Brian Massumi

Brian Massumi (* 1956 ) is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist. His research include the areas of art, architecture, cultural studies and philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in French Literature from Yale University in 1987.

Massumi lives and works with the Canadian artist and philosopher Erin Manning, director of the Sense Lab, a company of Arts and Technology in Montreal.

He currently teaches at the Université de Montréal in the Department of Communication Sciences. Brian Massumi has taught and lectured among others at Cornell University (2010), at the University of Helsinki / Turku (2009), and University of London (2008) and the University of California, Los Angeles ( 2000).

Writings

• The Politics of Everyday Fear. University of Minnesota Press, 1993, ISBN 0,816,621,632th
• With Michael Hardt, Sandra Buckley (ed.): Theory Out of Bounds. University of Minnesota Press book series, from 1993 to 2007.
• Erin Manning (eds.): Technologies of Lived Abstraction. MIT Press book series, begun in 2009.
• Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Duke University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8223-2882-8.
• A Shock to Thought: Expression after Deleuze and Guattari. Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0,415,238,048th
• Ontomacht. Art, affect, and the political event. With a foreword by Erin Manning. Translated from English by Claudia Weigel. Merve, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88396-290-0.
• Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the occurrent arts MIT Press, 2011, ISBN 0262134918