{"product_id":"couplets-9781478013730","title":"Couplets","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCouplets\u003c\/i\u003e, Brian Massumi presents twenty-four essays that represent the full spectrum of his work during the past thirty years. Conceived as a companion volume to \u003ci\u003eParables for the Virtual\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCouplets\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the key concepts of \u003ci\u003eParables\u003c\/i\u003e from different angles and contextualizes them, allowing their stakes to be more fully felt. Rather than organizing the essays chronologically or by topic, Massumi pairs them into couplets to encourage readers to make connections across conventional subject matter categories, to encounter disjunctions, and to link different phases in the evolution of his work. In his analyses of topics ranging from art, affect, and architecture to media theory, political theory, and the philosophy of experience, Massumi charts a field on which a family of conceptual problems plays out in ways that bear on the potentials for acting and perceiving the world. As an essential guide to Massumi''s oeuvre, \u003ci\u003eCouplets\u003c\/i\u003e is both a primer for his n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This collection of essays, perhaps more than any other of his groundbreaking books, shows Brian Massumi to be a profoundly \u003ci\u003epolitical\u003c\/i\u003e thinker. Its analyses of capitalism are startling, radical, and convincing. And its presentation of domination and violence as the \u003ci\u003ecurtailment\u003c\/i\u003e of a more \u003ci\u003eprimary\u003c\/i\u003e force that is life-enhancing and life-changing will alter the way you think about the political future. Readers will also find elegant accounts of many of Massumi's key concepts, including perception, the virtual, affect, aesthetics (as that which pertains to qualities of experience), sympathy, the outside, dividuality, and the supernormal. A fabulous resource for thinking otherwise.” -- Jane Bennett, author of * Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCouplets\u003c\/i\u003e is both an extraordinary speculative and political toolbox for thinking about our time and a magnificent introduction to Brian Massumi's own work, which is undoubtedly among the most original in contemporary thought.” -- Didier Debaise, author of * Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible *\u003cbr\u003e\"Valuable as an experiential introduction to the work of Massumi-Deleuze. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\" -- R. M. Paddags * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote to the Reader  vii\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 1\u003cbr\u003e 2019. Extreme Realism: In Sixteen Series  2\u003cbr\u003e 1986. Realer Than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari  15\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 2\u003cbr\u003e 2000. On the Right of the Noncommunication of Cultural Difference 26\u003cbr\u003e 1998. Event Horizon  63\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 3\u003cbr\u003e 2017. Becoming Animal in the Literary Field  72\u003cbr\u003e 2008. The Virtual, Double Capture, and the Urban-Architecture Manifold  94\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 4\u003cbr\u003e 2009. Simondon's \"Technical Mentality\" Revisited  104\u003cbr\u003e 2012. The Supernormal Animal  119\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 5\u003cbr\u003e 1997. Sensing the Virtual, Building the Insensible  134\u003cbr\u003e 2004. Not Determinately Nothing: Building Experience  158\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 6\u003cbr\u003e 2014. The Crannies of the Present: On the Subject of Decision  177\u003cbr\u003e 2018. Dim, Massive, and Important: Atmosphere in Process  188\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 7\u003cbr\u003e 2005. Going Kinetic: What Is Decision in a Post-Deliberative World?  209\u003cbr\u003e 2005. Barely There: The Power of the Image at the Limit of Life  232\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 8\u003cbr\u003e 1995. Requiem for Our Prospective Dead: A Participatory Critique of Capitalist Power  286\u003cbr\u003e 2017. The Political Is Not Personal: Affect, Power, Violence  315\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 9\u003cbr\u003e 2001. Tell Me Where Your Pain Is: Pointing to the Body without an Image  324\u003cbr\u003e 2015. The Art of the Relational Body: From Mirror-Touch to the Virtual Body  342\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 10\u003cbr\u003e 2000. Parable of the Cave (Blind Version)  359\u003cbr\u003e 2003. Panoscopia  376\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 11\u003cbr\u003e 2003. Urban Appointment: A Possible Rendezvous with the City  376\u003cbr\u003e 1999. Purple Phosphene  402\u003cbr\u003e Couplet 12\u003cbr\u003e 2007. On Critique  406\u003cbr\u003e 2019. How Do You Make Yourself a Proposition? For a Whiteheadian Laboratory (with Erin Manning)  410\u003cbr\u003e Notes  427\u003cbr\u003e References  447\u003cbr\u003e Index  461\u003cbr\u003e Sources  485\u003cbr\u003e Image Credits  489","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408994115927,"sku":"9781478013730","price":77.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013730.jpg?v=1730505008","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/couplets-9781478013730","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}