Anthropology / ethnology / social studies

 
 
Graziano Lingua - Pour une anthropologie des écrans - Montrer et cacher, exposer et protéger
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
forthcoming
A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.
Bernhard Siegert - Techniques culturelles - Grilles, filtres, portes et autres articulations du réel
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
forthcoming
Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.
Siegfried Kracauer - Culte de la distraction - Miniatures urbaines et critiques de films (1925-1933)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Malaise dans la décolonisation, terres éparses et îles noires
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
forthcoming
An essay that intellectually deepens the historically traced furrows of colonial aberrations, crossing political science, philosophy, anthropology and psychoanalysis.
Griselda Pollock - Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Studio - Reflections Across Four Decades
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
In two lectures four decades apart, féminist art historian and curator Griselda Pollock denounces the gender politics of art education and resituates the major geopolitical and ideological shifts in the world since 1968.
Griselda Pollock - Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques - 40 ans d\'expérience
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
forthcoming
In two lectures four decades apart, féminist art historian and curator Griselda Pollock denounces the gender politics of art education and resituates the major geopolitical and ideological shifts in the world since 1968.
Tim Ingold - Architecture educates! - Au contact de l\'art
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
forthcoming
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.
Décor - Contrefeu
2025
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
forthcoming
The fourth issue of the annual review of the École des Arts Décoratifs takes as its starting point the observation of an incandescent and damaged world, unequal and inhospitable, which can only arouse concern and anger in new generations.
Marion Laval-Jeantet - Microbiota - Créer et soigner
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
forthcoming
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.
Fiamma Montezemolo - Hidden in Plain Sight
2024
English edition
Nero
A publication tracing the itinerary of Fiamma Montezemolo's anthropological and artistic research, across Italy, Mexico, and the United States.
EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking) - Sonder les droits de la Terre
2024
French edition
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
This collective publication explores the question of Earth rights through the interdisciplinary prism of socio-environmental humanities in relation to contemporary art.
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
Richard Sennett - Democracy and Urban Form
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? In 1981, Richard Sennett delivered six lectures about this relationship, and issued a call to action that remains relevant today.
Élisée Reclus - Abécédaire Reclus - Les 101 mots d\'Élisée
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.
Yaël Kreplak - Les réserves des musées - Écologies des collections
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Using an interdisciplinary approach inspired by science and technology studies, and combining museological and sociological perspectives, this groundbreaking study of museum storerooms sheds new light on the world of art and cultural heritage conservation.
Construire un Matrimoine de la BD - Créations, mobilisations et transmissions des femmes dans le neuvième art, en Europe et en Amérique
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The first scientific work to trace the history of female comic strip creators, for the (re)valorization of women's heritage.
Textile Textures - Multithreaded Narratives
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The multiple meanings and uses of textiles in art, culture and society.
Volume ! - La fin des genres musicaux ? Catégoriser les musiques populaires
2024
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
A historicist approach of music genres.
Michel Guérin - Aménager l\'espace, orner les lieux
2024
French edition
Athom
Three texts by Michel Guérin on the notions of ornament and decoration, at the crossroads of theological, anthropological, aesthetic and philosophical considerations.
Objets à l\'état vif - Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.
Nina Dragičević - Auditory Poverty and its Discontents - An Essay
2024
English edition
Errant Bodies
Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms.
Jamie Allen - Infrastructures critiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How do we perceive and think about the infrastructures that condition the ways in which we perceive, think and experience our world? Four essays by Jamie Allen, whose experiments as artist and researcher cross media, disciplines and borders, that invite us to make visible the backstage work of the digitized world, and to think (post)critically about the very notion of critique.
Chantal Guillaume - Fourier ou l\'utopie en réel
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Charles Fourier or utopia as reality.
Ingo Niermann - The Monadic Age - Notes on the Coming Social Order
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.
Ana Vujanović - Toward a Transindividual Self
2024
English edition
Archive Books
Toward a Transindividual Self examines the process of performing the self, distinctive for the formation of the self in Western neoliberal societies in the 21st century. It approaches the self from a transdisciplinary angle where political and cultural anthropology, performance studies, and dramaturgy intersect.
Landscape with(out) Locus
2023
English edition
Nero
(last copies available!)
A collective reflection on the landscape as an ever-changing social, economic, and ecological construct, addressing questions of power, identity, and natural resources (contributions by T. J. Demos, Tiago Torres-Campos, Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Hagit Keysar and Ariel Caine, Teresa Mendes Flores, Chris Malcolm, Irmgard Emmelhainz...)
Volume ! - La valeur de la musique
2023
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Focus on the question of the economic and cultural value of music, which has re-emerged with the advent of streaming platforms.
 SG<!----> - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.
Robert Linhart - The Sugar and the Hunger
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first English language translation of Robert Linhart's The Sugar and the Hunger, originally published in 1980. Includes afterword by Luiz Renato Martins, and other materials.
Imaginaires technologiques
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Some insights into the imaginaries that inhabit techno-scientific realities, transforming our relationship with the world, closing or opening up the future.
Décor - Trans
2023
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).
Mieke Bal - Concepts itinérants - Comment se déplacer dans les sciences humaines
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course "beyond" cultural studies.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Laurent Buffet - Captation et subversion - L\'art à l\'épreuve du capitalisme tardif
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Suspected of having been completely assimilated by the commercial industries, it is not so much against these that art must be defended as against a simplistic narrative imposed by a certain sociology of art. When one is finally interested in the artistic practices themselves, it becomes obvious that the art continues to resist: by its politics of the forms.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Sousveillance - L\'œil du contre-pouvoir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
On the border between arts and surveillance studies, this book analyzes the technopolitical role of new "machines vision" and considers sousveillance as a democratic counter-power.
Sébastien Miravete - Bergson structuraliste - L\'aube d\'une autre anthropologie structurale et cognitive
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
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.
Steven Feld - La recherche comme composition
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two essays by Steven Feld, a leading figure in anthropology and sound studies, that challenge established acoustic perspectives and open up the exciting field of research-composition.
Claudia Mareis - Théories du design - Une introduction
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
By introducing the main design theories of the twentieth century, Claudia Mareis outlines approaches and models that postulate an expanded notion of design, in connection with the human and technical sciences, as well as with the challenges of a changing society.
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).
Ixiptla - Amarantus
2023
English edition
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This 5th issue of the anthropology journal created by Mariana Castillo Deball explains and develops the issues at stake in the artist's recent research.
The Rainbow Book
2023
English edition
Nero
currently out of stock
The reprint of a cult book of post-1968 psychedelic culture:, an encyclopedia of the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
La création dans les musiques traditionnelles en France - L\'écho d\'un monde musical en effervescence
2023
French edition
Mélanie Seteun - Misceallenous
currently out of stock
A new milestone in the reflection on the challenges of creation in traditional music, and its recent aesthetic renewal.
Louis Ucciani - Avant-garde et contre culture
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.
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