Signs and Machines
Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2014
Summary
An analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to escape its hold.“Capital is a semiotic operator”- this assertion by Felix Guattari is at the heart of Maurizio Lazzarato’s Signs and Machines, which asks us to leave behind the logocentrism that still informs so many critical theories. Lazzarato calls instead for a new theory capable of explaining how signs function in the economy, in power apparatuses, and in the production of subjecti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584351306 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584351306 |
| Author: | Maurizio Lazzarato, Joshua David Jordan |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 422g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Signs and Machines |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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About The Author
Maurizio Lazzarato
Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and philosopher in Paris. He is the author of Governing by Debt and Signs and Machines- Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity, both published by Semiotext(e).
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