Alexander R. Galloway Associate Professor Department of Media, Culture, and Communication New York University   books podcasts articles software teaching bio contact Two New Books!   BOOKS—I'm pleased to announce that The Interface Effect has just been published by Polity. Six years in the making, the book represents the culmination of my explorations into the aesthetics and politics of digital media. Read Patrick Jagoda's review in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Seb Franklin's review in Radical Philosophy. I'm also excited to report that my "French Theory Today" essays, somewhat expanded and reworked, have been published in French by Éditions Léo Scheer under the new title Les nouveaux réalistes: Philosophie et postfordisme. EULOGY—An homage to architect Lebbeus Woods, who passed away last year. ESSAYS—I have two new pieces that assess the current state of critical theory in different ways. The first essay, titled The Bachelor's Fantasy, is in the current issue of Camera Obscura. The second, The Poverty of Philosophy published in Critical Inquiry, tackles the question of speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy. I also have a chapter on Laruelle's marxism in the new book Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, and an essay on Laruelle's aesthetics in the current issue of continent.   BOOKS Slide show   FRENCH THEORY TODAY — An Introduction to Possible Futures Five essays by Alexander R. Galloway, with special responses and contributions from Nicola Masciandaro, Eugene Thacker, Dominic Pettman, Jackson Moore, Stephen Squibb, Prudence Whittlesey, Taeyoon Choi, and David Horvitz. Edited by Sarah Resnick, and designed by Kamomi Solidum and Anne Callahan. The Public School New York, 2010 Book page This set of five pamphlets documents a seminar at the Public School New York, a self-organizing educational program where class ideas are generated by the public. "French Theory Today" explores the work of a new generation of French voices—Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Quentin Meillassoux, and François Laruelle—whose writing has, to varying degrees, only recently emerged in the English-speaking world. Each night the seminar consisted of a lecture followed by questions from and discussion with class participants. As Galloway suggests in the online class proposal, the goal was "not to set in aspic a new canon for French philosophy, but to proceed inductively, tracing some recent experiments and possible futures." Pamphlet 1 | Catherine Malabou, or The Commerce in Being Pamphlet 2 | Bernard Stiegler, or Our Thoughts are With Control Pamphlet 3 | Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, or Unworkability Pamphlet 4 | Quentin Meillassoux, or The Great Outdoors Pamphlet 5 | François Laruelle, or The Secret Slide show   THE EXPLOIT — A Theory of Networks cowritten with Eugene Thacker University of Minnesota Press, 2007 Amazon.com book page publisher's book page Google Books "The Exploit is that rare thing: a book with a clear grasp of how networks operate that also understands the political implications of this emerging form of power. It cuts through the nonsense about how 'free' and 'democratic' networks supposedly are, and it offers a rich analysis of how network protocols create a new kind of control. Essential reading for all theorists, artists, activists, techheads, and hackers of the Net." —McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto Reviewed by Tiziana Terranova in Radical Philosophy Reviewed by T'ai Smith in Art Journal Reviewed at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Reviewed in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Slide show   GAMING — Essays on Algorithmic Culture University of Minnesota Press, 2006 Amazon.com book page publisher's book page Google Books "This is contemporary media theory at its best." —Lev Manovich, author of The Language of New Media Reviewed at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Reviewed at Rhizome.org Reviewed by author Steven Shaviro Reviewed by author Nick Montfort Reviewed at Gameology.org Reviewed by Olli Tapio Leino in Game Studies Interviewed by Paul Johnson on WPS1 radio Slide show   PROTOCOL — How Control Exists After Decentralization MIT Press, 2004 Amazon.com book page publisher's book page Google Books Download: Chapter One, Index "An engaging methodological hybrid of the Frankfurt School and UNIX for Dummies... Galloway brings the uncool question of morality back into critical thinking" (more) —Ed Halter in The Village Voice "Expressing some startling new lines of thought with refreshingly straightforward clarity, Galloway reminds all of us why thinking about networks and their protocols is so relevant to our time. From FTP to fluxus or Deleuze to DNS, these are the connections that need to be made between the models competing to be our reality." —Douglas Rushkoff, author of Media Virus, Coercion, and Nothing Sacred TRANSLATION   TIQQUN Introduction to Civil War Semiotext(e), 2010 Amazon.com book page distributors's book page Translated from the French by Alexander R. Galloway and Jason E. Smith.