Brian Massumi Philosopher

Brian Massumi (born 1956) is a Canadian social theorist, writer and philosopher. Massumi's research spans the fields of art, architecture, political theory, cultural studies and philosophy. He is widely known for his English-language translations of recent French philosophy, including Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition (with Geoffrey Bennington), Jacques Attali's Noise and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus.

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Era
20th-century philosophy
Contemporary philosophy
Main interest
Virtuality
Affect (philosophy)

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Philosopher

influenced by
philosophical school
Post-structuralism
Radical empiricism
region
Western philosophy

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Brian Massumi on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/technologies-lived-abstraction
  2. http://www.anu.edu.au/HRC/first_and_last/links/massumi_works.htm
  3. http://www.brianmassumi.com
  4. http://www.inflexions.org
  5. http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_3/node_i3/massumi_en_inflexions_vol03.html
  6. http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/toob.html