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This book places itself at an epochal rift that is marked by a large-scale change within the concept of subjectivity, succinctly put: its implosion, revision and re-invention. It is a crisis of subjectivity that is also a crisis of sovereignty, collectivity, identity, nationality. Yet alongside the total dissolution of any authoritative legitimation of identity, knowledge and power given by philosophy, a vacuum emerges where new conceptions of subjectivity can evolve. The contributors try to engage a type of subjectivity that is as flat or horizontal and inclusive as possible: based on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the Girl as heuristic tool, as a "larval subject," they don't miss to put anew the question of the Social and its foundation.<br> A necessary supplement to the conception of the "thing" or "object" privileged by Speculative Realism and other New Materialism theories.<br> Contributions by renowned authors as Levi Bryant, Rosi Braidotti, Eric Alliez, Peter Sloterdijk, Patricia McCormack, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela Melitopoulos and others.