A polyphonic, hybrid work, somewhere between a fine architectural book and a scientific essay, the result of research into contemporary forms of insulation.

The richness of cultural exchanges between Italy and Switzerland, especially in terms of architectural culture, is the framework within which this publication was conceived and structured. The editorial project retraces and expands some of the themes addressed during the first seven years of the Swiss Talks, born in 2017 as a cultural partnership between the Istituto Svizzero and the architecture magazine Casabella.

Seven European women artists (Katinka Bock, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Rachel Labastie, Mélanie Matranga, Juliette Minchin, Valérie Mréjen, Agnès Thurnauer) brought together by Sébastien Gokalp share their views on Eva Hesse (1936–1970), a major figure of the 20th century.

The first monograph dedicated to the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working-class neighborhood of Hackney in London.

The very first monograph dedicated to the work of Bruno Pélassy (1966–2002), featuring all his works, installation views, and a vast range of materials from his unpublished personal archive.

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.

A collective exploration of sound, music and the socio-political dimensions of listening, from researchers and artists with perspectives from the global South.

First monograph on cinema duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.

The images shot on Egyptian film sets by prominent photographer Fouad ElKoury over more than a decade capture the essence of Arab cinema.

A panorama of the “ethnographic” collages created by Spanish feminist artist Eulàlia Grau in the early 1970s, providing a visual dissection that criticizes capitalist lifestyles and all forms of oppression.

The best of 2024: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.

In this prophetic 1978 essay, legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick explores the nature of reality, the power of media, and the authenticity of human experience, offering startling insights that resonate eerily with our modern world.

This double issue of the critical graphic design journal examines the origins of the automation and mechanization of translation and writing.

A lyrical portrait of Lebanon through the poetry of 60 native women authors.

The cultural and political legacies of the the 1933 and 1934 Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem.

A catalogue that features a group of 20 artists from Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, the Maghreb and the international scene and explores the profound changes of a period marked by the presence of technology, the post internet era.

An encounter between dance and visual arts.

The ultimate edition of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh's famous text, which explores, in the form of an ABC, the singular experience of improvising and free improvisation.

In the spring of 1966, four illustrious travelers cross the United States from west to east, photographing America's architecture at its heyday.

The extravagant villas designed between the 1960s and 1980s by Italian architect Mario Galvagni (1928-2020) for prosperous Lombard families.

A double vinyl and a catalogue that constitute a proper extension of the exhibition with which the Capc in Bordeaux continues to question the forms that the museum can take, with the aim of creating a renewed awareness of what it means to breathe, both on an individual and collective level, at a time when the world is living in a climate of generalized asphyxia.

Retrospective monograph.

A publication about twelve women artists in Tuscany and their alternative ways of making art, departing from dominant, male-centered models to embrace regenerative practices and transformative imaginaries.

A publication tracing the itinerary of Fiamma Montezemolo's anthropological and artistic research, across Italy, Mexico, and the United States.

Studio Manuel Raeder's 2025 sticker calendar.

The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno.

PhD and postdoc supervisors from Europe and beyond interrogate the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research.

This publication documents artist Leonor Antunes's installation at Lisbon's CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.

A book spanning Cosima von Bonin's work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references.

Comprehensive monograph.

Shu Lea Cheang, Martin Herbert, Adelita Husni-Bey, Karimah Ashadu, Byung-Chul Han, Anthony Huberman, Sohrab Mohebbi...

A rereading of Kurt Schwitters' Dada sound poetry by vocalist, singer and composer Anna Clementi and sound researcher, producer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Stern (Mona Mur / Einstürzende Neubauten).

A data glitch at the beginning of 2022 was the starting point for the sound art project 60 Seconds Each, as a result of a participatory artistic process initiated by Kristof Georgen: 32 tracks by 32 international artists form a 32-minute listening experience of diverse sound positions, each within minimal "expansion".

What does it mean to be a curator who writes, and, more specifically, how can curators write about textiles? This publication steps outside the framework of the typical exhibition catalogue to occupy "the space between literature and criticism".

The Forgive Us Our Trespasses Reader explores radical and emancipatory significations and fabulations of trespassing, turning towards practices that transgress and reshape the boundaries of, among other dimensions, currency, governance, religion, spirituality, language, and artificial intelligence.

The Dream Academy publication explores art education policy in Northern Norway, with the establishment of the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2007 as a pivot point.

