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Crisis and Criticism is an incisive series of critical interventions that analyses the literary, cultural and political reactions to the ongoing crises of the present and emphasises the need for ruthless criticism to overcome fatalist treatments of crisis as natural.

»Work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger«, sang die französische Band Daft Punk 2001 und schuf damit im anbrechenden Jahrtausend die bis heute gültige Hymne für den Kapitalismus. Denn entgegen dem mit fortschreitender Automatisierung einhergegangenen Versprechen von Entlastung und mehr Freizeit werden Arbeitszeiten länger, Anforderungen höher, kommt es zu immer größerem Innovations- wie Produktionsdruck bei gleichzeitig...

A critical intervention on the relationship between language and matter. If the twentieth century was the century in which language was at the center of thought, the twenty-first century has, so far, been the century of matter. The Matter of Language is a critical intervention that aims to return to the relationship between language and matter to think of our present moment as one dominated by abstractions that rule our lives. In a series of d...

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A concise guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated The Story of the Eye.

Western culture has always been obsessed with death, but now death has taken on a new, anonymous form. The twentieth century saw the mass production of corpses through war and the triumph of technology over the human body. The new millennium has opened with global terrorism and the suspension of human rights in far-flung prison camps.We live in an age of panic, when the fear of death at any time and in any place is present. And we live in an a...

Against the need for speed, Malign Velocities tracks acceleration as the symptom of the ongoing crises of capitalism.

This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day - surrealism and existentialism - and shows that it was his very marginality that accounted in large part for his subsequent importance for the post-structuralists and the counter...