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Sylvère Lotringer (15 October 1938, Paris, France - 8 November 2021, Ensenada, Baja California) was a French born literary critic and cultural theorist initially based in New York City who lived in Los Angeles and Baja California, Mexico. He is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements as founder of the journal ''Semiotext(e)''.
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[[Image:Sylvere_Lotringer_ca_1990.jpg|thumb|350px|Sylvère Lotringer, ca. 1990]]
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[[Image:Sylvere_Lotringer_et_al_1980.jpg|thumb|350px|Peter Orlovsky, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Victor Bockris, John Giorno, Sylvère Lotringer, and James Grauerholz at Burroughs’s Bunker, New York, 1980. Photo: Marcia Resnick]]
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[[Image:Sylvere Lotringer 1992.jpg|thumb|350px|Sylvère Lotringer in New York, 1992. Photo: Bob Berg.]]
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'''Sylvère Lotringer''' (15 October 1938, Paris, France - 8 November 2021, Ensenada, Baja California) was a French born literary critic and cultural theorist initially based in New York City who lived in Los Angeles and Baja California, Mexico. He is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements as founder of the journal ''Semiotext(e)''.
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* ''Semiotext(e)'', journal, 1974-
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** [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=9942 ''Semiotext(e)'' 3(1): "Nietzsche’s Return"], ed. Sylvère Lotringer, 1978.
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** [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=4996 ''Semiotext(e)'' 3(3): "Autonomia: Post-Political Politics"], eds. Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi, 1980.
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** [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=3350 ''Semiotext(e)'', 3(2): "Schizo-Culture"], ed. Sylvère Lotringer, 1978.
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** [[Media:Semiotexte_10_Polysexuality_1981.pdf|''Semiotext(e)'' 10: "Polysexuality"]], ed. François Peraldi, 1981; repr., 1995.
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** [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23395 ''Semiotext(e)'' 5(2): "SF"], eds. Rudy Rucker, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Robert Anton Wilson, 1989.
  
 
* [[Schizo-Culture]] event, 1975.
 
* [[Schizo-Culture]] event, 1975.
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* Henry Schwarz, Anne Balsamo, [[Media:Schwarz_Balsamo_1996_Under_the_Sign_of_Semiotexte_The_Story_According_to_Sylvere_Lotringer_and_Chris_Kraus.pdf|"Under the Sign of Semiotext(e): The Story According to Sylvere Lotringer and Chris Kraus"]], ''Critique'' 37:3, Spring 1996, pp 205-220.
 
* Henry Schwarz, Anne Balsamo, [[Media:Schwarz_Balsamo_1996_Under_the_Sign_of_Semiotexte_The_Story_According_to_Sylvere_Lotringer_and_Chris_Kraus.pdf|"Under the Sign of Semiotext(e): The Story According to Sylvere Lotringer and Chris Kraus"]], ''Critique'' 37:3, Spring 1996, pp 205-220.
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* [http://semiotexte.com/?p=121 "My 80's: Better Than Life"], ''Artforum'', Apr 2003.
 
* [http://semiotexte.com/?p=121 "My 80's: Better Than Life"], ''Artforum'', Apr 2003.
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* David Morris, [https://frieze.com/article/books-26 "Four Decades of Semiotext(e)"], ''Frieze'', 9 Sep 2013.
 
* David Morris, [https://frieze.com/article/books-26 "Four Decades of Semiotext(e)"], ''Frieze'', 9 Sep 2013.
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* Jason Demers, [https://books.openedition.org/pupo/2979?lang=en "Collecting Intensities: On Semiotext(e) and Schizo-Culture"], in ''Frontières, marges et confins'', ed. Corinne Alexandre-Garner, Nanterre: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2014, pp 415-423.
 
* Jason Demers, [https://books.openedition.org/pupo/2979?lang=en "Collecting Intensities: On Semiotext(e) and Schizo-Culture"], in ''Frontières, marges et confins'', ed. Corinne Alexandre-Garner, Nanterre: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2014, pp 415-423.
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* [http://thirdrailquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/thirdrail_2015_Issue6_final_lotringer_thomas.pdf "Sylvère Lotringer Interviewed by Jonathan Tomas"], ''Third Rail'' 6, 2015.
 
* [http://thirdrailquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/thirdrail_2015_Issue6_final_lotringer_thomas.pdf "Sylvère Lotringer Interviewed by Jonathan Tomas"], ''Third Rail'' 6, 2015.
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* ''Initiales'' 12: "S.L. (Sylvère Lotringer)", eds. François Aubart and François Piron, Lyon: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Nov 2018, 128 pp. [https://www.revueinitiales.com/sylvere-lotringer] [https://www.franceculture.fr/conferences/fondation-dentreprise-ricard/initiales-la-revue-sylvere-lotringer] [https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=6829] {{fr}}
 
* ''Initiales'' 12: "S.L. (Sylvère Lotringer)", eds. François Aubart and François Piron, Lyon: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Nov 2018, 128 pp. [https://www.revueinitiales.com/sylvere-lotringer] [https://www.franceculture.fr/conferences/fondation-dentreprise-ricard/initiales-la-revue-sylvere-lotringer] [https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=6829] {{fr}}
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* [https://www.artforum.com/print/202202/hedi-el-kholti-and-chris-kraus-on-sylvere-lotringer-87688 "Hedi El Kholti and Chris Kraus on Sylvère Lotringer"], ''Artforum'', Feb 2022.
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* [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/semio/ Guide to the Sylvère Lotringer Papers and Semiotext(e) Archive, 1960-2000], NYU.
 
* [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/semio/ Guide to the Sylvère Lotringer Papers and Semiotext(e) Archive, 1960-2000], NYU.
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* Obituaries: [https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/theory-daddy McKenzie Wark] (New Left Review), [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-11-18/appreciation-sylvere-lotringer-made-book-publishing-safe-for-dangerous-ideas David L. Ulin] (LA Times).
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Sylvère Lotringer, ca. 1990
Peter Orlovsky, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Victor Bockris, John Giorno, Sylvère Lotringer, and James Grauerholz at Burroughs’s Bunker, New York, 1980. Photo: Marcia Resnick
Sylvère Lotringer in New York, 1992. Photo: Bob Berg.

Sylvère Lotringer (15 October 1938, Paris, France - 8 November 2021, Ensenada, Baja California) was a French born literary critic and cultural theorist initially based in New York City who lived in Los Angeles and Baja California, Mexico. He is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements as founder of the journal Semiotext(e).

  • Initiales 12: "S.L. (Sylvère Lotringer)", eds. François Aubart and François Piron, Lyon: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Nov 2018, 128 pp. [1] [2] [3] (French)