Bücher von Brian Massumi

This collection of twenty-four essential essays written by Brian Massumi over the past thirty years is both a primer for those new to his work and a supplemental resource for those already engaged with his thought.

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.

In his latest book, the influential critic Brian Massumi offers a new theory of political economy that demonstrates how emotional, affective and nonconscious decisions work together with rational self-interest in the shaping of neoliberalism. Massumi's analysis shows the potential for a new anti-capitalist politics.

In this original theory of power, Brian Massumi explains how the logic of preemption governs U.S. military policy in the War on Terror and how that logic spills over from the war front to the home front. Threats are now felt into reality and power refocuses on what may emerge. The mode of power embodying the logic of preemption is ontopower.

In this concise book, the noted theorist Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." Treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics, which he uses as the basis of an expanded notion of the political.

This text brings together a collection of essays that explore the implications of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of expression in a number of contemporary contexts - beauty versus modernism, reflection to postmodernism, sensation and politics, and the conditions of emergence.