Philosopher Éric Alliez, in collaboration with art historian Jean-Claude Bonne, rethinks
Marcel Duchamp's legacy in relation to contemporary art and the image, psychoanalysis and gender: pursuing Duchamp's love of wordplay and tracks his transformation into Rrose Sélavy, revelling in contradiction, unmaking sense and disrupting gender and genre, Alliez's "essay in mutology" gives us a queer Duchamp who defies all (psycho)analysis.
Close to Félix Guattari and
Gilles Deleuze, who directed his doctorate, Éric Alliez is a professor in the
philosophy department of Paris 8. He has led an international career that has taken him to teach in Rio de Janeiro (State University), Vienna (Academy), Karlsruhe (Hoschschule), and London (Middlesex, then Kingston), where he still teaches. He is the author of many major works of philosophy and multiple writings between art and philosophy.
