Description:
Throughout the history of human societies, the question of 'we' has always entailed the question of 'us and them'. Tristan Garcia's looks at the history of how people have imagined themselves in their societies. All in all, this work is a rigorous engagement with the history of humanity's attempts at being collectively.
Brief description: Abigail RayAlexander is Assistant Professor of French at Kennesaw State University
Review Quotes: As an editor, I often issue warnings to writers about the presumptive we. When you say 'we', you make assumptions about who is included and excluded. We usually just avoid 'we' instead. In this book, Tristan Garcia builds a political philosophy around doing the opposite - keeping 'we', but exploding it into a thousand possible embraces.--Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology