A dialogue between the philosopher and the art historian around the encounter.

A punk philology (with Simon Critchley, Emanuele Coccia, Dennis Cooper, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kim Gordon, Donatien Grau, Richard Hell, Paul McCarthy...).

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Bernard Stiegler talk about what links them to philosophy.

Raphaëlle Milone's first novel, a dive into the heart of desires, acclaimed by Simon Liberati as well as by Jean-Luc Nancy.

A portrait of the Belgian architecture office Baukunst founded by Adrien Verschuere.

First French translation of José Esteban Muñoz's field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars.

The seventh entry in an ongoing series of anthologies, this book features rare poems alongside new essays and interviews that engage the artists and themes explored elsewhere in Blank Forms' public programming: Terry Allen, Thulani Davis and Jessica Hagedorn, Sarah Hennies and Judith Hamann, Tashi Wada and Charles Curtis, Milford Graves, Graham Lambkin by Alan Licht, Still House Plants, Angel Bat Dawid...

New edition of Thomas Köner's fourth album, recorded in 1994-1995.

Eight artists, among the many who have been profoundly marked by the work as rare as it is decisive of James Bishop (1927-2021), share their perspectives on the American painter.

The first issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, explores the identity, role and position of the Professor (contributions by Uli Aigner, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jörg Heiser, Christian Nyampeta, Vivian Slee and Marjorie Senechal).

A musical encounter between two important and uncompromising figures in contemporary experimental music in France.

A musical encounter between two important and uncompromising figures in contemporary experimental music in France.

Portraits and landscapes from the cinematographer famed for his work with Sam Mendes and the Coen brothers.

A trove of unseen and uncommon Ansel Adams photographs, assembled by Mike Mandel from archival collections.

An eclectic compilation of smart-phone snapshots from the past four years of the photographer's daily adventures.

An original multidisciplinary study of the text-image pair in its political dimension, from the militancy of the early twentieth century to the struggles for "visibility" of minorities.

An in-depth study of the elaboration of the functional architectures-sculptures of the American artist of Iranian origin Siah Armajani (1939-2020), between utopia and pragmatism, allegorizing as much the ideals as the contradictions of the American democracy before being dedicated to figures of the anarchy.

A provocative and stimulating manifesto by Benjamin Bratton that promotes new ways of inhabiting (and artificialising) the planet, facing the environmental, economic and social crisis that radically belies the possibility of a continuation of the current globalised capitalist model.

First French translation of a seminal text of media theory, which this edition contextualizes, notably through the debate it provoked with Baudrillard.

Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century textile art, Anni Albers' 1965 seminal text offers a brilliant meditation on the art of weaving, its history, tools, and techniques, and its implications for modern design (new expanded edition, with three critical texts and color illustrations).

Part of Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale, and following its lines of research, this publication, a 354-pages book conceived as a unique and parallel platform to the exhibition, offers an ensemble of inspiring texts that reflect and extend the theme of the Biennale.

Portraits in 22 tableaux based on the works and words of Bertolt & George Brecht.

Interférences is composed of three series of poems, constructed like textual photographs. The material of this poetry crosses collective memories (protests against the Gulf War...), social news and intimist inserts, in a logic of telescoping and/or blurring of data.

Vincent Lafaille reinvents a poetics built on the rhythm, sometimes hesitant, staggering, of walking, in a fragmented narrative that is rooted in the time of social movements (from 2016 to 2020) where the question of how to reinvest our cities and our lives—our present—raised.

A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins.

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20 and signed, contains an original artwork by the author.

The essential place of writing in the work of Josef Albers (1888-1976), one of the most important artists, painters and educators of the 20th century.

A critical and nuanced overview of the figures of the sleeping in the art and thought of the Renaissance, a source of inspiration for artists—Mantegna, Dürer, Brughel, Michelangelo or Tintoretto—as well as theologians, doctors and philosophers (from Aristotle to Zwingli, via Augustine and Montaigne), beyond the negative definition and the traditional condemnation of inactivity and unconciousness.

Critical re-edition in French of an absolutely precursory and fundamental work for the inclusion of social and environmental issues in the design process: the manifesto of a radical reconfiguration of the field of design, of its forms but above all of its mission.

A collective book that proposes to question human and non-human existence in the current social context, spanning different cosmogonic views.

Morceaux choisis is the first seminal overview of Saâdane Afif's artistic practices. The publication features 48 exhibitions or performances organized in 28 separate sections, covering a period of 14 years.

Window / Spacetime is a portrait of the city of Berlin. A variety of shops that have names of countries and cities refer to different faraway places and invite the reader on an imaginary journey. Dis- and misplacing distant memories of the past triggers a yearning sense of other destinations within the everyday scenarios.

Conceived in close collaboration with Shimabuku, this new publication tells of the poetic actions conducted during his travels, between his native Japan and Monaco via Brazil, Australia, and many other lands (with texts by the artist, Nicolas Bourriaud, Claire Le Restif and Rirkrit Tiravanija).

Travis Jeppesen revisits Éric Rohmer's The Green Ray; ten shortfictions by Nick Currie on works by Joachim Bandau; Patricia L. Boyd speaks with Dora Budor on probing the architectural, emotional, and psychological boundaries of an institution; Fahim Amir in conversation with Sohrab Mohebbi; focus on Julie Becker; Andrea Viliani on Giuseppe Desiato's autonomous, experimental, and both intimate and radically political practice; Tarek Lakhrissi in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist; Ella S. Mills on Ingrid Pollard...

Liu Xiaodong's series of paintings from the Texas-Mexico border.

Industrial production processes applied to literary translation and cultural creation.

Drawing as a sculptural medium.

First monograph.

New large-scale paintings and site-specific floor poster installation relating to youth culture movements, revolving around the states of bewilderment, uncertainty, and alienation, as well as enthusiasm and hope, that accompany the process of growing up.

Retrospective monograph.

The Roman period (1974-1976) of the Swiss artist Hannah Villiger (1951-1997), some decisive years where she developed the sculptural approach to photography that would shape all of her later work.

A photographic project about the history and repercussions of the life of German botanist and gardener Georg August Zenker.

A sculptor's life: on the career and innovations of Makoto Fujiwara.

The facsimile edition of the visionary sketches and notes of the surrealist master for Brian Gibson's horror film Poltergeist II.