Schizo-Culture

Poster, 1975.

Semiotext(e) 3(2): "Schizo-Culture", 1978, Log, PDF.

An event organised by Sylvère Lotringer and John Rajchman of Semiotext(e) and held at Columbia University in New York on 13-16 November 1975. The participants included American writers such as William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Richard Foreman, John Giorno, and John Cage along with French theorists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Jean-François Lyotard.

The "Schizo-Culture" issue of the Semiotext(e) journal came three years later.

Publications

• Semiotext(e) 3(2): "Schizo-Culture", ed. Sylvère Lotringer, New York: Semiotext(e), 1978.
• "Schizo Culture: On Prisons and Psychiatry", in Michel Foucault, Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961-1984, New York: Semiotext(e), 1996, pp 168-180. Transcript of the panel discussion.
• Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book, 2 vols., eds. Sylvère Lotringer and David Morris, New York: Semiotext(e), 2014, 240 pp. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Following events

• Mary Patten, Panel, exhibition, Chicago, 2013. [5]
• Semiotext(e): The Return of Schizo-Culture, 40th anniversary conference, New York, 2014.
• Schizo-Culture: Cracks In The Street, exhibition, London, 2014.

Literature

• Joanna Pawlik, "'Various Kinds of Madness:' The French Nietzscheans inside America", Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 3:2 (2006), pp 225-244. [6]
• Jason Demers, "Collecting Intensities: On Semiotext(e) and Schizo-Culture", in Frontières, marges et confins, ed. Corinne Alexandre-Garner, Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2008, pp 415-423.
• Marc Lowenthal, "'Schizo-Culture' Conference Anniversary", MIT Press blog, 14 Nov 2013.
• Craig Hubert, "The Return of 'Schizo-Culture' at MoMA", BlouinArtInfo, 5 Dec 2014.