Maurizio Lazzarato is a philosopher and sociologist. In the 1970s, he was involved with the Autonomia Operaia movement in Italy and was a founding member of the French journal Multitudes. His books in English include Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity (2014) and Governing by Debt (2015). Jay Hetrick is assistant professor of art history and theory at the College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah.
This elegant translation makes available to Maurizio Lazzarato's growing English readership the theoretical cornerstone of his intellectual project, and puts into context his collaborative practice in video art. Videophilosophy makes an indispensable contribution to the philosophy of time and technology amidst and against the proliferation of contemporary capitalist subjectivities. -- Gary Genosko, author of <i>When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy</i> Like his comrade Antonio Negri, Maurizio Lazzarato has dedicated himself to exploring the less-traveled paths of modern thought in search of alternatives to capitalist modernity. In Videophilosophy, that exploration produces stunning results. Drawing on Bergson, Nietzsche, Vertov, Nam June Paik, and Bill Viola, Lazzarato constructs an innovative and compelling sequel to two of the most revolutionary texts in media studies: Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books and Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility.' -- Timothy Murphy, author of <i>Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude</i>