First monograph.

Contested Landscapes is dedicated to different rural regions—their landscapes, their producers, and their work. The paths of the family of the artist Sandra Schäfer and those of the famous German photographer August Sander cross in the Westerwald, a rural area in Germany shaped by farming and mining.

Monograph based a project across multiple mediums, finding its primary reference in the Majnoon oil field of southern Iraq.

This edition presents the research of Brazilian choreographer, performer, teacher, visual artist, gardener, craftswoman and "post-pornographer" Acauã Shereya during her Master's degree in choreography and performance at ICI/CCN Montpellier.

Artistic expressions of mourning.

Camille Henrot, Meriem Bennani, Matt Copson, Diego Marcon, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, David Douard, P. Staff, Anne Imhof, Luca Guadagnino...

Christina Kubisch's Stromsänger finds this legendary sound artist at the top of her game mixing electromagnetic wave recordings with a score for six voices, creating powerful results. Stromsänger is based on a collaboration with the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices and on a special experience while researching and recording electromagnetic waves in the city of Trondheim.

The first ever vinyl release to attend to James Tenney's legendary "Postal Pieces", marking the first ever appearance of five of the suite's works on vinyl, drawing upon recordings made in 2003, by the Amsterdam based ensemble, The Barton Workshop, under the direction of James Fulkerson.

The first ever vinyl reissue of the seminal "New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media", from 1977, arguably the most important feminist statement in the history of experimental music, illuminating the work of Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Megan Robert, Ruth Anderson, and Laurie Anderson.

Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.

A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.

Futuring Spaces of Possibility explores how contemporary art and architecture address urban, social and ecological challenges and create new possibilities for the future city. It invites urban theorists, curators, artists and architects to use Bruges, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as a testbed for new spatial imaginaries.

The fifth issue of the Catalogue Perpétuel documents the exhibitions, projects and concerts at the Consortium Museum from July 2021 to May 2022.

The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, looks at the cut.

An edition like an archaeology of our more or less contemporary iconography of bread. A lacunary and subjective encyclopedia that reflects its presence in our lives and its political, social, economic, and aesthetic evolutions (artist's book).

First monograph: an exploration of the thought of the exhibition in relation to its spaces, contexts, and encounters.

A revelatory conversation that, grounded in lived experience, traces the racist structures of the discourse landscape and offers alternative ways of understanding solidarity.

A personal and intimate look behind the scenes of Meg Stuart's creative process over more than a decade.

Ronan Bouroullec's first comprehensive monograph, bringing together his drawings, sculptures and ceramics, and design objects and projects.

Ingo Giezendanner's wild herbarium.

First monograph.

This monograph explores the work and the artistic activities of Italian radical performer, poet, visual artist and feminist Tomaso Binga through a specific lexicon, and also features a selection of her poems.

Conceived as a catalogue and an artist's book, the publication offers a deeper insight into the eponymous 2022 exhibition staged at Indipendenza Roma, and explores tensions that can be generated between artworks and their surrounding architectural context, raising questions of taste, value, function and decoration.

Anne Houel's first book is dedicated to the monumental sculpture Tobrouk, installed on Ouistreham's Riva-Bella beach for one year in 2023, then moved to the Musée d'Art, Histoire et Archéologie in Évreux.

Following documenta 15's cascading logic, this issue then branches out, on the one hand, towards further engagements with Palestinian art and visual culture as a way to fend off ongoing erasure and, on the other, towards new understandings of geographies of art practices and histories.

Issue 38 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material.

A drawn chronicle of sleepless nights, Vigil brings together over one hundred and sixty drawings by the artist.

Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features (book augmented with 151 sound examples to download).

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

Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.

Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.

A new collection of writings by the composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt, considering among other topics the rich points of contact between minimalist musical aesthetics and intuitionistic mathematics.

Judith Eisler's first monograph, bringing together paintings made between 1997 and 2024, featuring an essay by Kirsty Bell, an introduction by Christopher Bollen, and an interview with Wade Guyton.

Across objects, writing, sound and choreography, British artist Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. This volume surveys her artistic output of the last five years.

Retrospective monograph.

Focusing on Lenke Rothman's unique, conceptual approach to her working materials, this publication presents selected parts of her extensive production, including paintings, drawings, installations, books, sculptures, objects and textiles.

