http://www.egs.edu Brian Holmes talking about Félix Guattari, integrated world capitalism, deterritorialised imperialisms, economic man, Harun Farocki's The Creators of Shopping Worlds, Jean Baudrillard, structuralism and cybernetics, psychology and systemic therapy, family homeostasis, Mony Elkaim's therapeutic system, Guattari's Chaosmosis (1992), activism, Isabelle Stengers and Ilya Prigogine, chaos theory and the potentials for new ways of living. Public open lecture for the students and staff of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2011 Brian Holmes.

Brian Holmes, Ph.D., is a Paris-based art critic, activist and translator interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, and a member of the graphic arts group 'Ne pas plier' from 1999 to 2001; he has recently worked with the French conceptual art group 'Bureau d'Études'.

Brian Holmes is a frequent contributor to the international listserve Nettime, a member of the editorial committee of the journal Multitudes (Paris), Springerin (Vienna) and Brumaria (Barcelona). He is also a regular contributor to the magazine Parachute (Montreal), and a founder, with 'Bureau d'Études, of the new journal Autonomie Artistique (Paris). He is the author of a collection of essays, Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art and Politics in a Networked Era (Zagreb: Arkzin, 2003).