Brian Massumi
| Brian Massumi | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Era | 20th- / 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Poststructuralism, radical empiricism, affect theory |
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Main interests
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Virtual, affect, micropolitics, complexity, political economy |
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.
He received his Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University in 1987. Massumi emigrated to Canada from the United States in 1988, and is currently teaching at Université de Montréal, in the Communication Sciences Department. Massumi has taught and lectured internationally at Cornell University (2010),European Graduate School (2010), University of Helsinki/Turku (2009), Goldsmiths', University of London (2008) and University of California, Los Angeles (2000). In 2009 / 2010 Massumi was a Senior Scholar in Residence at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Massumi is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (2002) and Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (2011) among other books. He is editor of The Politics of Everyday Fear (1993) and A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari (2002).
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