], 2002

Synopsis

Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.

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 Sylvere 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.

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About the Author

Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including <I>I Love Dick </I>and <I>Summer of Hate</I>; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, <I>After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography</I>. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.<br /><br /><DIV>Sylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.</DIV><br /><br />Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including <I>Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree,</I> and <I>Not Me</I> (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of <I>The New Fuck You</I> (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation.<br /><br /><DIV>Jean Baudrillard (1929– 2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.</DIV><br /><br /><DIV>Alain Joxe is Director of the Center for the Sociology of Defense and Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.</DIV>

Edition details

• Publisher: Semiotext[e]
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584350121
• ISBN 13: 9781584350125
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432