From Rhizomes, a review of Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics by Anna Munster; a review of The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation by Thomas Lamarre; a review of The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments by J. D. Applen and Rudy McDaniel; a review of Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control by Raiford Guins; a review of Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space; a review of Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology by Andre Nusselder. From Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, and a review of Capitalism and the Dialectic: The Uno-Sekine Approach to Marxian Political Economy by John R. Bell; a review of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher; a review of Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou and Badiou’s Being and Event: A Reader’s Guide by Christopher Norris; and a review of Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere (and more). From the latest issue of The Symptom, Alain Badiou on the courage of the present and contemporary obscurantism; Slavoj Zizek on Deleuze and the Lacanian Real and the neighbor in burka; Marina Lusa on a very natural woman; Pierre-Gilles Gueguen on women and the phallus; and Eric Laurent on disparity in love.
