Brian Massumi
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Brian Massumi (born 1956) is a Canadian social theorist. Massumi's research spans the fields of art, architecture, political theory, cultural studies and philosophy. He received his Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University in 1987. He is also known for English-language translations of recent French philosophy, including Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition (with Geoffrey Bennington), Jacques Attali's Noise and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus.
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Works as author
- A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press, 1992) (ISBN 0262631431)
- First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (with Kenneth Dean ; Autonomedia, 1993) (ISBN 0936756772)
- Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, 2002) (ISBN 0822328976)
- Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (MIT Press, 2011) (ISBN 0262134918)
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Work as editor
- Theory Out of Bounds University of Minnesota Press book series, 1993-2007. Co-edited with Michael Hardt and Sandra Buckley.
- The Politics of Everyday Fear (University of Minnesota Press, 1993) (ISBN 0816621632)
- A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2002) (ISBN 0415238048)
- Technologies of Lived Abstraction MIT Press book series, begun 2009. Co-edited with Erin Manning.
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