Epidemic subjects – radical ontology

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This book places itself at an epochal rift that is marked by a large-scale change within the concept of subjectivity, succinctly put: its implosion, revision and re-invention. It is a crisis of subjectivity that is also a crisis of sovereignty, collectivity, identity, nationality. Yet alongside the total dissolution of any authoritative legitimation of identity, knowledge and power given by philosophy, a vacuum emerges where new conceptions of subjectivity can evolve. The contributors try to engage a type of subjectivity that is as flat or horizontal and inclusive as possible: based on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the Girl as heuristic tool, as a "larval subject," they don't miss to put anew the question of the Social and its foundation. A necessary supplement to the conception of the "thing" or "object" privileged by Speculative Realism and other New Materialism theories. Contributions by renowned authors as Levi Bryant, Rosi Braidotti, Eric Alliez, Peter Sloterdijk, Patricia McCormack, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela Melitopoulos and others.