Philosophy

An essay on Charles Fourier's legacy through his disciples and "utopian" activists in late XIXth century.

A philosophical approach to the image in the margins or outer limits of art (from art brut to experimental art and its political extensions).

Inspired by a water tower conceived by architect Thierry Van de Wyngaert, philosopher Jean-Paul Curnier shares a text on his teenage years in South-East France.

Essay.

The architecture as method: an essay by philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe.

A short essay on the experience of intimacy in socialized modern life, followed by two new texts on the concepts of sustainability and habit.

Commentary on Walter Benjamin's theses: On the concept of history.

A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

A conversation between the architect and the philosopher.

First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.

The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".

For the 20 years of Cahiers Charles Fourier: new issues, vast territories, meeting with readers of Fourier (architects, mediums, and anarchists); critical edition of Roland Barthes' researches on Fourier, actuality of Fourierism.

A conversation between the celebrated Russian philosopher and the young international artist from Georgia.

An essay / manifesto to reconsider the objectivity of the sensations provided by artworks, and to reconsider contemporary art in itself rather than as a genre, alongside modern and classical art.

An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.

A philosophical essay reflecting on ethics and poetics through the thought of Gilles Deleuze.

Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.

A study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (with a special project by Olafur Eliasson).

A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.

Special issue devoted to Victor Considerant (1808-2008).

An essay on Gary Hill's video work, taking Maurice Blanchot's writing as a starting point, between literature, philosophy, aesthics and psychoanalysis.

Two essays in which the Italian philosopher proposes a study of the concept of festivity.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

Hermeneutics: 6 patterns of analysis.

Two discussions about Karl Marx by the famous slovenian philosopher, illustrated by the German artist.

A new essay on Charles Fourier's social utopia.

A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond by the curator and art critic, around the works of Stan Douglas, Eija-Lisa Athila, Doug Aitken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tacita Dean, Darren Almond, Tobias Rehberger, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno.

The Fourierist Studies Association Review.

Fully illustrated 2nd edition with a new introduction and afterword by the author, annotated artwork illustrations, a special insert by Paul Chan, and flip-book sequences from two films.

Giordano Bruno's actuality.

On industrial metaphysics.

The Fourierist Studies Association Review.

An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.

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."

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.

An exploration of the body in contemporary culture (artist's book / collection of texts).

Quotes, aphorisms and stories to relate Tchouang-tseu's Eastern thought to Wittgenstein's philosophy.

This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.

The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.

Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..

In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.

A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.

A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.

Hiérarchie du cocuage proposes a system of classification, worthy of Linné for botany, in which he organizes the indomitable differences of beings and their diverse characters.

Jean-Luc Nancy reflects on the concept of value, around Soun-Gui Kim's “Stock exchange” project.

Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).