# Philosophy [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy) ( 20th century–present ) ## Description Continental philosophy, poststructuralism, and critical theory — simulation and hyperreality, schizoanalysis and assemblage theory, deconstruction, biopolitics, and the philosophy of narrative and vulnerability, in the work of theorists including [[Gilles Deleuze]], [[Judith Butler]], [[Donna Haraway]], and [[Fred Moten]]. ## Key Tags #philosophy #poststructuralism #critical-theory ## Essential Works - Baudrillard, Jean. "Simulacra and Simulations." In *Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings*, 1998. - Foundational theory of the simulacrum and hyperreality - Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. *A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia*. Trans. Brian Massumi. University of Minnesota Press, 1987. - [[A Thousand Plateaus]] — core text for rhizome, assemblage, and becoming - Foucault, Michel. *Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France 1974–1975*. Verso, 2003. - Genealogy of the abnormal/monstrous individual in disciplinary power - Guattari, Félix. *Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm*. Indiana University Press, 1995. - Haraway, Donna J., and Cary Wolfe. *Manifestly Haraway*. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. - Includes "A Cyborg Manifesto" ## Details ### Key Theorists - [[Gilles Deleuze]] - with Guattari, develops schizoanalysis, the rhizome, and (via the *Cinema* books) the movement-image/time-image taxonomy - [[Judith Butler]] - theorizes vulnerability, resistance, and precarity, extending performativity into political/ethical registers - [[Donna Haraway]] - cyborg theory, situated knowledges, and companion-species thinking bridging feminist theory and posthumanism - [[Fred Moten]] - Black radical aesthetics and the "jurisgenerative" grammar of fugitive sociality ### Exemplary Practitioners %% none yet %% ### Related Concepts - [[Affirmative Posthumanism]] - Haraway's cyborg and Hofstadter's "strange loop" both inform posthumanist thought - [[Sociology and Politics]] - shares Foucault, Moten, and decolonial theory as common ground - [[Third Cinema and Socio-political Cinema]] - Koutsourakis's Anthropocene/Third Cinema scholarship bridges both pages ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Associated Movements or Institutions %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Baudrillard, Jean. "Jean Baudrillard. Simulacra and Simulations." *Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings*, 1998. Baudrillard, Jean. *The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena*. Verso, 1993. Borges, Jorge Luis. *Collected Fictions*. Trans. Andrew Hurley. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Penguin Books, 1999. Borges, Jorge Luis. "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote." *Collected Fictions*, 1964, 88–95. Deleuze, Gilles. *A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia*. With Félix Guattari and Brian Massumi. University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Derrida, Jacques. Trans. Richard Rand and Amy Wygant. *If We Could Say We (but Have I Not Already Said It...)*. n.d. "Foucault, Michel - A Preface to Transgression - 1963 - 1977." n.d. Foucault, Michel, Valerio Marchetti, Graham Burchell, and Michel Foucault. *Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France 1974 - 1975*. Lectures at the Collège de France. Verso, 2003. Guattari, Félix. *Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm*. Indiana University Press, 1995. Haraway, Donna. *A Cyborg Manifesto*. n.d. Haraway, Donna J., and Cary Wolfe. *Manifestly Haraway*. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. [https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816650477.001.0001](https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816650477.001.0001). Hofstadter, Douglas R. *I Am a Strange Loop*. Basic Books, 2007. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Bruner, Jerome. *The Narrative Construction of Reality*. n.d. Butler, Judith. "Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance." *Vulnerability in Resistance*, Duke UP, 2016, 12–27. Calle, Sophie. *Suite Venitienne: Postface Jean Baudrillard "Please Follow Me."* May 11, 2025. [https://jstor.org/stable/community.13753208](https://jstor.org/stable/community.13753208). França, Pedro. *Cartography of Exhaustion: Nihilism inside Out*. n.d. "Fugitivity - ASAP14 Conference Program, 2023." n.d. Harney, Stefano, Fred Moten, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Zun Lee. *All Incomplete*. Minor Compositions, 2021. *"Khadak – The Color of Water": Magic and Realism*. By Mariola Wiktor. Accessed October 9, 2025. [https://fipresci.org/report/khadak-the-color-of-water-magic-and-realism-by-mariola-wiktor/](https://fipresci.org/report/khadak-the-color-of-water-magic-and-realism-by-mariola-wiktor/). Koutsourakis, Angelos. "Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema's Anticolonial Politics." *Film-Philosophy* 29, no. 2 (2025): 401–24. [https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2025.0311](https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2025.0311). Koutsourakis, Angelos. "Visualizing the Anthropocene Dialectically: Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens' Eco-Crisis Trilogy." *Film-Philosophy* (Edinburgh) 21, no. 3 (2017): 299–325. [https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2017.0053](https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2017.0053). Land, Nick. *The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (an Essay in Atheistic Religion)*. Routledge, 1992. "Lorde, Audre - The Uses of the Erotic - 1978." n.d. Moten, Fred. *Jurisgenerative Grammar (for Alto)*. Ed. George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press, 2014. [https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195370935.013.017](https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195370935.013.017). Pappin, Gladden. "Baudrillard's Revenge." *American Affairs Journal*, May 20, 2018. [https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/baudrillards-revenge/](https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/baudrillards-revenge/). Virilio, Paul. "The Third Interval." In *Open Sky*. Radical Thinkers 35. Verso, 1997. Wilber, Ken. *The Atman Project*. n.d. Yazdiha, Haj. *Conceptualizing Hybridity: Deconstructing Boundaries through the Hybrid*. 2010. "Zizek/Reflections on WTC." Accessed October 9, 2025. [https://www.lacan.com/reflections.htm](https://www.lacan.com/reflections.htm).