Joan Broadhurst Dixon, Eric J. Cassidy (eds.): Virtual Futures. Cyberotics, Technology and Posthuman Pragmatism (1998)

“Virtual Futures explores the ideas that the future lies in its ability to articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic and virtual world. New technologies like cyberspace, the internet, and Chaos theory are often discussed in the context of technology and its potential to liberate or in terms of technophobia. This collection examines both these ideas while also charting a new and controversial route through contemporary discourses on technology; a path that discusses the material evolution and the erotic relation between humans and machines. Including essays by Sadie Plant, Stelarc and Manuel de Landa, the collection heralds the death of humanism and the rise of posthuman pragmatism. This collection provides analyses by both established theorists and the most innovative new voices working in conjunction between the arts and contemporary technology.”

Keywords and phrases
Neuromancer, telepathy, cybernetic, Freud, body without organs, pleasure principle, deterritorialization, Lyotard, postmodern, fascism, cyborg, cyberspace, metaphysic of presence, Hebrew alphabet, Talmud, Cybergothic, Habiru, University of Warwick, pictographic, schizoanalysis

Publisher Routledge, 1998
ISBN 0415133793, 9780415133791
125 pages

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Manuel DeLanda: A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006)

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entitles, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the conceptions we have of them. This highly original and important book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at a time all the way to territorial states and beyond. Only by experiencing this upward movement can we get a sense of the irreducible social complexity that characterizes the contemporary world.

Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006
ISBN 0826491693, 9780826491695
142 pages

Keywords and phrases
deterritorialization, Gilles Deleuze, Fernand Braudel, Manuel DeLanda, Thousand Plateaus, Felix Guattari, Anthony Giddens, Charles Tilly, causal, Max Weber, Ian Hacking, emergent properties, Pierre Bourdieu, nation-states, assemblage theory, economies of agglomeration, interac, phase space, linguistic, Michel Foucault

review (Steven Shaviro)
commentary from DeLanda reading group: Introduction (Levi Bryant); Chapter I (Levi Bryant); Chapter II (Alex Reid); Chapter III (Michael~); Chapter IV, part 1 & part 2 (Mark Edward); Chapter V

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Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1980–) [FR, IT, EN, ES, BR-PT, RU, CR]

“A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important place at the center of the debate reassessing the works of Freud and Marx, advancing an approach that is neither Freudian nor Marxist but which learns from both to find an entirely new and radical path. It presents an attempt to pioneer a variety of social and psychological analyses free of the philosophical encumbrances criticized by postmodern writers. A Thousand Plateaus is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.”

Publisher Les Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1980
Volume 2 of Capitalisme et Schizophrénie
ISBN 2707303070
645 pages

English edition
Translation and Foreword by Brian Massumi
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1987
ISBN 0816614024, 9780816614028
xix+610 pages

Key words and phrases: deterritorialization, abstract machine, rhizome, body without organs, semiotic, haecceities, war machine, stratum, black hole, nomad, fascism, destratification, psychoanalysis, line of flight, Gilles Deleuze, molar, haptic, schizoanalysis, surplus value, Paul Virilio

Review: Sander L. Gilman (Journal of Interdisciplinary History 1989).

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Mille plateaux (French, 1980, 7 MB, added on 2015-3-24, updated on 2016-8-3)
A Thousand Plateaus (English, trans. Brian Massumi, 1987, 6 MB, updated on 2019-8-19)
Mille piani: capitalismo e schizofrenia (Italian, trans. Giorgio Passerone, 1987/2003, 10 MB, added on 2016-8-3)
Mil mesetas: capitalismo y esquizofrenia (Spanish, trans. José Vázquez Pérez with Umbelina Larraceleta, 1988, 23 MB, added on 2016-8-3)
Mil platôs: capitalismo e esquizofrenia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (BR-Portuguese, trans. Ana Lúcia de Oliveira, et al., 1995-97, added on 2016-8-3)
Kapitalizm i shizofreniya: tysyacha plato (Russian, trans. Ya.I. Svirsky, 2010, DJV, 11 MB, added on 2016-8-3)
Kapitalizam i shizofrenija 2. Tisuću platoa (Croatian, trans. Marko Gregorić, 2013, 19 MB, added on 2021-3-24)