Anthropology / ethnology / social studies

The new impact of corporations on both the state and the market as the new paradigm of neoliberalism.

An encounter between ethnology and literature.

Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Images potentielles (Potential Images), the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response.

This publication describes the making of a multiple-screen video installation made by Mario Pfeifer while living on Navarino Island, Chile. This anthropological film looks at the life of the descendants of the area's indigenous Yaghan people, and portrays a nation and community that is violently undergoing cultural and religious, social, political and economic transformation.

Proposals for an ecology of diagnosis.

This new monograph gathers 42 images documenting 3 years of photographs taken between 2011 and 2014 during the Purim holiday in the neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, London.

Musician Kamran Sadeghi took field recordings from an anthropological research on Tierra del Fuego as a starting point to compose his digital musical score for a video installation by Mario Pfeifer.

Comprehensive monograph.

A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.

The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.

“Ce qui ne sert pas s'oublie” (“What cannot be used is forgotten”) accompanies and extends the reach of the exhibition of the same title. Both deal with the mutating statuses of objects in relation to possible historical narratives, especially those related to colonial past and present and the layers of cultural, spiritual, and identity production that stem from them.

Since his historical research on the line, anthropologist Tim Ingold has been working closely with laboratoire des intuitions on diagrams. This unpublished text follows a working session at the Kandinsky Library at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

This cookbook is the outcome of a collective project for which random people opened the door of their kitchen to share their favorite recipe and tell their life experience. A celebration of life and cooking in 52 recipes and 31 portraits illustrated with colir photographs.

The photography book Kracauer. Photographic Archive is a collection of previously unpublished photographic material from the estate of the sociologist, philosopher, journalist and film and photograph theorist Siegfried Kracauer.

An epistemology of historical socialism (politics, natural sciences, humanities and religion in the early XIXth century).

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. This volume brings together for the first time all of Kracauer's essays on photography that he wrote between 1927 and 1933. It includes a foreword by Philippe Despoix, and a curriculum vitae illustrated with photographs from the Kracauer estate.

Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.

First issue of the biannual journal about trajectories of anthropology and archeology, initiated by Berlin-based Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball.

Works, authors and rights: music and dance in globalization.

Education and totalitarianism, in Central and Eastern Europe: a multidisciplinary reflection on totalitarianism as a political and anthropological project which, paradoxically, puts the question of education at the center of its concerns.

A study of social utopias (of European origin, mainly French) in Latin America in the 19th century: a contribution to the defense of utopia as a driving force of human progress, against all forms of utilitarianism and pragmatism.

First photography book by Emmanuelle Bayart, dedicated to memorial issues in the town of Sarcelles, in a “ville nouvelle” sociocultural context.

This publication investigates the historical accumulation and commodification of artefacts and the representation of the human body as seen on ethnographic photographs. New material developed out of artistic research in the Weltkulturen Labor is presented together with unpublished scientific photography. Extended conversations between internationally renowned anthropologists, art historians, curators and artists offer new connections between past and present. Foreign Exchange responds to current interest in the remediation of ethnographic collections, colonial history, historical archives, and interdisciplinary curatorial practice.

Social and political dimension of the emergence of a culture of the image carried by the amateur practice of photography in Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century.

A collective publication that brings together artists and researchers on the issue of the body.

An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.

A metis art history in New Spain: an analysis of the complex dynamics of crossbreeding between some singular artistic practices invented in New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the European Renaissance, in the political context of the Iberian expansion in the Americas.

“Animal Spirits: Fables in the Parlance of Our Times” is an artist's book by Michael Stevenson and Jan Verwoert which expands upon the themes of this earlier document and re-examines them more specifically in the light of our current times.

This essay offers a careful analysis of the mass media system and the simplifying selections it operates within the complexity and contingency of the world.

Starting from the deep malaise and the violent crisis of confidence in state institutions in modern democracies, this essay analyzes the growing influence and power of the multinational corporations in modern democracies.

A mapping of the young Lebanese art scene (DVD included).

A chamber music project on LP by the Italian composer, sound artist and performer, inspired by an African divination ritual.

A collection of texts investigating the field of political thought by French anthropologist and sociologist Sylvain Lazarus.

The first collection of texts by Steve Rushton, exploring the interrelations between art, anthropology, social sciences, psychology, media, politics, and economy.

A collective essay as much as an exhibition catalogue, dedicated to the imaginary of the savage, from the 15th century to the contemporary culture, based on Rousseau's conception of state of nature.

Suspended spaces #2 is a trip in the libanese territories. It develops artistical proposals and philosophical approaches of modernism in a middle eastern country.

The relationship between language and thought in pedagogy and humanities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

A film by Robert Milin to question the conditions and implications of “art in the suburbs.” (with Sylvie Blocher, Thomas Hirschhorn, Didier Marcel, Guy Tortosa...).

A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.

Thirteen texts (including an unpublished essay by Georges Didi-Huberman) to think art and history together, from the tools developed by the theorist of the future of images.

The relations between youth culture, digital practices, and media industries with the example of electro dances and Tecktonik phenomenon.

A ghost town in Cyprus as a metaphor for an aesthetic and political reconstruction in the margins of Europe: an artistic approach to contemporary issues related to a real situation, with about 30 international artists and contributions by writers from different fields (philosophy, anthropology, history, politics, and sociology).

The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.

First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.

An investigation of the latent yet easily overlooked issue of social class in contemporary art.

The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.

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.

A visual anthropology study on the Wagenburgs and the Berliner punk community.