Brian Massumi

Brian Massumi (* 1956 ) is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist . His research encompasses the fields of art, architecture , cultural studies and philosophy . He received his PhD in French Literature from Yale University in 1987.

Massumi lives and works with the Canadian artist and philosopher Erin Manning , director of the Sense Lab, a society for art and technology in Montreal .

He currently teaches at the Université de Montréal in the Department of Communication Studies . Brian Massumi has taught and lectured at Cornell University (2010), the University of Helsinki / Turku (2009), the University of London (2008) and the University of California, Los Angeles (2000).

Fonts

• with Kenneth Dean: First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot. Autonomedia, 1993, ISBN 0-936756-77-2 .
• The Politics of Everyday Fear. University of Minnesota Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8166-2163-2 .
• with Michael Hardt , Sandra Buckley (Eds.): Theory Out of Bounds. University of Minnesota Press book series, 1993-2007.
• with Erin Manning (Ed.): Technologies of Lived Abstraction. MIT Press book series, started in 2009.
• Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Duke University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8223-2882-8 .
• A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari. Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-23804-8 .
• Onto power. Art, affect and the event of the political. With a foreword by Erin Manning . Translated from the English by Claudia Weigel. Merve, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88396-290-0 .
• Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts. MIT Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-262-13491-0 .
• with Erin Manning , Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience. University of Minnesota Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8166-7967-6 .
• What Animals Teach Us about Politics. Duke University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8223-5800-8 .
• The power at the end of the economy. Duke University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8223-5838-1 .
• Politics of Affect. Polity Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-7456-8981-4 .
• Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception. Duke University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8223-5995-1 .
• The Principle of Unrest: Activist Philosophy in the Expanded Field. Open Humanities Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-7854-2044-3 .
• 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-5179-0587-3 .
• Architectures of the Unforeseen: Essays in the Occurrent Arts. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5179-0596-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Private website. ( English ) Erin Manning . Retrieved December 24, 2010.
2. ^ Sense Lab. Laboratory for thought in motion. ( English ) Concordia University . Retrieved December 24, 2010.
3. ↑ Contact. ( English ) Société des arts technologiques. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
4. ^ Thought into Motion: The Energetics of Abstraction. Plenary lecture for the Society for the Humanities public workshop, "Critical Mobilities: Thought, Culture, and Performance." ( French ) Cornell University . April 29, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
5. ↑ Negotiating freedom in art, culture and media. Regulated Liberties. 1st Rethinking Art Studies (REARS) Conference ( English ) University of Helsinki . August 20, 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
6. ^ Technologies of lived abstraction. Workshop with Franco Berardi, Bracha Ettinger, Erin Manning and Brian Massumi. Helsinki / Turku. 20.-22. August 2009. The workshop is part of the Guattari Master Class ( English ) Molecular Organization. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
7. ^ The Society of Molecules: Prof. Brian Massumi and Dr. Erin Manning on Guattari ( English ) Goldsmiths', University of London . April 25, 2008. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
8. ^ The Parable of the Cave. Talk by Brian Massumi ( English ) University of California, Los Angeles . April 17, 2000. Retrieved December 24, 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Brian Massumi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brian Massumi website with publications, texts and links
• Brian Massumi on culturebase.net