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  1. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation.Brian Massumi - 2002 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence—movement, affect, and sensation—in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In _Parables for the Virtual_ Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Renewing (...)
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    A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations From Deleuze and Guattari.Brian Massumi - 1992 - MIT Press.
    A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the richest scholarly treatment of Deleuze's entire philosophical oeuvre available in any language. Finally, the dozens of explicit examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from contemporary artistic, scientific, and popular urban culture make the book an important, perhaps even central text within (...)
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    What Animals Teach Us About Politics.Brian Massumi - 2014 - Duke University Press.
    In _What Animals Teach Us about Politics_, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the "primitive" state of nature and the accompanying presuppositions about instinct permeating modern thought. Massumi integrates notions marginalized by the dominant currents in evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and philosophy—notions such as play, sympathy, (...)
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    Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception.Brian Massumi - 2015 - Duke University Press.
    Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in _Ontopower_. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time. Security threats, regardless of the existence of credible intelligence, are now felt into reality. Whereas nations once waited for a clear and present danger to emerge before using force, (...)
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    Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience.Erin Manning & Brian Massumi - 2014 - Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota Press. Edited by Brian Massumi.
    “Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from _Thought in the Act _Combining philosophy and aesthetics, _Thought in the Act_ is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition between the conceptual and the aesthetic, Erin Manning and Brian Massumi “think through” a (...)
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    Noise... The Political Economy of Music.Dana Polan, Jacques Attali & Brian Massumi - 1988 - Substance 17 (3):56.
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    Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts.Brian Massumi - 2013 - MIT Press.
    Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In _Semblance and Event_, Brian Massumi, drawing on the work of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, and others, develops the concept of "semblance" as a way to approach this question. It is, he argues, a question of abstraction, not as the opposite of the concrete (...)
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    A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari.Brian Massumi - 2002 - Routledge.
    A Shock to Thought brings together essays that explore Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of expression in a number of contemporary contexts. It will be of interest to all those in philosophy, cultural studies and art theory. The volume also contains an interview with Guattari which clearly restates the 'aesthetic paradigm' that organizes both his and Deleuze's work.
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  9. Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption.Brian Massumi - 2007 - Theory and Event 10 (2).
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    National Enterprise Emergency.Brian Massumi - 2009 - Theory, Culture and Society 26 (6):153-185.
    The figure of today’s threat is the suddenly irrupting, locally self-organizing, systemically self-amplifying threat of large-scale disruption. This form of threat, fed by instability and metastability, is not only indiscriminate, it is also indiscrimin able; it is indistinguishable from the general environment. The figure of the environment shifts: from the harmony of a natural balance to the normality of a generalized crisis environment so encompassing in its endemic threat-form as to connect, across the spectrum, the polar extremes of war and (...)
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    The Power at the End of the Economy.Brian Massumi - 2014 - Duke University Press.
    Rational self-interest is often seen as being at the heart of liberal economic theory. In _The Power at the End of the Economy_ Brian Massumi provides an alternative explanation, arguing that neoliberalism is grounded in complex interactions between the rational and the emotional. Offering a new theory of political economy that refuses the liberal prioritization of individual choice, Massumi emphasizes the means through which an individual’s affective tendencies resonate with those of others on infra-individual and transindividual levels. This nonconscious dimension (...)
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    (1 other version)Semblance and Event: Arts of Experience, Politics of Expression.Brian Massumi - 2011 - MIT Press.
    Introduction. Activist philosophy and the occurrent arts -- The ether and your anger toward a speculative pragmatism -- The thinking-feeling of what happens putting the radical back in empiricism -- The diagram as technique of existence ovum of the universe segmented -- Arts of experience, politics of expression In four movements. First movement. To dance a storm -- Second movement. Life unlimited -- Third movement. The paradox of content -- Fourth movement. Composing the political.
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    Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism.Brian Massumi - 2021 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    In _Couplets_, Brian Massumi presents twenty-four essays that represent the full spectrum of his work during the past thirty years. Conceived as a companion volume to _Parables for the Virtual_, _Couplets_ addresses the key concepts of _Parables_ from different angles and contextualizes them, allowing their stakes to be more fully felt. Rather than organizing the essays chronologically or by topic, Massumi pairs them into couplets to encourage readers to make connections across conventional subject matter categories, to encounter disjunctions, and to (...)
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  14. Technical Mentality” revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon.Brian Massumi - 2009 - Parrhesia 7:36-45.
  15. What Concepts Do: Preface to the Chinese Translation of A Thousand Plateaus.Brian Massumi - 2010 - Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 4 (1):1-15.
    This essay suggests an approach to the reading of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, grasped as a philosophical event that is as directly pragmatic as it is abstract and speculative. A series of key Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts (in particular, multiplicity, minority and double becoming) are staged from the angle of philosophy's relation to its disciplinary outside. These concepts are then transferred to the relation between the authors' philosophical lineage and the new cultural outside into which the Chinese translation will propel (...)
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    Perception Attack: Brief on War Time.Brian Massumi - 2010 - Theory and Event 13 (3).
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    First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot.Kenneth Dean & Brian Massumi - 1994 - Philosophy East and West 44 (3):592-593.
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    Such As It Is: A Short Essay in Extreme Realism.Brian Massumi - 2016 - Body and Society 22 (1):115-127.
    C.S. Peirce begins his 1903 lectures on pragmatism from the premise that the starting point for pragmatic philosophy as he envisions it must not be a concept of Being but rather of Feeling. Pragmatism, he explains, will be ‘an extreme realism’. Its first category will be ‘immediate consciousness’ conceived as a ‘pure presentness’ whose self-appearing is elemental to experience. Firstness cannot be couched in terms of recognition, cannot be contained in any first-person accounting of experience, and most of all can (...)
