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François Laruelle is professor emeritus at the University of Paris West Nanterre La Défence and the inventor of the science of philosophy, non-philosophy.

Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is theessential question Vilem Flusser asks in Post-History. This first Englishtranslation of Post-History brings to an Anglophone readership Flusser'sfirst critique of apparatus as the aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological model of present times.

Michel Serres is one of the rare contemporary philosophers to propose an open vision of the world founded on an alliance between the humanities and science.Randolph Burks is a Michel Serres scholar and translator.

In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor, he elucidates the distinction between science fiction, a genre in which science remains possible in spite of all the upheavals that may attend the world in which the tale takes place, and fiction outside-science, the literary concept he fashions in this book, a fiction in which science becomes impossible. With its investigations of the philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Popper, Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction broadens the inquiry that Meillassoux began in After Finitude, thinking through the concrete possibilities and consequences of a chaotic world in which human beings can no longer resort to science to ground their existence. It is a significant milestone in the work of an emerging philosopher, which will appeal to readers of both philosophy and literature. The text is followed by Isaac Asimov\u2019s essay \u201cThe Billiard Ball.\u201d

Those who are mad like Antonin Artaud, are they just as mad as he was? Madness, like the plague, is contagious, and everyone, from his psychiatrists to his disciples, family, and critics, everyone who gets close to Artaud, seems to participate in his delirium. Sylv\u00e8re Lotringer explores various embodiments of this shared delirium through what Artaud called \u201cmental dramas\u201d—a series of confrontations with his witnesses or \u201cpersecutors\u201d where we uncover the raw delirium at work, even in Lotringer himself. Mad Like Artaud does not intend to add one more layer of commentary to the bitter controversies that have been surrounding the cursed poet\u2019s work since his death in 1948, nor does it take sides among the different camps who are still haggling over his corpse. This book speaks of the site where \u201cmadness\u201d itself is simmering.

The French philosopher F\u00e9lix Guattari frequently visited Japan during the 1980s and organized exchanges between French and Japanese artists and intellectuals. His immersion into the \u201cmachinic eros\u201d of Japanese culture put him into contact with media theorists such as Tetsuo Kogawa and activists within the mini-FM community (Radio Home Run), documentary filmmakers (Mitsuo Sato), photographers (Keiichi Tahara), novelists (Kobo Abe), internationally recognized architects (Shin Takamatsu), and dancers (Min Tanaka). From pachinko parlors to high-rise highways, alongside corporate suits and among alt-culture comrades, Guattari put himself into the thick of Japanese becomings during a period in which the bubble economy continued to mutate. This collection of essays, interviews, and longer meditations shows a radical thinker exploring the architectural environment of Japan\u2019s \u201cmachinic eros.\u201d

From Almanac of Fall (1984) to The Turin Horse (2011), renowned Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr has followed the collapse of the communist promise. The "time after" is the time when we are less interested in histories and their successes or failures than we are in the delicate fabric of time from which they are carved.

Fernand Deligny was an experimental educator, novelist, and essayist known for his innovative work with children with severe autism. His creative practice concerning "the network as a mode of being" has influenced a variety of disciplines and thinkers.