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Signs and machines : capitalism and the production of subjectivity
- Title
- Signs and machines : capitalism and the production of subjectivity / Maurizio Lazzarato ; translated by Joshua David Jordan.
- Author
- Lazzarato, M. (Maurizio)
- Publication
- Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e), [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jordan, Joshua David
- Description
- 279 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Moving beyond the dualism of signifier and signified, Signs and Machines shows how signs act as "sign-operators" that enter directly into material flows and into the functioning of machines. Money, the stock market, price differentials, algorithms, and scientific equations and formulas constitute semiotic "motors" that make capitalism's social and technical machines run, bypassing representation and consciousness to produce social subjections and semiotic enslavements. Lazzarato contrasts Deleuze and Guattari's complex semiotics with the political theories of Jacques Rancière, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Paolo Virno, and Judith Butler, for whom language and the public space it opens still play a fundamental role. Lazzarato asks: What are the conditions necessary for political and existential rupture at a time when the production of subjectivity represents the primary and perhaps most important work of capitalism? What are the specific tools required to undo the industrial mass production of subjectivity undertaken by business and the state? What types of organization must we construct for a process of subjectivation that would allow us to escape the hold of social subjection and machinic enslavement? In addressing these questions, Signs and Machines takes on a task that is today more urgent than ever."--Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Semiotext(e) foreign agents series
- Uniform Title
- Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical (pages 251-279) references.
- Contents
- 1 Production and the Production of Subjectivity 23 -- 2 Signifying Semiologies and Asignifying Semiotics in Production and in the Production of Subjectivity 55 -- 3 Mixed Semiotics 95 -- 4 Conflict and Sign Systems 139 -- 5 "Scum" and the Critique of Performatives 169 -- 6 The Discursive and the Existential in the Production of Subjectivity 201 -- 7 Enunciation and Politics 225.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2238
- ISBN
- 9781584351306
- 1584351306
- LCCN
- 2012361533
- OCLC
- 861323140
- Author
- Lazzarato, M. (Maurizio), author.
- Title
- Signs and machines : capitalism and the production of subjectivity / Maurizio Lazzarato ; translated by Joshua David Jordan.
- Publisher
- Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e), [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Semiotext(e) foreign agents seriesSemiotext(e) foreign agents series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical (pages 251-279) references.
- Local Note
- TRANS. FROM FRENCH.
- Added Author
- Jordan, Joshua David, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2238