As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.

An ethnographic approach to the zoo, revealing the tensions and contradictions of a cultural institution that inherited nature from the colonial exhibitions and has now entered the paradigm of biodiversity conservation.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.

Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.

An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.

An conceptual attempt to think differently about freedom in its acts.

A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.

What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.

The first comprehensive book on the art of Frank Malina (1912-1981), the American rocket scientist turned Paris-based artist, one of the fathers of light art.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

A book of fiction that brings together two environmentalist literary “fantasies” by Matali Crasset, with line drawings.

A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.

A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.

A major milestone in the history of design, this pioneering work by Tomás Maldonado, published in 1970, lays the foundations for a critical and committed reflection, open to an ecological perspective, against the drifts of utopian regressions or exacerbated productivism.

On the relationship between architecture and design.

The first major catalogue on one of the most important Lettrist artists.

An archeological inventory of the bizarre beauty of art brut, popular gardens and improbable architecture, palaces and tree castles, chapels and converted caves, concrete and matchstick models, rustic furniture and animal sculptures, caravans and flying bicycles, calvaries... and the last homes of creators of all kinds (mental patients, abbots, bistro owners or self-proclaimed artists), most of which now only exist on postcards from the period, around 1900.

Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.

A multidisciplinary analysis, based on a historical perspective of theater pedagogies and an eminently contemporary approach to actor training.

Lionel Marchetti offers a highly personal, artist-to-artist reading of one of Pierre Henry's landmark works, through which he attempts to grasp all the poetic issues at stake in the art of musique concrète, and to identify the specificities of the genre.

Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.

Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.

Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.

An essay that intellectually deepens the historically traced furrows of colonial aberrations, crossing political science, philosophy, anthropology and psychoanalysis.

At the crossroads of design, art, architecture and popular culture, Alexandra Midal investigates the techniques developed by artists, designers and revolutionaries to conceal information and messages, through the lens of the coded language of flowers.

Translated into French for the first time, Vivian Sobchack's Le corps du film – Une phénoménologie de l'expérience filmique offers a new perspective to the phenomenological tradition through an interrogation of our cinematographic experience and, more generally, of our relationship to screens.

Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.

The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.

Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

One minute of dance a day for a decade: a look back at choreographer Nadia Vadori-Gauthier's daily act of poetic resistance, on the edge of situated dance, philosophy and performance.

A selection of Eisenstein's writings (new expanded edition).

An experience of introspection, an epistemological reflection and an act of resistance in the face of depersonalization, around the question of the name.

A panorama of the “ethnographic” collages created by Spanish feminist artist Eulàlia Grau in the early 1970s, providing a visual dissection that criticizes capitalist lifestyles and all forms of oppression.

A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.

A philosopher's journey into the heart of New York artistic life.

First monograph, documenting the filmmaker's work as a whole, at the intersection of independent cinema, contemporary art, photography and installation.

This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).

An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.

Tribute to philosopher René Schérer (1922-2023), a great Charles Fourier specialist.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.