Philosophy

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

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

A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.

An account of the relationships between biology (as education, research, institutions etc.) and capital (in such forms as research grants, industries & corporations).

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

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

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

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

Issue devoted to previously unpublished lectures by Jean-Luc Nancy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 rigorous and mind-blowing account of the dynamics of capitalism today through an in-depth exposition of software, speculative finance, and the highest scales of arbitrage.

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.

A serious diagnosis of the current form of capital, a profound excavation and presentation of the most important and helpful ideas that Jean Baudrillard published: from the unravelling of western philosophy, to a redefining of marxist theories of economics and capital, to a shift in critical theory that complies with quantum theory (new expanded edition). 

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.

A scienticity reader of artistic, philosophical, theoretical moves on the epistemic instruments we spin to intimate the universe.

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.

An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.

An conceptual attempt to think differently about freedom in its acts.

A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

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.

What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.

A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.

Emanuele Coccia analyzes Ernesto Neto's artistic practice and its profound relationship to the body, the senses, the environment and the wider community.

L'Éclat de l'absolu is a crucial work for anyone interested in Alain Badiou's thought. Through interviews conducted by philosopher and editor Jana Ndiaye Berankova, readers are invited to immerse themselves in a rich and nuanced dialogue exploring the major philosophical influences—Plato, Hegel, Sartre, Althusser, Lacan and Deleuze—that have shaped Badiou's thought.

61 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fifth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from August -September 2024, organized according to a "deviant taxonomy" of nine new categories: Is That All There Is?; What a Body Can Do; The Physicists’ Laugh; Dens, clubs, hives, and cells; The Tourist; Flickers; Promethean Shame; Proxies; and Inextinguishable Fires.

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.

Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.

An essay that intellectually deepens the historically traced furrows of colonial aberrations, crossing political science, philosophy, anthropology and psychoanalysis.

Translated into French for the first time, Vivian Sobchack's Le corps du film – Une phénoménologie de l'expérience filmique offers a new perspective to the phenomenological tradition through an interrogation of our cinematographic experience and, more generally, of our relationship to screens.

On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.

Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.

The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.

The cross-generational literary journal Luvah continues its comeback with an eclectic mix of fashion-related offerings.