Database
Semiotext(e)
1974
Description:
Sylvère Lotringer started Semiotext(e) with a group of friends and grad students at Columbia University in 1974. It quickly evolved from a journal of semiotic theory to a popular magazine, juxtaposing high theory and underground culture, after the publication of the “Schizo-Culture” issue in 1978. The issue brought together artists and thinkers as diverse as Gilles Deleuze, Kathy Acker, John Cage, Michel Foucault, Jack Smith, William Burroughs, and Lee Breuer. Other classic issues of the magazine, such as “Autonomia” from 1980 (with contributions by Tony Negri, Franco Berardi, Christian Marazzi, Paolo Virno) or “Polysexuality” from 1981 (with contributions by Tony Duvert, Pierre Guyotat, and others) can be seen as the matrix of what we’re doing now. The journal wound down as people went their own ways, and Sylvère began the Foreign Agents imprint in 1983, beginning with the enormously influential Simulations by Jean Baudrillard. He was personally in touch with most of the French theoristsFélix Guattari, Jean Lyotard, Paul Virilio, etc.and proceeded to introduce their writings to people in the US. In 1990, Chris Kraus started the Native Agents imprint, a series of fiction books by mostly female American writers, including Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, Eileen Myles, David Rattray, Ann Rower, Lynne Tillman, and many others.
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- Website: http://semiotexte.com/
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- Editors: Hedi El Kholti
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