A collection of the artist's writings from 2019 to 2024.

In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023), author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character and path.

The new volume of an experimental series on historiography, about toys.

Winter Family's 4th album tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.

A visual, experimental research on the architectonic potential of the horizontal surface in building processes.

30 artists and 10 authors talk about water.

A critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponent Ješa Denegri.

The fifth issue of the annual graphic design journal, dedicated to image and print techniques.

This first issue of the annual magazine on architecture, scenography and design brings together designers and artists whose approach is anchored in their perception and emotions. Featuring GGSV, Formafantasma, Atelier Senzu, Flora Fishbach, Romain Brau, Bunker Palace, Pinaffo & Pluvinage, Atelier blam, Xolo Cuintle, etc.

Four decades of urban change in London's East End: a comprehensive retrospective of the British photographer's documentation work since the 1980s.

An exploration of queerness in visual and material culture with regard to the specific conditions of the making and experience of art in different cultural, sociopolitical, and historical contexts.

La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.

Centered around the themes of latent knowledges, earth uprisings and borders, this second volume in the Radical Rituals series is the result of a research residency carried by forty five degrees collective in the summer of 2022 across France, from 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E.

The 2025 Toilet Paper wall calendar.

The first monograph of Puerto Rican born artist Lee Quiñones presenting his monumental work and following his evolution over five decades.

A photographic investigation with around 50 New York artists still benefiting from the "loft" law, intended to protect financially troubled artists living illegally in the city's commercial and industrial lofts from eviction.

The soundtrack to Murnau's Nosferatu composed / improvised / played by the trioof Emmanuelle Parrenin, Quentin Rollet and Jérôme Lorichon. The book accompanying the CD contains four versions of the Nosferatu story by four French artists: Marie-Pierre Brunel, Foolz, Caroline Sury and Alexios Tjoyas.

Monograph dedicated to Caroline Rennequin's flower paintings (gouaches on Indian paper), with texts by Yves Michaud and Émilie Ovaere-Corthay.

Retrospective monograph.

Pierre Wat invites height artists from both sides of the Atlantic to share their views of Sam Francis (1923-1994).

A chronological dive into a decade of production from one of the major representatives of contemporary drawing, with over 500 images and an essay by Catherine Francblin.

ToiletAlex PaperPrager is the new edition of Toilet Paper magazine, born from a collaboration with american artist Alex Prager: a vibrant dialogue between visionary minds, where the ironic style of Toilet Paper meets the dark humor of Alex Prager, a parade of familiar yet strange images, suggesting a timeless world placed somewhere between dream and reality.

15 years of conversations between Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant and his friend Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The collaboration of two American greats: master of metafiction Robert Coover and graphic legend Art Spiegelman.

Charismatic Spirals is for an America circa 2024, where poetry—the art of developing new means of speaking—has never been of such artistic, technological and political consequences.

The English translation of the work that established the Icelandic author's literary career—an exploration of eroticism in extremism.

"For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home." A work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.

A "minor" and alternative history of architecture.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.

A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.

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

This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).

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.

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

Architect Patrick Bouchain's reading of the work and his friendship with Pierre Guyotat, as well as an analysis by Bouchain and numerous members of Guyotat's creative community of the power of the alliance between vision and word, image and poem, in the author's work.

A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.

Christian Laurella, writer and tour manager ("orchestra conductor", as Ahmad Jamal puts it), recalls his European tours with the greatest figures in American jazz—Chet Baker, Archie Shepp, Tony Williams, Jaco Pastorius, etc.

An essential guitarist for over forty years, and an enlightened partner to John Zorn, Tom Waits and John Lurie, Marc Ribot composes here, through memories, short stories and essays, a self-portrait of rare originality.

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

A limited-edition box containing a booklet poem, a photo plate and a pocket mirror.

The indispensable equine calendar by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses.

First monograph, documenting the filmmaker's work as a whole, at the intersection of independent cinema, contemporary art, photography and installation.

A political and aesthetic critique of racial capitalism and modes of social experimentation in the form of resistance to the colonial commons.

Collection of portraits published between 1938 and 1955 in the New Yorker by one of the pioneer of New Journalism: a literary painting of a New York that no longer exists.

Assisted suicide activists; Lebanon under the bombs; activism at the museum; Laurène Marx; prison life at Les Baumettes in Marseille; in the poetry of Laura Vazquez...

