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Brian Massumi

Brian Massumi is a philosopher and political theorist. His publications include Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation and Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (forthcoming 2011). He is a professor in the communication department at the University of Montreal

September 2011

  • 10 years of terror
    Brian Massumi: 'Hair-trigger action replaced deliberation in the Bush era' - video

    10 years of terror: Philosopher Brian Massumi on a mindset that only sees safety in action against threats that haven't yet emerged – Donald Rumsfeld's famous unknown unknowns

April 2011

  • Junior high school students return home through the rubble in Yamamoto, Miyagi, Japan

    The half-life of disaster

    Brian Massumi
    Brian Massumi: The world's media-driven nerves quickly move from shock to vague foreboding and 'disaster capitalism' surges on
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