Brian Massumi

Author of A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari

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Brian Massumi is author of numerous works across philosophy, political theory, and art theory. His publications include 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto (Minnesota, 2018); Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts; and Parables for the Virtual: show more Movement. Affect. Sensation. show less

Works by Brian Massumi

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (2002) 231 copies, 1 review

What Animals Teach Us about Politics (2014) 46 copies

Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (2011) 36 copies

Politics of Affect (2015) 36 copies

A Shock to Thought: Expressions After Deleuze and Guattari (2002) 36 copies

First & Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (Autonomedia New Autonomy) (1992) 31 copies, 1 review

Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception (2010) 30 copies

The Politics of Everyday Fear (1993) — Editor — 28 copies

The Power at the End of the Economy (2014) 22 copies

99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto (2018) 15 copies

The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life (Thought in the Act) (2025) 12 copies

Interact or Die: There Is Drama In The Networks (2007) 9 copies

Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism (Thought in the Act) (2021) 9 copies

Architectures of the unforeseen : essays in the occurent arts (2019) 3 copies

Deleuze, Guattari, and the Philosophy of Expression 1 copy

Users guide to Deleuze and Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia 1 copy

L'économie contre elle-même: Vers un art anti-capitaliste de l'événement (2018) 1 copy

The Principle of Unrest: Activist Philosophy in the Expanded Field (Immediations) (2017) 1 copy

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Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (2009) — Foreword — 115 copies, 2 reviews

Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death (2011) — Contributor — 22 copies

Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise (2012) — Contributor — 19 copies

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Isham.Cook 366 reviews

First and Last Emperors: Absolute State and Body of the Despot (Autonomedia New Autonomy Series) by Kenneth Dean

Witty, goofy, readable poststructuralist mini-classic, critical-semiotic reading of "Reagan" (always in quotes) and the "the Bush-thing."

Apr 22, 2026

luckycloud 13 reviews

A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari by Brian Massumi

An incredibly valuable stepping-stone to actually understanding Deleuze and Guattari. If you get Deleuze on your own, then you're a better person than I am and I owe you a batch of cookies.

Nov 10, 20101 other review

dagseoul 65 reviews

A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari by Brian Massumi

playful massumi calls his ideas deviations...ha! well that's a joke in d&g land folks.

great primer.

Mar 30, 20131 other review

dagseoul 65 reviews

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Brian Massumi