Art & utopia

This issue brings together four articles (by Michel Antony, Loïc Foulon, Gilles Gourbin, Jean-Claude Sosnowski), two projects (by Michel Cordillot and Patrick Samzun), and a great number of reading notes which demonstrate the significant vitality of the research on Fourier, Fourierism, and utopia.

Sur vol. II invites a series of encounters between artists, writers, and curators working in the Middle East and in Mexico to explore the rich, relatively uncharted history linking both places, especially around the notions of utopia and exile.

The artistic and pedagogical experimentations and the alternative networks developed in California from the late sixties.

Outer space as the place for dreams, revolts, and revolutions: forty authors and artists explore utopian and political possibilities beyond earth.

Box set including a book and a film on DVD.

Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.

Two documents and three articles: unpublished texts by Charles Fourier and Eugène Pottier; Georges Orsoni, Denis Andro, and Michel Antony address original perspectives on Fourierism and the spirit of utopia in general.

A book about a fictional architecture office in a modernist social housing complex in Brussels, where real architects and locals worked together to make scale models: a reflection on scale models as spaces of negotiation, on maquettes as places where the desire of the architect is visible without the compromises of reality.

Artist's book, based on the film A Sixth Part of the World by Dziga Vertov (1926).

An epistemology of historical socialism (politics, natural sciences, humanities and religion in the early XIXth century).

A study of social utopias (of European origin, mainly French) in Latin America in the 19th century: a contribution to the defense of utopia as a driving force of human progress, against all forms of utilitarianism and pragmatism.

A collection of poems dedicated to the Revolutionary Left Movement's struggle against fascism in Chile.

Andrea Pichl's photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date, with two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein.

A dystopian tale describing a guerilla between fascist militias and utopist groups.

Simone Debout's re-edited version of Fourier's essential work.

First monograph: a transversal survey and a critical analysis of the sculptural work of the French artist who questions the suburban destiny of modernist utopias.

Utopias, dystopias, and anarchy in the Sixties counterculture and popular music. Plus a special feature on heavy-metal studies.

An overview of French revolutionary armed groups from 1968 to 2000.

The function of utopian thinking in urban planning and spatial culture (based on the project by Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley).

A critical biography.

An introduction to the “work of resistance” of East German dramatist, poet, writer and essayist Heiner Müller.

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

Reference monograph, including most of Mai-Thu Perret's projects so far, introduced by short captions she has written, as well as newly commissioned essays by Elisabeth Lebovici and Diedrich Diederichsen.

New Dystopia is contemporary author Mark von Schlegell's illustrated screenplay-as-science fiction novel. In conjunction with the curator Alexis Vaillant, von Schlegell curated an exhibition of contemporary art at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, “Dystopia,” based on his novel's dystopian-present.

This publication documents the innovative pedagogic project of the International School Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in Manosque, conceived by architects Jean-Michel Battesti and Rudy Ricciotti.

Artist's book / first monograph.

A musical, pictorial and cinematographic journey, as many sensitive interpretations of the domain of Certes in Gironde. Through the prism of Ernest Valeton de Boissière, inventor of the place and transmitter of the social utopias of the 19th century.

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

This artist's book is an illustrated and disenchanted reflection on democracy and its imperfections. Using two different colors, the artist dissociates two layers of meanings—the text and the image—while maintaining a close dialectic.

Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.

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 visual anthropology study on the Wagenburgs and the Berliner punk community.

New Marxist perspectives.

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

Pistoletto's theater and performances.

A Glossary of artists' utopias.

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

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.

An unfinished project by Eisenstein inspired by the deconstruction of traditional architecture and its ideologies.

Anthology of Yona Friedman's drawings published from 1975 to 1992 in more than thirty countries and in twenty languages. This last volume focuses on the artist's researches on language, interpretation and improvisation within the urban environment.