Literature

A both poetic and political text which supports the French social movement that began on 31 March 2016.

Artaud's last unpublished work.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia: the sixth issue of Jacques Donguy, Sarah Cassenti and Jean-François Bory's avant-garde artistic and literary journal, with Frédéric Acquaviva, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Boisnard, Bernard Bousquet, Augusto De Campos, Hélène Defilippi, Cassandra Felgueiras, Pascal Le Gallois, Raoul Hausmann, Eduardo Kac, Thomas Laroppe, Alvin Lucier, Made In Eric, Richard Meier, Simone Osthoff, Nam June Paik, Céline Paul, Diamantino Quintas, Biño Sauitzvy, Raoul Vaneigem.

Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.

The social, historical and cultural dimensions of the skin in Brazilian art and literature.

JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.

Multivocal and anonymous, A Strange Adventure is oral-history-as-theater—the theater of memory, trauma, and torture.

Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.

Itinéraires Fantômes is an oracle deck created by Alexandra Grant with Hélène Cixous in celebration of H. Cixous' work.

The first collection of texts published in French by the Argentinian artist and poet.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

An exchange (half-real, half-fictional) with Action Directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan, portrayed as an art lover who, for the French state, represents the absolute political enemy.

A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.

The notion of primitivism rethought to highlight the role of the African referent in the development of the artistic and literary avant-garde in Europe.

In this tête-bêche book, Amandine André's Impossessions primitives, a text identifiable as poetic, meets philosopher Frédéric Neyrat's L'Anti-Terre, singularly opening up the field of possibilities and thought.

Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.

This book takes the domestic dog as an affective standard, a practical horizon and an index of a moral economy specific to the capitalocene.

Inducing daydreams, walking under hypnosis, thwarting curfews.

Reissue of Charles Pennequin's first book, a lengthy text in which the author's writing is characterized by obsessive repetition, a breathless rhythm, a combination of introspective movement and prosaic elements, and a staging of proferation.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.

A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).

A new poem composed by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti.

New edition of Steve Cannon's riotous 1969/71 erotic novel Groove, Bang and Jive Around, "an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transmogrified the work into urban myth," with a foreword from Darius James and an afterword by poet Tracie Morris.

Monologues and "quasi-monologues" in which the characters talk indiscriminately about pollution, Pokémon, bonzes and alien octopuses.

The fifth volume of the bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's fictional auto-biographical writings based on his one-year stay in Istanbul in 1921.

The first French translation of the texts of the Japanese artist and writer Akasegawa Genpei (Katsuhiko Akasegawa, aka Otsuji Katsuhiko, 1937-2014), a figure of the Tokyo avant-garde of the 1960s, on the concept of Tomason, with a rich iconography.

Issue dedicated to the work of writer, poet, performer and musician Mathias Richard.

Artists in exile; Algiers, capital of politicized soccer; on the human trafficking route in Sierra Leone; the theft of Russian novels from European libraries; interviews with post-punk band Fat White Family and director Sean Price Williams; ecofeminist philosopher Émilie Hache on possible "matriarchies"; Kim Noble; Taysir Batniji; Wonwoo Kim...

Gérard Berréby looks back at the first publishing experience of the man who was to become the director of Allia publishing house: the decision, in the early 1980s, to produce a pirate edition of Aragon's book—at the time opposed to any reprinting—, an unprecedented gesture that provoked numerous reactions in the literary world, and raised a number of questions linked to appropriation and self-publishing.

Script is the second book of artist J.J. Zana and a continuation of the series started with Cycles. Composed of fragments, it gathers eleven sections—with a central part telling about his experiments with drugs.

An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.

New visualities and visualizations of literature in the digital age: the possible contributions of design thinking to literary theory.

The transdisciplinary journal continues its return around the theme of the chanson.

Le meilleur système is a hybrid and meta text. At once a poetic collection and a critical reader, nourished by references to genre literature, it explores the narrator's dissociative affects and her experience of racial passing.

A new literary work by Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, Mauvaises herbes is an alphabetical list of undesirable plants, a poetic lexicon of Quebec flora, where composite and colorful terms accumulate in an incessant enumeration.

A collective work to highlight the unique perspective of Pierre Guyotat, one of the greatest authors of the French language and a major figure in the memory of the Algerian conflict, on the war of independence and post-independence Algeria.

Writer Yoann Thommerel seizes on the rating codes to which we are now subjected for the smallest of our daily gestures to hijack them, deconstruct them and make them the basis of resolutely digressive culinary commentaries, between a diary oriented towards gastronomy and the uninhibited reinvention of a Gault & Millau guide stripped of its prescriptive logic.

An adventure book, written and drawn, by Luca Merlini that takes us closer to the creative process of the architect and the parallel that can be drawn with literature, highlighting the question of the book and its intimate relationship to architecture.

Rachel Valinsky invites seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Davide Balula, Eva Barto, Julie Béna, Jesse Chun, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Gordon Hall, and Alan Reid) to share their views of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a major figure in the conceptual and performance art movements.

A collection of 16 poetic texts primarily written for orality.

A book of poetic texts by the performance artist, choreographer, musician and writer.

The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.

An in-depth historical study of the artistic and political project of the Situationist International (1952-1972).

Reference monograph of the most renowned Japanese artist-poet of the 20th century in Europe and the United States, active since the 1920s, a figure of visual poetry, linked to all the European and American literary and artistic avant-gardes, with numerous illustrations.

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.

Written with a sensitive ear to the present, Matinées sans police reveals a relationship with the world in which the intimate and the extimate assert themselves in all their political dimensions.