Philosophy

Proposals for an ecology of diagnosis.

Cutting across diverse thematic interests and modes of investigation, the thirty-five essays in Realism Materialism Art (RMA) offer a snapshot of the emerging and rapidly changing set of ideas and practices proposed by contemporary realisms and materialisms, and examine their ramifications on the arts.

A pioneering study in which professor of media theory Dieter Mersch paves the way for a methodology of aesthetics that would move beyond the “linguistic turn” to create a new scientific discourse that would create a better conceptual understanding of art-based research.

Performing the Sentence brings into dialogue the ways that “performative thinking” has developed in different national and institutional contexts, within different disciplines in the arts, and the conditions under which it has developed in experimental art schools.

Speculative Drawing presents fifteen books—from monographs and translations to collections of essays—that emerged from the research platform Speculative Poetics, conceived by Armen Avanessian in 2011.

A series of 365 cartoon drawings, made daily in 2012, exploring philosophical thoughts concerning art, being, knowledge, logic and skateboarding.

Issue devoted to the phalanstery and its (few) representations: a rigorous as well as singular contribution on the traditional ambiguities passing through the relationship between utopia and its image.

Theory, Spectacle and Film in the thought of Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem.

A selection of conversations between Markus Miessen and political philosopher Chantal Mouffe.

A previously unpublished text by Gilles Deleuze on Francis Bacon, with a set of contemporary readings of his Deleuze's writings on art, by philosophers and theoreticians of the various disciplines addressed (literature, cinema, music, art history...).

The previously unpublished transcript of a lecture by Jacques Derrida around the figure of the blind and blindness in art.

The Dingdingdong Manifesto / Institute for the coproduction of knowledge about Huntington's Disease.

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

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

A collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.

Walter Benjamin reader of Charles Fourier.

The artist book by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber is based on an unpublished text by French philosopher and urbanist Henri Lefebvre which is printed as a facsimile and accompanied by essays from Ljiljana Blagojevic, Zoran Eric, Klaus Ronnberger, and Neil Smith.

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

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).

An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.

A minimalist interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (artist's book).

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

The Heideggerien deconstruction of metaphysics by Reiner Schürmann.

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

An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.

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.