Politics

A science-fiction story telling the rise and fall of a fantasized totalitarian global state.

When French politics and the history of rock'n roll collide: a both irreverent and joyful text by Cyrille Martinez.

The body of the State (artist's book).

A sociological and musical study which shows how French female rapper Diam's contributed to introduce a series of social issues within the public debate.

Charles Fourier's theories and archives, his disciples and the concrete becomings of his utopian system, his influences in history, in modern and contemporary art... with about 20 essays and 300 illustrations.

New Marxist perspectives.

An essay on Charles Fourier's legacy through his disciples and "utopian" activists in late XIXth century.

Photographic essay.

Pistoletto's theater and performances.

Catalogue gathering the works of Ivan Messac: bas-relief sculptures; printed textiles, and series of paintings dedicated to Adam and Eve or Maïakovski. A collection of works inspired by Pop iconography, in which we also meet Pessoa, Picabia, Hendrix, Jimmy Page…

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

Two volumes artist's book.

The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".

For the 20 years of Cahiers Charles Fourier: new issues, vast territories, meeting with readers of Fourier (architects, mediums, and anarchists); critical edition of Roland Barthes' researches on Fourier, actuality of Fourierism.

A bibliography of the Prime ministers and Presidents of the French Fifth Republic.

A gamebook in which the reader evolves in a burroughsian world threatened by a crime and terrorist corporation.

A lexicon to look back at the 2005 French riots.

While looking for French criminal Jacques Mesrine's grave, Charles Pennequin engages in a poetic and politic reflection against French society.

“East Coast Europe,” which took place during Spring 2008, is a project about the perceptions of contemporary European identity and its relation to spatial practices and international politics.

With its 100 questions and answers from major practitioners of the art world and beyond, this book helps to examine the various parameters for a new institutional model (contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Esche, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tom Holert, Sarah Morris, Heike Munder, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Beatrix Ruf...).

Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.

Under Pressure (edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw) gathers together the contributions to a series of conferences held at the Institut für Kunstkritik from 2006-07.

Limited edition of the artist's book by William Kentridge (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages), with an original lithograph.

Special issue devoted to Victor Considerant (1808-2008).

Based on the curation of a space at the 2007 Lyon Biennial, architect and writer Markus Miessen has drawn together a group of people to lead conversations on the theme of Europe today.

A poetic document gathering fragments of texts found on the websites of political groups and international news agencies.

A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.

Two discussions about Karl Marx by the famous slovenian philosopher, illustrated by the German artist.

A new essay on Charles Fourier's social utopia.

The Fourierist Studies Association Review.

Produced as part of a Continuous Project residence, the collective's final publication brings together contributions from artists, philosophers and art critics around the relationship between art and politics.

The Fourierist Studies Association Review.

The Populism Reader accompanies Populism, an exhibition project in four European cities exploring the relationships between contemporary art and current populist cultural and political trends.

New edition of the Letterist manifesto, with an original artwork of inter-participation, consisting of a photograph torn by the artist and inserted in an envelope.

An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.

A 19th century political activism classic.

A collection of over 120 propaganda leaflets that have been dropped by the US Army on Afghanistan and Iraq.

Conceived as a textbook with images rather than an exhibition catalogue, the book reflects on the diversity of fundamentalisms, a phenomenon that is not confined to particular cultures or modes of thought; its intention is to explore the concept in its many forms and multiple origins.

This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.

The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.

Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..

In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.

A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.

A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.

Hiérarchie du cocuage proposes a system of classification, worthy of Linné for botany, in which he organizes the indomitable differences of beings and their diverse characters.

The anti-romanesque, a-metaphysical and theoretical Einstein's dadaist autobiography.

Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).

Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).