Philosophy

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.

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

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

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

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

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 increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy.

The Place of the Symbolic brings together Reiner Schürmann's essays on the nexus between art and politics.

A philosopher's journey into the heart of New York artistic life.

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”.

76 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists, published by e-flux between April–May 2024, arranged into 11 thematic chapters—ranging from the live question of cultural censorship through to the role of diagrams and notation in contemporary artistic practice.

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

Tribute to philosopher René Schérer (1922-2023), a great Charles Fourier specialist.

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

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.

An essay-length book arguing for the autonomy of art in the present.

A theory of passive vitalism.

The first issue of the artistic and literary magazine created by Christophe Le Gac and Rozenn Le Roux offers 240 pages of novels, poetry, essays, philosophy, thoughts and other experiences.

A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.

Double issue dedicated to the memory of Bernard Stiegler.

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.

In this tête-bêche book, Amandine André's Impossessions primitives, a text identifiable as poetic, meets philosopher Frédéric Neyrat's L'Anti-Terre, singularly opening up the field of possibilities and thought.

How does the world—and the world of visual culture in particular—creates itself in a creative act that knows no economic return.

A philosophico-cinematographic journey through Fassbinder's filmic oeuvre, from the avant-garde daring of 1968 to the fallout of the leaden years ten years later.

The sixth issue of the transversal journal, at the crossroads of art and thought, political philosophy, gender studies and academic knowledge, delves into the various forms of mutation that ripple through our world.

Three texts by Michel Guérin on the notions of ornament and decoration, at the crossroads of theological, anthropological, aesthetic and philosophical considerations.

The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.

The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.

A collection of early texts by Reiner Schürmann, on religion, Zen, language, Eckhart and Heidegger.

Charles Fourier or utopia as reality.

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

A series of exchanges relating to questions of gender, sexual difference and sexualities, enabling not only a rereading of Jean-Luc Nancy's corpus and its developments through the prism of what Nancy has called sexistence, but also the reinscription of the elaboration of this concept in a web of biographical elements and, hence, an exploration of the philosopher's actual sexistence.

The transdisciplinary journal continues its return around the theme of the chanson.

A collective publication resulting from a research project led by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel that takes as its starting point the way in which current geopolitical, economic and social changes induce a renewal and adjustment of artistic strategies, by investing, in an intersectional perspective, contextual thinking and feminist, queer and postcolonial thinking in an artistic and conceptual way.

Toward a Transindividual Self examines the process of performing the self, distinctive for the formation of the self in Western neoliberal societies in the 21st century. It approaches the self from a transdisciplinary angle where political and cultural anthropology, performance studies, and dramaturgy intersect.

A critical and ethical reflection on contemporary art and ecology, based on long-term research into the work of some twenty international artists committed to environmental issues.

An in-depth historical study of the artistic and political project of the Situationist International (1952-1972).

Cinema as a method of investigating the visible and a journey into the theoretical thinking of images.

The Complex Answer presents the reader with a selection of texts—from 2010 to 2021—that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking.

The first English language translation of Robert Linhart's The Sugar and the Hunger, originally published in 1980. Includes afterword by Luiz Renato Martins, and other materials.

Some insights into the imaginaries that inhabit techno-scientific realities, transforming our relationship with the world, closing or opening up the future.

Interviews with artists and researchers on the issues of catch and data.