Founded thirty-five years ago, Semiotext(e) has proven again and again to be the most influential of American independent presses. It is widely credited for having introduced French Theory to America through its magazine issues and Foreign Agents series, and turned American fiction into a subjective bullfight with its Native Agents series. It has recently added a more politically and culturally orientated pamphlet series: Interventions, and a related magazine, Animal Shelter (edited by Hedi El Kholti).
The MIT Press has since 2000 been the distributor of new titles published by Semiotext(e), whose backlist includes works of cutting-edge cultural theory by French critics Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, MICHEL FOUCAULT, Felix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Paul Virilio, Pierre Clastres, Jean-François Lytoard, and others, published as part of the Foreign Agents Series (acquired by Sylvère Lotringer). The backlist also includes avant-garde fiction and non-fiction by American writers Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, David Rattray, Ann Rower, Michelle Tea, Chris Kraus, Eileen Myles, Eldon Garnet, Shulamith Firestone, and others. These titles are part of Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series (acquired by Chris Kraus).
"Semiotext(e) has for a generation been the leading edge of the most incendiary and exciting intellectual revolution in the West."—Rick Moody
"Semiotext(e) invented a new plateau of thought which is dizzyingly complex and deeply subjective... at once responsible to the past and bravely forward looking."—Avital Ronell
