Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity

by Maurizio Lazzarato

Book Overview

An analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other "good," and what would allow us to escape its hold.

"Capital is a semiotic operator" this assertion by F lix Guattari is at the heart of Maurizio Lazzarato's Signs and Machines, which asks us to leave behind the logocentrism that still informs so many critical theories. Lazzarato calls instead for a new theory capable of explaining how signs function in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584351306
• ISBN13: 9781584351306
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher