Description Semiotext(e). New York, 1985. Foreign Agents series. ISBN 0-936756-07-1. Soft cover, 169 pages followed by several blank pages and ads. Wraps show edge and cover wear, corner creases and reading creases along front spine edge, some scrapes; binding sound. Interior clean and unmarked, pages white. “’The old philosopher’s stone could convert base metals into gold. Now humans, real estate, social relations are converted into electronic signs carried in an electronic plasma. The dream of magical control has never been exorcised. Perhaps, after all, modern capitalism is a great factory for the production of angels.”’ (from rear wrap)