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Biographical note
Brian Massumi is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist, and, until recently, Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of many books, including Ontopower, The Power at the End of the Economy, and What Animals Teach Us about Politics, all also published by Duke University Press.“This collection of essays, perhaps more than any other of his groundbreaking books, shows Brian Massumi to be a profoundly <i>political</i> thinker. Its analyses of capitalism are startling, radical, and convincing. And its presentation of domination and violence as the <i>curtailment</i> of a more <i>primary</i> 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
“<i>Couplets</i> 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
"Valuable as an experiential introduction to the work of Massumi-Deleuze. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."
- R. M. Paddags, Choice