Anthropology / ethnology / social studies

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.

An update on the history and current state of research into homelessness, in its various links with public action and in a context of fragile urbanity.

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Thirteen texts (including an unpublished essay by Georges Didi-Huberman) to think art and history together, from the tools developed by the theorist of the future of images.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

A conference on the invention of perspective, Arab science and the art of the Renaissance.

Reference monograph.

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

First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.

13 British and French researchers in popular music studies highlight the differences and similarities between two contexts and two research traditions to better understand the amplified music on both sides of the Channel.

An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.

Research in Design and Art.

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

A part of the Dutch Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

Audio project documenting the artist's travels in West Africa, pursuing cultural differences, the place of music, and the languages used to get at sound. Includes texts and audio CD.

An understanding of rock culture through its networks of actors, tastes, objects, systems, activities and practices.

A sociological analysis of the production mechanisms of amplified music in France in parallel with the development of French cultural industries.

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.

82 photos taken in bathrooms (Bettina Rheims, Araki, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Bertrand Desprez, Giselle Freund, Pierre & Gilles...), with an essay by Jean-Claude Kaufmann, half-way between voyeurism and sociological commentary

The texts in Group.sex discuss political groups and languages, abstract radicalism and art, feminism and bohemianism, social hierarchies, and telematic friendship.

A sociological analysis of the history of alternative art in Quebec.

Artist's writings.

A conversation between the sociologist and the artist: a sociology of art at the service of a political project.

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

The multiple meanings and uses of textiles in art, culture and society.

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...)

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.

A field recording project initiated by Japanese sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga, documenting traditional gong music by different Southeast Asian ethnic groups.

A field recording project initiated by Japanese sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga, documenting traditional gong music by different Southeast Asian ethnic groups (2 CDs with a 52 page booklet).

The first published fiction text by art critic and author Camille Azaïs, which questions the return to the home of American women since the 2010s.

Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance.