Philosophy

An essay by the distinguished philosopher and theorist of art and media on the current evolution and possible future of museum collections practices and strategies.

An attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, with references to Jonathan Crary, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin.

The meeting between the artist and the philosopher, working together to create a common space.

A series of interdisciplinary contributions around the political and social dimensions of ecology and its implications in the humanities and social sciences, artistic practices and design.

An essay on the Argentine director Hugo Santiago that questions the very definition of cinema.

The fifth and final part of Michel Surya's Matériologies: literature and thought to the test of the pandemic virality.

A dialogue between the philosopher and the art historian around the encounter.

A punk philology (with Simon Critchley, Emanuele Coccia, Dennis Cooper, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kim Gordon, Donatien Grau, Richard Hell, Paul McCarthy...).

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Bernard Stiegler talk about what links them to philosophy.

First French translation of a seminal text of media theory, which this edition contextualizes, notably through the debate it provoked with Baudrillard.

A critical and nuanced overview of the figures of the sleeping in the art and thought of the Renaissance, a source of inspiration for artists—Mantegna, Dürer, Brughel, Michelangelo or Tintoretto—as well as theologians, doctors and philosophers (from Aristotle to Zwingli, via Augustine and Montaigne), beyond the negative definition and the traditional condemnation of inactivity and unconciousness.

Sylvère Lotringer traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.

Sylvère Lotringer traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.

A polyphonic investigation that reveals the potential of fictional and philosophical suggestion of the animation of things, questioning the persistence of forms of animism within the project of modernity, in the horizon of a questioning of the anthropocentric foundations of the Western culture.

An artistic and scholarly inquiry into the  work of Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1700–after 1753), an outstanding philosopher of the early eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the first African to earn a doctorate in a European university.

Schürmann's lecture on Marx emphasizes the philosophical axis of the German theoretician's work and reads it as a transcendental materialism.

Silent Blocks considers two point of views on the Covid-19 pandemic and the way it is dealt by Western countries during the lockdowns of spring 2020. First, Myr Muratet's photographs in a silent Paris. Then, the thoughts of Canadian science journalist David Cayley, based on the work of philosopher Ivan Illich.

The collection of writings on art by the French philosopher, historian, semiologist and art critic Louis Marin (1931-1992).

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

Can objects be traumatized? How does the commercial value of an art object relate to its aesthetic qualities? How do objects interact? These are some of the questions addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of the Speculative Realism school of thought in contemporary philosophy.

The deep political and moral ambiguity attributed to the maritimeelement in Western philosophical and literary imaginaries.

A philological and theoretical rereading of the late work of Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788).

David Graeber's interviews (with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman) redefine the contours of what an anarchist morality could be today.

A collective and transdisciplinary reflection on the notion of distraction, thought both as the stigma of our societies and as its antidote.

Valentin Husson overturns the traditional hierarchy between being and having, rehabilitating the latter as an ecological imperative, in order to rethink our relationship to the environment, in an innovative re-reading of the history of philosophy.

A history of the concept of data.

Vegetal life at the forefront of philosophical thought.

An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.

Charles Fourier and ecology.

A phenomenology of voice and hearing.

Rethinking cosmopolitanism without its exploitative grip through alternative traditions and practices of the cosmopolitan from across the globe.

David Graeber's interviews (with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman) redefine the contours of what an anarchist morality could be today.

A journey through the life and way of thinking of the French intellectual, medical biologist, philosopher and writer.

A collective and transdisciplinary study of the representation of plants and their powers to reflect on the question of animation, cinema, photography and, more broadly, image, in the Anthropocene era and in the context of the "vegetal turn" at work in the human sciences as well as in contemporary art.

Thinking design with philosophy (a teaching manual).

Four texts about the sky by Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), English aristocrat, writer, philosopher and scientist whose salon was home to Descartes, Hobbes and Gassendi, precursor of feminism and author of one of the first works of science fiction.

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).

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.

Two thinkers of different generations discuss the question of sexuality and philosophy.

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.

A transdisciplinary discussion on the influence of computer-based technologies on the conditions of biological research.

A manifesto for artistic research and in defense of its autonomy.

Six short stories by Maria Kakogianni, between literary fiction and philosophy.

Four essays by philosopher and musicologist Peter Szendy on Anri Sala's recent practice. Szendy emphasises the key role played by music and sound in Sala's sensorial installations.

Diaphanes #8/9 looks into curious loops of reproduced present, the integral of circular I-effects, the other side of the social Möbius strip. Is the self nothing but an echo? An effect without cause? The human being a message, an autoreply in the jargon of social-memes? Who or what massages the backchannel so astoundingly self-similarly, like an invisible hand?