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Coma

Pierre Guyotat
Translated by Noura Wedell

Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverberates and feels and throbs all over, it begins to circumscribe my body along with my self, and my body gives it shape in turn: the "joy" of living, of experiencing, of already foreseeing dismembers it, this entire body explodes, neurons rush toward what attracts them, zones of sensation break off almost in blocks that come to rest at the four corners of the landscape, at the four corners of Creation.
— from Coma

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Introduction to Civil War

Tiqqun
Translated by Alexander R. Galloway and Jason E. Smith

"Society no longer exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is only a tangle of norms and mechanisms through which THEY hold together the scattered tatters of the global biopolitical fabric, through which THEY prevent its violent disintegration. Empire is the administrator of this desolation, the supreme manager of a process of listless implosion."
— from Introduction to Civil War

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Crisis in the Global Economy
Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios

Edited by Andrea Fumagalli and Sandro Mezzadra
Translated by Jason Francis Mc Gimsey
Afterword by Antonio Negri

Crisis in the Global Economy is the latest and most innovative collective reflection on the state of global capitalism, developed in the mobile "multiversity" of the UniNomade network of international researchers and activists during the months immediately following the first signals of the current financial and economic crisis. It constitutes the first organic and interdisciplinary attempt to analyze a crisis that is not merely financial in nature but implicates globalization and neoliberal capitalism.

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A Thousand Machines
A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement

Gerald Raunig

Edited by Andrea Fumagalli and Sandro Mezzadra
Translated by Jason Francis Mc Gimsey
Afterword by Antonio Negri

In this "concise philosophy of the machine," Gerald Raunig provides a historical and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze: the machine, not as a technical device and apparatus, but as a social composition and concatenation. This conception of the machine as an arrangement of technical, bodily, intellectual, and social components subverts the opposition between man and machine, organism and mechanism, individual and community.