Philosophy

An insect theory of media to understand our media devices and our technological modernity.

What is the relationship between mathematics and philosophy? How does the project of "mathematical ontology" redefine the link between multiplicities and being? M=O? brings together leading scholars exploring and questioning Alain Badiou's thesis that "mathematics is ontology" and its evolution.

Forest Encounters invites you into the forest and its many meanings. It brings together voices from different disciplines, geographies, and cultures. Artists, foresters, art historians, philosophers, anthropologists, wildlife researchers, landscape architects, and writers all participate in this collective reflection on the diverse meanings, challenges, and perspectives related to the forest.

A fascinating journey through the long history of media before the age of mass media.

A powerful and highly original psychoanalytical, philosophical, and political exploration of the dimensions of sensitivity, the unconscious, and psychedelia in the context of an experience based on medicinal plants (peyote, mushrooms, and ayahuasca) and psychotropic drugs, in the wake of Félix Guattari's thinking.

Poetry and Revolution brings together three previously untranslated essays by the Czechoslovak avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951), accompanied by a polemical introduction by Peter Zusi placing Teige's thinking in the context of debates on "Western" and "Eastern" Marxism.

An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.

Jonathan Crary decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

The French translation of a seminal work considered to have sparked the "affective turn" in philosophy and cultural theory.

A compendium of landmark interviews and seminal essays that illuminates the spirited transcontinental exchange between acclaimed postwar American artist of gestural abstraction Sam Francis and renowned French philosopher and art critic Yves Michaud.

e-flux Index first special thematic issue, concentrating on the relationship between art and theory today, brings together essays by some 100 international contributors considering the relationship of theory to artistic practice, architectural practice, contemporary politics, and arts education.

A genealogy of the modern artist.

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

Leading contemporary artists and thinkers elaborate on how our increasingly networked societies are shaping—and shaped by—exchanges among people and machines.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

Three essays in which philosopher Étienne Balibar questions the notion of war through the thinking of Simone Weil, Carl von Clausewitz, and Karl Marx, as well as the current geopolitical situation and the war in Ukraine.

The 33rd issue of the cross-generational literary journal, focusing on the theme of ghosting and disappearance.

A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.

Index #8 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from March–May 2025. It includes contributions from 142 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.

When considered in parallel, Sigmund Freud's study of Michelangelo's Moses and his private collection of antique statuettes reveal elements of visual psychoanalysis that contradict the supposedly iconoclastic nature of this science.

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

An anthology of responses to Reiner Schürmann's philosophical research, writings, and commentaries.

The art and practice of live performance in the works of Charles Fourier and Fourierists past and present.

The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.

Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.

Considers the work of seven artists through the framework of art as research.

A contemporary artist and an anthropologist engage in dialogue with the history of anthropology, philosophy, and art in an attempt to approach the singularity of the human being.

A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".

Issue devoted to previously unpublished lectures by Jean-Luc Nancy

The critical edition of the pioneering work on art history by Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005), inventor of the concept of ecofeminism.

The posthumous publication of the German philosopher: a major work on the collapse of Western philosophy and on the necessity to rethink the past to build the future.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

Index# 6 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from October–November 2024. It includes contributions from 82 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic digressions that index the arts.

Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).

An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.

Two figures of adventurous and creative music discuss the relationship between improvised music and socio-political practices, through the prism of anarchist thought.

Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.