Virilio is a philosopher/theorist who writes clearly and thinks idiosyncractically regarding how information is digested and distributed through electronic, television, radio and computer technology. The journey is no longer critical, but the arrival is all too crucial. For example, Virilio clearly maps out how the Gulf War as seen by the outside viewer is nothing more than a video game. Technology has not only changed the world, but through modern speed of transportation and electronic media, it has buried the old by rewriting the past. Information is no longer content, but it is speed itself that is the content. TB

Publisher: University of Minnesota
Paperback: 184 pages

Weaving together the work of Marx, Freud and Nietzsche, Anti-Oedipus is an anti-psychiatry critique and attempt at an essential theory connecting politics, desire and anthropology. How to be a nomad in late industrial society beyond time and space.

Publisher: University of Minnesota
Paperback: 400 pages

Taking the poststructuralist demolition of Western metaphysics as its point of departure, this book is a positive exercise in the affirmative “nomad” thought called for in its predecessor Anti-Oedipus.

Publisher: University of Minnesota
Paperback: 640 pages

“The first volume deals primarily with the image of women in the collective unconscious of the fascist warrior—visions reflecting hatred and fear, culminating in a series of liquid metaphors—red tide, lava, mud—that threaten to engulf the male ego.”

Publisher: University of Minnesota
Paperback: 517 pages
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“In Volume 2, Theweleit shifts his attention to the male self-image. We are shown how the body becomes a mechanism for eluding the dreaded liquid and the ‘feminine’ emotions associated with it. Armored, organized by the mental and physical procedures like the military drill, the male body is transformed into ‘a man of steel.’ As Theweleit shows, only in war does this body find redemption from constraint.”

Publisher: University of Minnesota
Paperback: 480 pages
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“It is in this collection of prewar writings that Bataille’s positions are most clearly, forcefully and obsessively put forward. Included are Bataille’s polemics against André Breton; his conception of his own project as a kind of intellectual offal defying both idealism and traditional materialism; the rethinking of Marxism; the revalorization of de Sade and Nietzsche; the unrelenting critique of fascism and of a reductive Hegelian dialectic… In the process, he comes to recognize the need for a ‘science of the heterogeneous” that posits what is, strictly speaking, impossible: the individual and collective experience of the unassimilable waste products of the individual body, of society, of thought and of bourgeois industrial economies. Excrement, madness, poetry, automutilation, mystical trances, obscenity, unlimited proletarian revolution—all are taken up in these writings and considered in the context of an expenditure moving beyond all bounds.”

Publisher: University of Minnesota
Paperback: 271 pages