Brian Massumi

Infobox Philosopher
region = Western Philosophy
era = 20th- / 21st-century philosophy
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name = Brian Massumi
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death =
school_tradition = poststructuralism radical empiricism
main_interests = the virtual affect relation micropolitics
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influences = Deleuze·Guattari James Whitehead Bergson
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Brian Massumi is a philosopher, writer and political theorist. His work focuses on perception, affect and the virtual. Massumi's research spans the fields of art, architecture, political theory, cultural studies and philosophy. He teaches in the Communication Department of the Université de Montréal.

Massumi is also known for English-language translations of recent French philosophy, including Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition (with Geoffrey Bennington), Jacques Attali's Noise and Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus.

Massumi collaborates with [http://erinmanning.lunarpages.net Erin Manning] , director of the [http://www.senselab.ca/ Sense Lab] , a research-creation laboratory affiliated with the [http://www.sat.qc.ca Society for Art and Technology] . They also co-edit a book series at MIT Press entitled Technologies of Lived Abstraction and are founding members of the editorial collective of the Sense Lab journal [http://www.inflexions.org Inflexions: A Journal of Research-Creation] .

Works as author:

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"Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation" (Duke University Press, 2002)
"A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari" (MIT Press, 1992)
"First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot" (with Kenneth Dean; Autonomedia, 1993)

Works as editor:

"A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari" (Routledge, 2002)
"The Politics of Everyday Fear" (University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

External links

* [http://www.brianmassumi.com Website of BrianMassumi.com : a repository of Texts and news.]