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Brian Massumi is an academic, writer and social critic. He teaches in the Communication Department of the Université de Montréal. Massumi focuses on the philosophies of communication, electronic art, computer-aided design, architecture and the virtual.

Massumi is also known for English-language translations of recent French philosophy, including Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition (with Geoffrey Bennington), Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali and Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus.

Brian Massumi is involved in the Art&D Laboratory of the Society for Arts and Technology. With colleague Thierry Bardini, he directs the Radical Empiricism laboratory at the Communication Department of the Université de Montréal. He also collaborates with Erin Manning, from Concordia University's Sense Lab.

Works as author: Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, 2002)
A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press, 1992)
First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (with Kenneth Dean; Autonomedia, 1993)

Works as editor:

A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2002)
The Politics of Everyday Fear (University of Minnesota Press, 1993).