Philosophy

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

Six conferences on Franco-German epistemology—from Gaston Bachelard to Bruno Latour, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Lacan—held by biologist Hans-Jörg Rheinberger from 1994 to 2007. The title pays homage to the thought of French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Collection of interviews with author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge and philosopher and professor of literature Joseph Vogl, specially produced by Kluge for German television.

A multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society: 47 contributions by international thinkers and actors of the art world (with 9 movies on DVD).

Neomaterialism explores the meaning of the world of commodities, and reintroduces various notions of dialectical materialism into the conversation on the subjectivity and vitalism of things.

The first in-depth study of the reception of “French Theory” by American artists since the early 1960's.

Interpretative destiny of Kant's aesthetics.

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.

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

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.

A collective work / exhibition on paper / second reading book / subjective anthology: ten artists' inserts conceived ​​specifically for the book, and ten historical and contemporary philosophical texts (Bloch, Lukács, Poincaré, Sloterdijk...) in relation.

A collection of documents of Tom McCarthy's “semi-fictitious organisation” International Necronautical Society, cofounded with Simon Critchley.

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.

The Dingdingdong Manifesto / Institute for the coproduction of knowledge about Huntington's Disease.

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.

The political chronicle of the world held by Franco Berardi, by e-mail, on social networking and online publication platforms, from 2009 to 2012.

A heroic performance bringing together seven renowned thinkers, held to talk, on the principle of the Deleuzian ABC, of 26 different themes, during 26 hours... while drinking wine regularly.

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

Retrospective catalogue of the 21th edition of the contemporary art festival in Toulouse, France, curated by Anne Pontégnie.

A collective essay as much as an exhibition catalogue, dedicated to the imaginary of the savage, from the 15th century to the contemporary culture, based on Rousseau's conception of state of nature.

The relationship between language and thought in pedagogy and humanities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

An essay of political philosophy in which José M. González García examines the role of the metaphor in politics throughout history.

Rancière and aesthetics (anthology).

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

A new approach to the history of Fourierism and societary movement, based on the project of a biographical dictionary of Fourierism.

The extended new edition of the out-of-print publication of the same name, from the year 1996, appears on the occasion of the death of Friedrich Kittler. Along with an introduction, it contains an extensive and unabridged interview with Stefan Banz and Kittler's unusual text Skiagraphia, die Schattenschrift (the shadowed text) from 2005.

Two both aesthetic and political engaged considerations on the relationship between the West and the Middle East (or more generally between the West and its others), from the figures of exile and the two cultures: three unpublished interviews of Edward W. Said / a deconstruction of a common European view on the Arab world by Seloua Luste Boulbina.

A series of portraits of philosophers remained outside majority movements of contemporary thought (Gabriel Tarde, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, John Dewey, Charles Péguy, Etienne Souriau, Raymond Ruyer, and Gilbert Simondon), brought together around the theme of the “possession”.

A confrontation of the works of Marx, Freud, and Lacan.

This second issue brings together contributions reflecting on the political commitment and literary work of Jean-Marc Rouillan, and shedding light on three of Rouillan's most important influences today: philosophers Daniel Bensaïd and Henri Lefebvre, and activist Pierre Goldman (with contributions by Véronique Bergen, Charles Pennequin, Julien Blaine, Rada Ivekovic, Pierre Linguanotto, Laurence Denimal, Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou…).

Derrida's postcards to Blanchot, essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, Didier Cahen, Kevin Hart, Michel Deguy, lectures at the Collège International de Philosophie (Gisèle Berkman, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland), studies (Jérémie Majorel, Daniel Dobbels, Yuji Nishiyama), reading notes...

This volume assembles articles that investigate the question of the possible and the impossible in politics. Discussing thinkers such as Agamben, Badiou, Foucault, and Debord, Beyond Potentialities? explores different perspectives and highlight the relevance of this issue for contemporary political thought.

Collection of fictitious transcripts of radio speeches by experts on subjects such as art in life, the scarcity of water, cigarettes, or neighborhood relations. Among the 21 speeches, only one is authentic. A humoristic take on the notion of expert, and its propagandist deviation.

Essays by Patrick Samzun, Louis Ucciani, Tomomi Fukushima, Quentin Detourbet, Denis Andro...

An experimental selection of documents from the archives of the city of Marseilles, constituting a visual representation of biopower as theorized by philosopher Michel Foucault.

Part philosophical anthology and part science fiction, this illustrated volume tackles the mind-boggling phenomenon of post-humanism. Journey to the End of the Species offers various proposals to actually create successors to the human race, establishing a set of resources--literary, artistic and political--to initiate thinking about a previously inconceivable future beyond humanity as we know it.

Part philosophical anthology and part science fiction, this illustrated volume tackles the mind-boggling phenomenon of post-humanism. Journey to the End of the Species offers various proposals to actually create successors to the human race, establishing a set of resources--literary, artistic and political--to initiate thinking about a previously inconceivable future beyond humanity as we know it.

An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.

From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.

Charles Fourier's theories and archives, his disciples and the concrete becomings of his utopian system, his influences in history, in modern and contemporary art... with about 20 essays and 300 illustrations.

A pornographic text in which the author gives a desperate speech to his beloved. A nerve-racking narrative in which Michel Surya pushes the limits of excess.

The first issue of the collective review edited by philosopher and playwright Alain Jugnon gathers contributions inspired by the works of Michel Surya, and of three of his main influences, Beckett, Kafka, and Pascal.

New Marxist perspectives.

This publication features fictions dealing with physical deformations and doubles, in order to reflect on the duality of man and the body.