Wagner@Univocal

Jason Wagner, Publisher, Designer, Printer @ Univocal Publishing, an independent publishing house specializing in artisanal editions of texts ranging from philosophy, art, technology, poetry, and more.

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Desert Dreamers cover in progress: http://www.univocalpublishing.com/univocal-books/desert-dreamers

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The Different Modes of Existence by Étienne Souriau

Exploring the aesthetic depths of the various modes of existence by one of France’s most heralded but forgotten thinkers of existential pluralism.

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Cartography of Exhaustion: Nihilism Inside Out by Peter Pál Pelbart

A meditation on the possibility of fighting off the exhaustion of our contemporary age of communicative and connective excess.

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ABC of Impossibility by Simon Critchley

An experimental text of para-philosophical fragments working toward a poetic ontology

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Cosmic Pessimism by Eugene Thacker

A series of aphorisms, fragments, and poems exploring pessimism and its often conflicted relation to philosophy

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Mad Like Artaud by Sylvère Lotringer Exploring madness, in and around the work of Antonin Artaud.

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Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction by Quentin Meillassoux Imagining a fiction where science is impossible.

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Introduction to Non-Marxism by François Laruelle“There is no final battle with capitalism,no final solution for a history that is always in becoming,just a war of the impossible against the hydra of infinite possibilities.”

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The Arachnean and Other Texts by Fernand Deligny

The network as a mode of being 

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Machinic Eros: Writings on Japan by Félix Guattari

Butoh

Min Tanaka the heir of darkness his Zen fires burning beneath the feet of the Japanese miracle in other districts of sense a body-without-organs beneath industrial identities beyond narrative programs slownesses in the speed of light animal horizontalities extracting his dances from the cosmos diagrams of intensities at the intersection of all the scenes of the possible choreography of desire’s dice throw on a continuous line since birth becoming irreversible of rhythms and refrains of a haiku-event I dance not in the place but I dance the place Min Tanaka the body weather the naked king of our impossible memories of being

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Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

"When everything is human, the human is an entirely different thing...."

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On Doubt by Vilém Flusser

"This structure is given to us through the language within which we think, just as irrevocably as it is given to the spider through the web. To wish to escape from the structure of the reality of subject, object, and predicate, is to wish to fall into a metaphysical suicide, into the weaves of our web. A reality that consists only of subjects (Parmenidean madness), or objects (Platonic madness), or predicates (Heraclitean madness), is an example of this type of suicidal escape. As uncomfortable as it may be, we must accept the triple ontology as a given, imposed by language. The rest is metaphysics; therefore, silence."

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self-aware letterpress bookmarks

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Polymer Plate for upcoming Laruelle cover for Introduction to Non-Marxism

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The History of the Devil by Vilém Flusser

"Praise be to you, human Will, you, creator of art, you, inventor of the world, you, producer and annihilator of God and the Devil"

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The Affirmation of Poetry by Judith Balso I do not share the diagnosis that there is a contemporary deterioration of poetry. The work of the poets continues, it is neither more nor less besieged than that of the true theatre or an inventive politics that is not beholden to a party affiliation. It takes place. Despite those powers striving to deny it, the world is a thought-world. - Judith Balso It is possible that to seem – is to be. - Wallace Stevens the secret of immortality is not higher up than the secret of a bush illuminated by a winter’s night than the white-branches above the snow than the dark shadows upon the snow - Gennadiy Aygi Poetry is the philosophy of the poets. - Xi Chuan Because I know all I can understand is Nature from the outside; I don’t understand it from inside. Because Nature hasn’t any inside; It wouldn’t be Nature otherwise. - Alberto Caeiro I have one purpose left in the world, a golden purpose, how to exhaust the burden of time, its fever. - Osip Mandelstam They march with their flags and slogans, but what separates them from “power?” - Pier Paolo Pasolini A man comes struggling into the world; His birth is in the shadow of death; Pain and suffering Are his first discoveries; And from that point His mother and his father try To console him for having been born. - Giacomo Leopardi 

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Women Who Make a Fuss: The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf by Vinciane Despret & Isabelle Stengers "What is this civilization where appeals are made to culture and intellectual freedom as if they could stop wars, but whose institutions responsible for cultivating and transmitting culture and free thought work as assembly lines producing beings that Woolf describes as both submissive and violent, thirsting, if not for money, then for recognition, ready for all sorts of brutality if they feel that the abstract ideals that give them their identity are threatened? What is this society “that sink[s] the private brother, whom many of us have reason to respect, and inflates in his stead a monstrous male, loud of voice, hard of fist, childishly intent upon scoring the floor of the earth with chalk marks, within whose mystic boundaries human beings are penned, rigidly, separately, artificially[?]” Think we must. We must think."