Essay

If pornography, for some, is not presentable, it is argued here that pornography is necessary, and that it is even the only ideal way to try to think freely the meaning, the value of art.

13 monographical essays on contemporary works (Merz, Bart, Duprat, Verjux, Armleder, Fauguet, Honegger, Boeno, Spoerri, Morellet, Downsbrough, Saytour, Dezeuze).

Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.

Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.

Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.

A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond, Daniel Birnbaum's Chronology was presented in frieze as a “compelling and sophisticated take on the common theme of Deleuzian immanence."

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.

Philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray analyzes the nature of Bettina Rheims' photos, and develops the thesis of a work which, more than scandalous or sulphurous, introduces new models of representation of our society.

A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.

An essay on Novarina's dramatic theatrical and literary work.

This first monograph (both a study and an essay) highlights the diversity and span of Adrian Schiess' work.

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age (also available in English edition).

An anthology of the artist's important essays, published between 1978 and today in the pages of Artforum, Flash Art and Lawson's own magazine Real Life.

Essay.

The art scene for collectors, and art and economics.

Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.

A collection of essays on ten contemporary artists (Peinado, Achour, Sala, Cattelan, Huyghe, Scanlan, Trouvé, Bublex).

How can the events in which we are supposed to participate be translated into experience? How can we represent ourselves in a History that is being written in terms of the economy and the stock market? Along these questions, French author Jean-Charles Massera discusses the works of various artists (Vito Acconci, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Pierre Huyghe, et al.) and film-makers (Jean-Luc Godard, Wong Kar-wai, Nanni Moretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al.).

A study on Elisabeth Ballet, Jessica Stockholder, Claude Rutault, Peter Downsbrough, Cécile Bart.

Those who spread their image over Internet, what do they want? And what do those who view them get out of it? Numerous are those who jumped on the bandwagon of the webcam, pushing its spectrum of video-surveillance and condemning it to voyeurism or exhibitionism. Far beyond the simplistic idea of opposing exhibitionist / voyeur, actor / spectator, active / passive, the webcam serves as a meeting point of exchanges, complicity, views of or relationships with others, what Nicolas Thély terms as "web-intimacy".

A selection of essays by the artist, poet, writer, happening-maker, cinematographer, art and literary critic.

An essay on conceptual art.

A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.

Bob Nickas' writings.

Bob Nickas' writings (English edition).

Exhaustive first presentation of Christian Robert-Tissot's work.

What canvases reveal to us is often beyond what we believe we understand. Like true false semblances, they subtley encourage us to turn away from them in order to engage ourselves in their hidden intrigues (where they often meet our own).

A journey into the universe of one of the most original composers in the field of the concrete music.

Also available in English edition.

An essay to demonstrate Fourier's fundamental role in the emancipation of women and the transformation of society, "for the sake of imagination, of permanent interaction between sensitivity and reason."

A narrative.

A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.

A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.

A serious diagnosis of the current form of capital, a profound excavation and presentation of the most important and helpful ideas that Jean Baudrillard published: from the unravelling of western philosophy, to a redefining of marxist theories of economics and capital, to a shift in critical theory that complies with quantum theory. 

A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.

A how-to manual for free improvisation music.

The first publication of a lost 1978 text by Peter Gidal—one of the most influential experimental filmmakers ever.

The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.

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

The first English translation of Jacques Rancière's early philosophical text "The Dialectic of Reason and Private Interest", originally published in 1963. Written under the influence of Louis Althusser, the text is discussing the forms of law in Karl Marx's writings on the "debates on the law on thefts of wood".

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

Collection of recent essays and poems in which the American poet and critic examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, architecture's relationship to language, and feminist economies of writing, reading, and art making.

This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms (essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York).

Queer theory as a critical tool against the very idea of identity in art.

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 comparative history of the ruins from the ancient East to the modern West.

Jean Epstein's complete writings.

A collection of essays in which Chantal Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in today's world and their relation to the development of art practices.

An analysis of the experience of spatiality in dance, through five works by Xavier Le Roy, Yvonne Rainer, Olga Mesa, Boris Charmatz, and Merce Cunningham.