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An unpublished manuscript written in 1978, transcribed in accordance with the specific pagination of the original, with a typesetting system developed specifically to reproduce the dynamics of Jean-Luc Nancy's writing.

A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.

Jean-Luc Godard and art (a return on Godard's controversial project at the Centre Pompidou in 2006).

Questioning neoliberalism: a collection of Jeff Derksen's writings on art, architecture, and globalism.

An anthology: selected criticism, essays, interviews, and curatorial projects, since 1986-2012.

A collection of previously unpublished or revised texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (1992-2012).

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.

Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.

A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.

First translation into French of a series of fundamental texts by Kandinsky, published in Russia in the early twentieth century.

Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions.

Through the medium of distinct films, Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner investigate contemporary questions regarding the ethics of recollection and memorialization within visual culture.

Four short essays in which philosopher Alain Brossat analyzes the use of the term “democracy” in contemporary discourse.

A study of the work of Olivier Mosset in 46 chapters.

An "archaeology" of contemporary art, between Matisse and Duchamp, between art and philosophy: a book to deconstruct the aesthetic regime of the image, for a new diagrammatic thinking, after Deleuze and Guattari.

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.

The enigma of the surrealist object, from its origins to its future, between the demystification of the artwork and the reinvention of reality.

First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).

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.

Picasso in front of the TV: unexpected links between the media—especially television—and Picasso's work.

The two philosophers share a dialogue on the representation of thought.

Sound avant-garde in architecture: a journey through architecture, art and music in the twentieth century.

Interpretative destiny of Kant's aesthetics.

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.

An introduction to Minsky's seminal theory on financial instability.

In the context of a pervasive and long-standing financial crisis, Joseph Vogl questions the capitalist system, its secrets, its modus operandi, and the way it perpetuates itself. One of the most noteworthy books on the economic crisis in Europe.

First monographic book on the unique work of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), at the crossroads of performance, of conceptual art, of video and of poetry.

The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.

A Leibnizian reinterpretation of the traditional opposition between French geometric and English landscape gardens.

Thomas Crow aims to explain what makes Warhol a precursor and a virtual paragon of the contemporary artist.

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.

The essays collected in Thinking – Resisting – Reading the Political engage with political phenomena in their interrelations with arts as well as with recent theoretical and philosophical perspectives on the very meaning of politics, the political, and community.

Six texts exploring the mutations of contemporary housing and objects.

The law after the dematerialization of the artwork: a legal perspective on contemporary art.

Design meets the world of services.

Igor Zabel's writings.

An analysis of the contemporary crisis of the concept of community, rethought in a philosophical but also poetical perspective, from the work of Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, René Char, and Henri Michaux.

A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.

Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.

Digital book.

In this short essay, philosopher Richard Shusterman discusses Arthur Danto's aesthetic theory and develops a new reflection to go beyond the differences between art and life.

This publication proposes a set of aural exercises that show readers how to disappear, reappear, join a group, or leave a group. Its annex is a lexicon of some of the sounds that dwell in or are banished from the middle-class household.

French edition of a study which not only offers new interpretations of Rauschenberg's work, but also deepens our understanding of the entire neo-avant-garde project.

Essay and interviews.

An investigation into the uses of “sound document” in music, since the beginning of phonography.