Jesse S. Cohn is author of Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011 and is translator of numerous works, including Daniel Colson's Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze.
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Contents Acknowledgments Part I: Escape from the Great Sorting Machine Introduction 1. Predictive Analytics for Monstrous Times 2. Sublime Machines: Valves of the Heart 3. Methodological Metafetishism 4. Unbarring the Other Part II: The Fantastic within and Beyond Modernity 5. Notes toward a Rhetoric of the Fantastic 6. Rhetorics of the Impossible 7. Rhetorical Sovereignty Part III: Toward a Multiplicative Realism 8. The Rhetoric of Fictive Science, Or: The Academy of Outrageous Books 9. How the Gordin Brothers Escaped Western Gravity Part IV: Fantastic Politics in an Imperiled Pluriverse 10. Unicorn Rhetoric 11. The Fantastic from Counterpublic to Public Imaginary 12. Acting Supernaturally (With Notes on the Monster of Anarchy) Appendix: A Provisional Manifesto for Nonmodern Anarchisms Notes Bibliography Index
Hot Equations opens compelling new approaches to the study of science fiction and demonstrates the immense value of anarchist and antifascist analyses in the field." - James Gifford, author of A Modernist Fantasy: Anarchism, Modernism, and the Radical Fantastic "The culmination of decades of experience, Hot Equations is an exciting entry in the anarchist study of science fiction/fantasy and literature." - Andrew Culp, professor of media history and theory at California Institute of the Arts and author of Dark Deleuze