Collecting Intensities : On Semiotext(e) and Schizo-Culture

In November Of 1975, the “Schizo-Culture” conference on madness and prisons, organized by Sylvère Lotringer, and held at Columbia University in New York, saw French Theory coming to America alongside an American avant-garde which, like French Theory, did not conceive itself unified under a title, or as a group. I use the term “French Theory” here somewhat ironically, like François Cusset’s anglicized title for a book that is otherwise written in French : “French Theory” is always a term that ..