Essay

A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.

Image and contemporary art in the post-digital age.

A how-to manual for free improvisation music.

The first publication of a lost 1978 text by Peter Gidal—one of the most influential experimental filmmakers ever.

The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.

A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.

The first English translation of Jacques Rancière's early philosophical text "The Dialectic of Reason and Private Interest", originally published in 1963. Written under the influence of Louis Althusser, the text is discussing the forms of law in Karl Marx's writings on the "debates on the law on thefts of wood".

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?

Collection of recent essays and poems in which the American poet and critic examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, architecture's relationship to language, and feminist economies of writing, reading, and art making.

Queer theory as a critical tool against the very idea of identity in art.

The aesthetic and functions of the mirror in contemporary art.

A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.

An original reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work and “impulses”, between aesthetic and psychoanalytic reflection.

First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”

An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).

A comparative history of the ruins from the ancient East to the modern West.

Jean Epstein's complete writings.

A collection of essays in which Chantal Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in today's world and their relation to the development of art practices.

An analysis of the experience of spatiality in dance, through five works by Xavier Le Roy, Yvonne Rainer, Olga Mesa, Boris Charmatz, and Merce Cunningham.

A study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of installation art.

A text by Christof Migone on a history of sound art and its relation to performance.

Five essays.

The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.

The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”

Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980 ("A protest aimed at the libertarians of the present and the future, about the surrenders of 1980") was published in 1981. It was only signed with the word Incontrôlé ("Uncontrolled"), didn't bear the name of any publisher, and was printed on stolen paper.

The Nightmare of Participation calls for a format of conflictual participation—no longer a process by which others are invited “in,” but a means of acting without mandate, as uninvited irritant: a forced entry into fields of knowledge that arguably benefit from exterior thinking.

A collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.

The societal efficacy of art.

Criminal news item as current version of the ready-made: relations between the history of avant-gardes and the aesthetics of murder.

Towards the art world's inner contradictions between symbolic meaning and monetary value.

An analysis of some major contemporary works that challenge the traditional values of art.

An essay on the concept of utopia today, more relevant than ever at the time of the economic, social, ecological and intellectual crisis.

A history of television that's both technical and sensitive: between personal memories and a chronology of advances and innovations, Alain Bourges plunges us into the world of television in his own way.

As a Weasel Sucks Eggs examines the enigmatic relation of melancholia to an early kind of cannibalism, which psychoanalysis, in particular, stressed. It contains readings of, amongst others, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Sigmund Freud, G. W. F. Hegel, and the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf.

A study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (with a special project by Olafur Eliasson).

Drawing on fresh readings of Marxist and post-modern thought, renowned German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen compares the abstract and climbing values of artworks with the plunging value of music—a traditionally immaterial art—in order to formulate a broad reflection on the current “crisis of value in the arts.”

An extensive essay, Varieties of Audio Mimesis is many things: an investigation of the metaphoric relationship between music and landscape, a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia, and a theory of sound in the arts.

Essays and interviews on 20th century avant-gardes in France (from Dada to sound poetry, avant-garde reviews, happenings and events, Fluxus, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Gil J. Wolman, Camille Bryen...).

Essays and interviews by the American curator and critic: a portrait of the American art scene over the last few decades.

Written texts and films, interviews, symposia, and essays by a central figure in the history of the New York avant-garde.

A film-maker and curator's reflection on moving image and its viewer.

A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.

A collection of conferences for an exibition.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.

From “polemical” texts to extensive theoretical essays, passing through Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman or John Baldessari, these writings have proved to be among the most challenging ones.

A study on Richter's work with illustrations.