The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female.She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality.--from Theoryof the Young-GirlFirst pub
In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecologymutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn't just create the conditions for the murdersof dozens of women
This first English-language edition of Christian Marazzi's most recent book, The Violence of Financial Capitalism, makes a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to a new audien
A founder of Queer theory contends that the ruling classes have inventedhomosexuality as a sexual ghetto, splitting and mutilating desire in the process.
Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that
Poet and post-punk hero Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Myles travels the city—wandering on garbage-strewn New
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. I
The writings of an Israeli journalist who has chosen to live in a Palestinian town in order to provide a firsthand description of what daily life is like for the population.
A novel set in 1991, post-MTV, pre-AOL: Sylvie, longing for a life more like the TVshow thirtysomething, sets off with her husband, Columbia University professor Jerome, to Romania toadopt a child.
Burroughs Live gathers all the interviews, both published and unpublished, given by William Burroughs, as well as conversations with well-known writers, artists, and musicians such as Tenessee Willia
In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus argues for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor "self-esteem."
An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism."Death has become the most profitable business in existence." -- from Gore CapitalismWritten
A "dissident of the gender-sex binary system" reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet
A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS. First published by Gallimard in 1990, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life d
Now is the phantom chapter to the Invisible Committee's previous book, To Our Friends: a new critique from the anonymous collective that establishes their opposition to the world of capital and its l
What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can af
The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged from campus bulletin boards to Fox News
You can say I write stories with sex and violence and therefore my writing isn'tworth considering because it uses content much less lots of content. Well, I tell you this: 'Pricklyrace, who know nothi
