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A phenomenology of voice and hearing.

An analysis of the technocritical acts and strategies by artists, hackers and activists in the (post-)digital age.

Why does a painter like Delacroix paint so many religious subjects?

An investigation into artistic reproduction and the role of the engravers in the shadows who made prints signed by others, questioning the relationships of domination and subordination in creation.

Architectural shape is the interface where form and meaning meet and communicate. In this perspective the research addresses the decoding of the shape of buildings, cities and landscapes.

An historical perspective of the representation of non-western art in western museums and imagination / an essay on the relations between African arts and avant-garde.

Émilie Notéris focuses her analysis on artworks created by women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in a book that is at once literary, aesthetic and political.

A study on the role of research and knowledge production in today's contemporary art, and the growing relevance of art as conduit of knowledge.

It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection.

The collection of essays on art by the philosopher and critic Boris Buden constitutes a history of post-communism studied through that of works of art.

Divagations about René Ghil, Jean-François Bory, Lucien Suel: three authors who invented and practised the most diverse forms of “experimental poetry” and who have profoundly transformed the very idea of “poetry”.

The colony as a major philosophical concept in contemporary political thought—a basis for reflection on decolonization (expanded reprint of the book published in 2008).

An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).

A picaresque tale of Clara Schulmann's often collective experiences.

An essay on dancing corporality as a complex system of interacting elements.

In this course, Reiner Schürmann develops the idea of a distinctive Medieval Renaissance, connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. His analysis is drawn from readings of St. Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham and Meister Eckhart's works.

This volume of Reiner Schürmann's lectures unpacks Nietzsche's ambivalence towards Kant, in particular positioning Nietzsche's claim to have brought an end to German idealism against the backdrop of the Kantian transcendental-critical tradition.

The pleonectic comes from a neologism that means: have-more. The challenge of this major book by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is to identify the ontological principle from which to question the afflictions in which our world is struggling.

An essay on art exhibition.

A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.

An in-depth study of the diorama in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, a place for the creation and mediation of knowledge but also for the political construction of history, between art, anthropology and natural sciences.

By renewing the dialogue with anthropology, this book invites the history of science to be refounded on other, more humanistic bases.

An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.

The stakes of Francis Picabia's creative process, between exaltation and rejection of the self, at the heart of the constitution of modernity.

A manifesto of the architecture of the air.

An essay by the French composer that provides some perspective on his musical concepts and formulates his vision of music and society.

Ben Alper and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa present visual unknowns and forgotten gestures from the defunct archives of American mid-century news photography.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.

The development of spatial and tridimensional drawing in American art, both in theory and in practice, from the 1960s through the 1970s.

The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.

Erin Manning expands her research on movement politics to the concept of minor gesture.

How to explain the intersection, during the twentieth century, of the ideology and theories on violence and creativity?

A transdisciplinary study that sheds new light on the birth of modern architecture in France through its relations with the printed text, vector of the diffusion of the architectural ideal at the scale of the nation, and the emergence of the public sphere between the end of the 17th century and the French Revolution.

Hans Hartung and the cinema.

An analysis of the relationship between art and literature over the last six decades.

A pioneering approach to the history of emotions.

Conceived around an anthropology of the object, this book proposes to follow the course of royal objects of Abomey, former capital of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin).

This collection assembles key essays of Reiner Schürmann centering on the concepts of anarchy and the singularization to come. Setting out from the question of the status of practical philosophy at the end of metaphysics, these texts track the crucial role of Schürmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991.

It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection.

The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.

This book traces the career of Kara Walker (born in 1969), the most internationally recognized African-American artist since Jean-Michel Basquiat, and explores the history of the reception of a work that faces the limits of representation, challenging the question of the figuration of the black body.

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?

The reconciliation of art and life, at the heart of the reflection and practice of many modern and contemporary movements.

Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, and the primitivist paradigm.

A critical look at the place and stakes of representations of the war of independence in the contemporary construction of the French and Algerian art scene.

A seminal text of Contemporary Mexican poetry, inspired by the Tarahumara and peyote rituals. Included in appendix is the first manifesto of infra-realism, written by Anaya in 1975.

The historical-memorial narrative in comics, from Art Spiegelman to Marjane Satrapi, as a new form of representation of History, between individual and collective memory.

Philosopher Ludger Schwarte presents a critical essay against the notion of contemporaneity in art and pleads for a renewed temporality: an art of futurity.