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Bubbles: microspherology

by Sloterdijk, Peter, Hoban, Wieland

fromSemiotext(e) foreign agents series

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An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time. Rejecting the century's predominant philosophical focus on temporality, Sloterdijk, a self-described "student of the…

Preliminary materials for a theory of the young-girl

by Reines, Ariana, Tiqqun (Collective)

fromSemiotext(e) intervention series

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"Concepts made for war do not call for unanimity. And it is only natural that they should be condemned for the ignominious realities they reveal. As for those who have shut their eyes to the sheer and massive fact of the Young-Girl, what difference could a little more blindness …

The Invention of pornography: obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800

by Hunt, Lynn Avery

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"In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of c…

The Invention of pornography: obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800

by Hunt, Lynn

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"In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of c…

The Invention of pornography: obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800

by Hunt, Lynn

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"In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of c…

Theory of religion

by Bataille, Georges, Hurley, Robert

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Argues that religion is the search for lost intimacy, discusses its connection to the general economy, and examines the sacrifice of war.

Pure war: twenty-five years later

by Lotringer, Sylvère, Virilio, Paul

fromSemiotext(e) foreign agents series

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Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II. In June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylvere Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they developed twenty-five years before in thei…

The agony of power

by Lotringer, Sylvère, BAUDRILLARD, Jean, Hodges, Ames

fromSemiotext(e) intervention series

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History that repeats itself turns to farce. But a farce that repeats itself ends up making a history.--from The Agony of PowerIn these previously unpublished manuscripts written just before his death in 2007, Jean Baudrillard takes a last crack at the bewildering situation curre…