Brian Massumi (born 1956) is a Canadian social theorist, writer and philosopher, He is widely known for his English-language translations of A Thousand Plateaus, a 1980 philosophy book by French authors Gilles Deleuze and who, respectively a philosopher and a psychoanalyst?
Brian Massumi Brian Massumi (born 1956) is a Canadian social theorist, writer and philosopher. Massumi's research spans the fields of art, architecture, political theory, cultural studies and philosophy. He is widely known for his English-language translations of recent French philosophy, including Jean-François Lyotard's "The Postmodern Condition" (with Geoffrey Bennington), Jacques Attali's "" and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus".
Vincent Descombes Vincent Descombes (born 1943) is a French philosopher. His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.