Translations

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.

Sylvia Sasse explores and analyzes subversive affirmation as a critical practice in different political systems.

The first English translation of Viktor Shklovsky's children book Journey to the Land of Movies, originally published in 1926 in Russian.

What can resistance look like today? In search of an answer, Enis Maci draws a line from Jeanne D'Arc via Sophie Scholl to the Albanian Sworn Virgins.

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

The first French translation of Giorgio Grassi's 1967 text, La construction logique de l'architecture [The Logical Construction of Architecture] takes a strong stand in favor of an architecture that thinks for itself, against the current of experimental excesses that mark both his era and ours.

The first English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's "My Heart Belongs to the Finnish Poor", originally published as "Suomen köyhälistölle kuuluu sydämeni" by the Finnish Trade Union Federation in 1911. The essay is printed in 200 copies as a risographed poster.

In The Infinite Now, Taras Gembik crafts an intimate meditation on solitude, faith, and the search for meaning, ten years in the making. Moving between Ukraine and Poland, these twenty-five poems trace a decade-long journey of self-discovery.

A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.

An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.

An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.

Superior and Inferior presents a facsimile reprint of Italian abstract artist and feminist Carla Accardi's provocatory publication Superiore e Inferiore and the first ever English translation of the full text.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

All that grows: nature and writing chronicles the author's upbringing in Argentina, her exile to Spain, and her resulting reconciliation of place, memory, loss, and growth.

Pati Hill's cult novel, available in French for the first time since 1976 (also available in English edition).

The first complete translation of Egon Erwin Kisch's Karl Marx in Karlsbad. Originally written in 1946, this book recounts Marx's visits to the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in Czechia) in 1874, 1875 and 1876.

Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).

Written in the stirring style of an intense inner monologue, Isabelle Graw captures the various manifestations and effects of fear in relation to money or the lack of it.

Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in English of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.

Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.

A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

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.

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 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.

Ross Bolleter's latest collection of poems draws on his experience as a musician/composer especially in the field of ruined piano, and includes tributes to Thelonious Monk and other luminaries who have inspired him over a lifetime of musical and poetic creation. This new book explores the themes of childhood, eros, love, death—and football.

The seventh volume of the series dedicated to the life and work of Ilya Zdanevich - Iliazd presents the first English translation of the "Albanian" issue of Bloodless Murder magazine, published in Petrograd in 1916. 

This first collection of texts in French by Félix Candela (1910-1997), a major figure in twentieth-century modern architecture, brings together writings and interviews published in specialized journals, as well as lectures and speeches delivered on various occasions by the Mexican architect and engineer of Spanish origin between 1953 and 1994

Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.

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.

Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.

An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.

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.

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

The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy.

Collection of portraits published between 1938 and 1955 in the New Yorker by one of the pioneer of New Journalism: a literary painting of a New York that no longer exists.

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

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.

Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.