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    Foucault / Blanchot: Maurice Blanchot: The Thought From Outside and Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him.Jeffrey Mehlman & Brian Massumi (eds.) - 1987 - Zone Books.
    In these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other's work. In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucault develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity, fiction, and the will to truth. The two texts present reflections on writing, language, and representation which question the status of the author/subject and explore the notion of a "neutral" voice that arises from the realm of the "outside." This book is crucial (...)
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    Buying Out: Of Capitulation and Contestation.Brian Massumi - forthcoming - Theory and Event 15 (3).
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    Performing the ethico-aesthetic paradigm.Eric Alliez & Brian Massumi - unknown
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    Research and its legitimation through performativity.Geoff Bennington & Brian Massumi - 2005 - In Nico Stehr & Reiner Grundmann (eds.), Knowledge: critical concepts. New York: Routledge. pp. 2--209.
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    Architectures of the unforeseen: essays in the occurent arts.Brian Massumi - 2019 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
    Form Follows Force : Greg Lynn -- Relational Architecture : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer -- Making to Place : Simryn Gill -- Concluding Remarks : Immanence (Many Lives).
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  24. Annotated Translation with Critical Introduction of "Mille Plateaux" by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.Brian Massumi - 1987 - Dissertation, Yale University
    A Thousand Plateaus is an essay in poststructuralist cultural analysis co-authored by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. It applies contemporary theoretical approaches to a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and sciences. The focus of the work is the concept of subjectification, or the production of human subjectivity as an historical variable. ;The English translation is preceded by a translator's introduction. It traces the authors' philosophical background and compares A Thousand Plateaus to earlier works by Deleuze and (...)
     
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    Ceci n'est pas une morsure: Animalité et abstraction chez Deleuze et Guattari.Brian Massumi - 2012 - Philosophie 112 (1):67-91.
    « L’instinct est sympathie. Si cette sympathie pouvait étendre son objet et aussi réfléchir sur elle-même, elle nous donnerait la clef des opérations vitales. » Bergson On s’étonne de la précision athlétique du bond du félin sur sa proie ; on contemple avec admiration la prouesse architecturale du palais de termites ; la délicatesse complexe de la toile d’araignée nous transporte. La merveille réside...
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    Deleuze.Brian Massumi - 1998 - In Simon Critchley & William Ralph Schroeder (eds.), A Companion to Continental Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 559–573.
    The work of Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) spreads over four decades and twenty‐four volumes (and counting). The titular subject‐matter of his books ranges from topics in Western philosophy to psychoanalysis to literature to cinema to painting to the multiple itself (A Thousand Plateaus … and counting). The list of single‐authored works is intersected by a series of high‐profile collaborative projects with Félix Guattari (1930–92). In no two books, solo or duet, does the theoretical vocabulary entirely coincide. Where terms recur, their contours (...)
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    Le politique court‑circuité : préemption et contestation.Brian Massumi - 2012 - Multitudes 50 (3):49-54.
    Résumé La façon dont les « forces de l’ordre » ont tenté de « gérer » les mouvements estudiantins à Montréal témoigne de procédures qui relèvent de la préemption : prévenir les manifestations avant qu’elles ne coagulent. C’est dans cette logique que s’inscrivent les réformes universitaires, et c’est contre elles que les étudiants apprennent à leurs professeurs ce qu’est la résistance.
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    Nomadology: The War Machine.Brian Massumi (ed.) - 1986 - Semiotext(E).
    In this daring essay inspired by Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari redefine the relation between the state and its war machine. Far from being a part of the state, warriers are nomads who always come from the outside and keep threatening the authority of the state. In the same vein, nomadic science keeps infiltrating royal science, undermining its axioms and principles. Nomadology is a speedy, pocket-sized treatise that refuses to be pinned down. Theorizing a dynamic relationship between sedentary power (...)
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    Perception attack.Brian Massumi - 2008 - Multitudes 34 (3):74.
    When war becomes perception attack, and perception is attacked ecologically ; when the ecology is of experience dawning, and the dawning modulates what will become ; when that modulation inhabits an untimely, « eternitarian » lapse, and in that lapse we « recollect forward » a world of conflict ; when that forwarding of a world of conflict plies the « full spectrum », expressing itself as a force of life – then the machinery of war arrogates to itself ontoproductive (...)
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    Peur, dit le spectre.Brian Massumi - 2005 - Multitudes 4 (4):135-152.
    The article examines the politicization of fear following the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Towers. It analyzes the role of mass media imagery in the wide-spread production of fear, focusing on the color-code « Terror Alert System » put in place by the Bush administration. It is argued that the recentering of governmental action on the preemptive response to threat has introduced a new time structure into politics which effectively renders futurity present. Through signs of fear conveyed (...)
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    Prévention, dissuasion, préemption.Brian Massumi & Erik Bordeleau - 2017 - Multitudes 2 (2):165-175.
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    Purple phosphene.Brian Massumi - 1999 - Angelaki 4 (3):219-220.
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    Réévaluer la valeur pour sortir du capitalisme.Brian Massumi & Anne Querrien - 2018 - Multitudes 71 (2):80.
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  34. The Bleed: where body meets image.Brian Massumi - 1996 - In John C. Welchman (ed.), Rethinking borders. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 18--40.
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    The principle of unrest: activist philosophy in the expanded field.Brian Massumi - 2017 - London: Open Humanities Press, 2017..
    The Principle of Unrest explores the contemporary implications of an activist philosophy, pivoting on the issue of movement. Movement is understood not simply in spatial terms but as qualitative transformation: becoming, emergence, event. Neoliberal capitalism's special relation to movement is of central concern.
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    Vers une politique du dividualisme.Brian Massumi & Armelle Chrétien - 2017 - Multitudes 68 (3):77.
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