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Two New Books!
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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.
There are also two shorter reviews available in
French
and Italian.
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 three new pieces on Laruelle,
a chapter on Laruelle's
marxism in the new book Laruelle
and Non-Philosophy, an essay
on Laruelle's aesthetics in the current issue of continent, and
a review of Laruelle's recent book Théorie générale des victimes in Parrhesia.
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 BOOKS
Slide show
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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
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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
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