This cutting-edge collection of philosophical writing defies easy categorization, containing interviews with Julia Kristeva, Craig Ellwood, Todd Alden, Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault, interspersed with work by Bob Flannagan, Eileen Myles and others. Even the typography works against the attempt to categorize, so that the reader careens from interview to work without clear demarcations. Is it a journal? Is it an anthology? Is it art? In the particular world of this book, the answer is more or less.
Sylvère Lotringer (born in 1938 in Paris, France) is a literary critic and cultural theorist. A younger contemporary of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and Michel Foucault, he is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements through his work with Semiotext(e); and for his interpretations of French theory in a 21st-century context. An influential interpreter of Jean Baudrillard's theories, Lotringer invented the concept "extrapolationist" as a means of describing the hyperbolic world-views espoused by Baudrillard and Paul Virilio. Lotringer is a Professor of Foreign Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.