Essay

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

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.

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.

An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.

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 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.

Limited edition signed by Birgit Pelzer and Gerhard Richter.

A study of German Renaissance painters and the social movements of the time.

Anselm Kiefer's universe revisited by the philosopher Jean-Noël Vuarnet.

A critical text on Niele Toroni's work, with exhibitions views and documents.

The Heideggerien deconstruction of metaphysics by Reiner Schürmann.

This first monograph in French on the Swedish artist Lars Fredrikson, situated at the intersection of art history, sound studies, and media studies, seeks to shed light on the distinctive features of his work by highlighting its dialogue with the history of painting, kinetic and electronic arts, music, and sound practices in art, as well as the epistemologies and material cultures of science and technology.

A detailed overview and history of "ero-guro-nansense", an editorial, artistic and literary movement of iconoclastic and subversive magazines in Japan in the 1925-1930s, ancestor and precursor of the post-war Japanese underground.

The first French translation of a selection of texts by Bolivian sociologist and intellectual Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: a way of thinking with and through images that challenges the distinction between scholarly knowledge and political practice, at the intersection of sociology, visual studies, and decolonial thought.

Essays and conversations on politics, philosophy, and technology that interrogate our cultural condition since the end of the Enlightenment.

On Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers and his witty, ingenious critique of postwar modern society.

Artmaking since the turn of the millennium, using compression algorithms as a descriptive tool.

The first French translation of texts by a pioneering American researcher on the concept of media infrastructures in our digital environments, this book introduces readers to the contemporary issues at the heart of a line of thought that touches on every aspect of our connected lives: technical, economic, social, cultural, emotional, ecological, and more.

A contribution, in the form of a philosophical treatise, to a theory of the transformation of ordinary historic buildings.

A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.

Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.

The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.