French Theory

Two both aesthetic and political engaged considerations on the relationship between the West and the Middle East (or more generally between the West and its others), from the figures of exile and the two cultures: three unpublished interviews of Edward W. Said / a deconstruction of a common European view on the Arab world by Seloua Luste Boulbina.

Derrida's postcards to Blanchot, essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, Didier Cahen, Kevin Hart, Michel Deguy, lectures at the Collège International de Philosophie (Gisèle Berkman, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland), studies (Jérémie Majorel, Daniel Dobbels, Yuji Nishiyama), reading notes...

An anthology of reference texts published in the German magazine "Texte Zur Kunst" between 1990 and 1998.

A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

A conversation between the architect and the philosopher.

A philosophical essay reflecting on ethics and poetics through the thought of Gilles Deleuze.

An essay on Gary Hill's video work, taking Maurice Blanchot's writing as a starting point, between literature, philosophy, aesthics and psychoanalysis.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

This essay considers Deleuze's film theory on both an epistemological and historical angle and brings forward recent studies on cinema's aesthetics and philosophy.

A conversation between the sociologist and the artist: a sociology of art at the service of a political project.

A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.

A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.

The first English translation of Jacques Rancière's early philosophical text "The Dialectic of Reason and Private Interest", originally published in 1963. Written under the influence of Louis Althusser, the text is discussing the forms of law in Karl Marx's writings on the "debates on the law on thefts of wood".

A previously unpublished text by Gilles Deleuze on Francis Bacon, with a set of contemporary readings of his Deleuze's writings on art, by philosophers and theoreticians of the various disciplines addressed (literature, cinema, music, art history...).

The previously unpublished transcript of a lecture by Jacques Derrida around the figure of the blind and blindness in art.