This text is the introduction to Wars and Capital by Maurizio Lazzarato and Éric Alliez, translated from the French by Ames Hodges, forthcoming from Semiotext(e) in August 2017.
Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (Los Angeles: Pan American Publishing, 2002), 190.
Philip Pullella and Wiktor Szary, “Pope says Europe attacks show ‘world at war,’ religion not to blame,” Reuters, July 27, 2016 →.
We are using “war against women,” “war of the sexes,” and “gender war” interchangeably. Without entering into the debates that overlap feminism, the concepts of “woman,” “sex,” and “gender” (like that of “race”) do not refer to any essentialism but to the political construction of heterosexuality and the patriarchy as social norms of procreation, sexuality, and reproduction of the population, of which the nuclear family is the foundation. It is a continuous war waged against women to submit them to these processes of subjection, domination, and exploitation.
My translation from the French. —Translator’s note
Martin Heidegger, The End of Philosophy, trans. Joan Stambaugh (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 104–05.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 467.
Translated from the French by Ames Hodges. This text is an excerpt of Maurizio Lazzarato and Éric Alliez's forthcoming book Wars and Capital, to be published in English by Semiotext(e). The book's release is scheduled for August 2017.