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

This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.

As part of a series of publications on singular architectural bodies of work, this volume focuses on three stone projects by Gilles Perraudin, an advocate of the renewed use of this material.

Journalist Olivier Namias and photographer Luc Boegly combine their views of the work carried out between 1970 and 2008 by architect Jean-Patrick Fortin (a villa, a pharmacy and a townhouse) in the Italian commune of Caprino Veronese.

This collective publication explores the question of Earth rights through the interdisciplinary prism of socio-environmental humanities in relation to contemporary art.

Photographic drift in Saint-Denis in the footsteps of the ghost of Osugi Sakae, Japanese anarchist-activist who would have held a speech there 100 years ago. A way for artists to put the urban reality of le Grand Paris under pressure.

A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).

A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.

An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.

How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.

The notion of primitivism rethought to highlight the role of the African referent in the development of the artistic and literary avant-garde in Europe.

JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.

The first collection of texts published in French by the Argentinian artist and poet.

Using an interdisciplinary approach inspired by science and technology studies, and combining museological and sociological perspectives, this groundbreaking study of museum storerooms sheds new light on the world of art and cultural heritage conservation.

A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.

A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.

An essay by Yoann Sarrat on two works by Jean-François Bory and Kathy Acker.

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

An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.

Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.

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

A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers” (also available in English edition).

To mark the centenary of Surrealism, this ephemeral journal, featuring 150 contemporary voices from literature, art, cinema, poetry, theater, and civil society, brings together over 200 unpublished contributions, responding to the surrealist enquiries.

Book-object: a collection of fifty drawings made on a train, within the meanders of a straight line.

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.

Parker and Pollock's seminal volume of feminist art history.

The first scientific work to trace the history of female comic strip creators, for the (re)valorization of women's heritage.

The most comprehensive case study ever written on the crucial subject of text typography, by one of the major representatives of this discipline.

Twelve articles by Michael Bierut, translated into French and annotated, complemented by a selection of his most emblematic projects.

A spectacular insight into the work of art director Willy Fleckhaus for the German magazine twen, which in the 1960s was arguably the world's most influential magazine in terms of visual daring and graphic innovation, and remains an essential reference for many contemporary practitioners.

This essay examines and explains the history of the most famous classic typeface and its many modern and contemporary incarnations.

A poetic conversation, in five acts, between Yvon Lambert (Paris), Marie-Charlotte Calafat (director of the Mucem collections), Stéphane Ibars (artistic director of the Lambert collection), and numerous artists, accompanies the exhibition, which brings together works from the Yvon Lambert collection and Mucem folk art objects.

50 poems by Pauline Picot, autobiographical fragments that also reflect the daily lives of those around her.

Reissue of Charles Pennequin's first book, a lengthy text in which the author's writing is characterized by obsessive repetition, a breathless rhythm, a combination of introspective movement and prosaic elements, and a staging of proferation.

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.

Conversation on art, real and imaginary, in 13 tableaux between ex-Action directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan and painter Laurent Marissal.

This book takes the domestic dog as an affective standard, a practical horizon and an index of a moral economy specific to the capitalocene.

Inducing daydreams, walking under hypnosis, thwarting curfews.

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.

This monographic essay explores Iris Clert, an unclassifiable and emblematic figure of the 1960s artistic avant-garde.

The story/manifesto of an architect's life: a re-reading of Gilles Perraudin's career by himself, enabling us to retrace the path of a thought in perpetual motion.

An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.

A vast selection of theoretical, philosophical and literary writings by Pierre Schaeffer, accompanied by testimonies of various personalities, providing a privileged entry into the multidimensional universe of the composer, engineer, theorist and radio man, whose tutelary shadow is constantly cast on the landscape of sound creation.

A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).

The first French translation of the texts of the Japanese artist and writer Akasegawa Genpei (Katsuhiko Akasegawa, aka Otsuji Katsuhiko, 1937-2014), a figure of the Tokyo avant-garde of the 1960s, on the concept of Tomason, with a rich iconography.

An audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century.

A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.

A chronicle of the recent transformations of art schools, from the point of view of a teacher, at a time when these spaces are both threatened by increasingly fragile and uncertain public policy management, and at the same time more than ever spaces where the word opens up, practices change and art finds itself in direct contact with the most avant-garde movements in society.

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

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.

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.