Essay

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.

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.

Bill Evans / Scott LaFaro / Paul Motian (1959-1961): the story of one of the most original, dazzling and influential trios in jazz history, and of the recording of three legendary albums.

A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.

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

A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic, critical, and poetic experience of living life led by death.

An essay on the new challenges facing exhibition curators.

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

Image and contemporary art in the post-digital age.

An investigation into the current social architectures that determine the perception of the notion of "evil"... and the production of figures that embody it.

A how-to manual for free improvisation music.

A caustic diagnosis of the situation of the current art, by one of its major protagonists.

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?

The first French translation of the landmark work by media theorist Friedrich Kittler.

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.

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

The aesthetic and functions of the mirror in contemporary art.

A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.

An original reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work and “impulses”, between aesthetic and psychoanalytic reflection.

First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”

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.

A study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of installation art.

A text by Christof Migone on a history of sound art and its relation to performance.

Five essays.

The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.

The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”

Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980 ("A protest aimed at the libertarians of the present and the future, about the surrenders of 1980") was published in 1981. It was only signed with the word Incontrôlé ("Uncontrolled"), didn't bear the name of any publisher, and was printed on stolen paper.

The Nightmare of Participation calls for a format of conflictual participation—no longer a process by which others are invited “in,” but a means of acting without mandate, as uninvited irritant: a forced entry into fields of knowledge that arguably benefit from exterior thinking.

A collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.

The societal efficacy of art.

Criminal news item as current version of the ready-made: relations between the history of avant-gardes and the aesthetics of murder.

Towards the art world's inner contradictions between symbolic meaning and monetary value.

An analysis of some major contemporary works that challenge the traditional values of art.

An essay on the concept of utopia today, more relevant than ever at the time of the economic, social, ecological and intellectual crisis.