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Les presses du réel – editions
 
Ornella Volta - Erik Satie en notes et en mots
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.
L\'Encyclopédie des Objets Impossibles
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
A vast research project to explore the connections and mutual enrichment between cinema and design, both considered as reservoirs of fiction: an illustrated inventory of impossible and unthinkable objects, with some thirty contributions by design researchers and designers.
Siegfried Kracauer - Culte de la distraction - Miniatures urbaines et critiques de films (1925-1933)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
The Feedback Game
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
A card game designed by Chloé Déchery and Marion Boudier, in collaboration with illustrator Éric Valette, to contribute to the development of a “culture of return” in artistic creation, distribution and teaching.
Vilém Flusser - Arts, sciences, technologies - Défis à la recherche-création
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).
Florence Pazzottu - Frères numains - Discours aux classes intermédiaires
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A both poetic and political text which supports the French social movement that began on 31 March 2016.
Maurice Fréchuret - Aveuglements - Les artistes et la cécité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of the representation of blindness in art, from Brueghel to Louise Bourgeois.
Makis Solomos - Pour une écologie de la musique et du son - Le vivant, le mental et le social dans la musique, les arts sonores et les artivismes d\'aujourd\'hui
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.
Bernhard Siegert - Techniques culturelles - Grilles, filtres, portes et autres articulations du réel
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.
Eyal Weizman - L\'art de la contre-enquête - Esthétiques de l\'investigation – Politiques de vérité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.
Siegfried Kracauer - Culte de la distraction - Miniatures urbaines et critiques de films (1925-1933)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
L\'Écologie des choses - Regards sur les artistes japonais et leurs environnements de 1970 à nos jours
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A new reading of the links between artistic practices that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s, against a backdrop of reconstruction and massive industrialization, and those of contemporary artists addressing current environmental issues.
Emmanuelle Pireyre - La performance narrative - Art, Littérature, Scène
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Figures
A panoramic, cross-border exploration of performative practices in literature, art, dance, theater and more.
Marine Schütz - Handmade readymade - Dessin et illustration dans le Pop art américain et britannique (1950-1975)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An original history of Pop Art from the point of view of drawing, resituating the leading role played by this medium in the development of closer links between art and life.
Yves Sarfati - De l\'inconscient à l\'abstraction - Le cas Hartung
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
What meaning can be given to abstract art forms when the figurative is evacuated in favor of pure gesture and color? This book investigates the case of Hans Hartung, delving into the depths of his psyche—at the frontier between aesthetics, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and medicine.
Jolanthe Kugler - The Kitchen - Where function meets pleasure
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
currently out of stock
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Jolanthe Kugler - The Bathroom - From hygiene to wellness
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
currently out of stock
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Jolanthe Kugler - La cuisine - Entre fonctionnalité et plaisir
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Jolanthe Kugler - La salle de bains - De l\'hygiène au bien-être
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Mélanie Roustan - L\'animal captif et la nature sauvage - Une ethnographie du Parc zoologique de Paris
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
An ethnographic approach to the zoo, revealing the tensions and contradictions of a cultural institution that inherited nature from the colonial exhibitions and has now entered the paradigm of biodiversity conservation.
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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.
Zaven Paré - Le spectacle anthropomorphique - Entre les singes et les robots
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.
Anders Fjeld - Pratiques d\'expérimentation - Cartographier les possibles avec Jacques Rancière
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.
Matthieu Renault - Maîtres et esclaves - Archives du Laboratoire d\'analyse des Mythologiques de la modernité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.
Philippe Roy - Appuis - Essai sur la liberté
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
An conceptual attempt to think differently about freedom in its acts.
Aline Wiame - Revenir d\'entre les morts - Deleuze et la croyance en ce monde au cinéma et dans les séries
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
Brian Massumi - Ontopouvoir - Guerre, pouvoir, perception
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.
Sébastien Miravete - Bergson structuraliste - L\'aube d\'une autre anthropologie structurale et cognitive
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.
Frank Malina - Light Art and Scientific Abstraction
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first comprehensive book on the art of Frank Malina (1912-1981), the American rocket scientist turned Paris-based artist, one of the fathers of light art.
Uno Kuniichi - Artaud pensée et corps
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.
Matali Crasset - Les terreblements / La communauté des cratères - Fantaisie
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A book of fiction that brings together two environmentalist literary “fantasies” by Matali Crasset, with line drawings.
Roberto Barbanti - Les sonorités du monde - De l\'écologie sonore à l\'écosophie sonore
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.
Alexandre Chèvremont - Donner lieu au son
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.
Tomás Maldonado - Vers une écologie critique
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A major milestone in the history of design, this pioneering work by Tomás Maldonado, published in 1970, lays the foundations for a critical and committed reflection, open to an ecological perspective, against the drifts of utopian regressions or exacerbated productivism.
David Bihanic - Du gouvernement des formes
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
On the relationship between architecture and design.
Roberto Altmann - L\'œuvre gravé (1959-2012)
2025
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
The first major catalogue on one of the most important Lettrist artists.
Marc Décimo - De quelques vies ou ce qu\'il en reste - Art populaire & Art Brut – Jardins pittoresques, rocailles, curiosités de créateurs en tout genre
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
An archeological inventory of the bizarre beauty of art brut, popular gardens and improbable architecture, palaces and tree castles, chapels and converted caves, concrete and matchstick models, rustic furniture and animal sculptures, caravans and flying bicycles, calvaries... and the last homes of creators of all kinds (mental patients, abbots, bistro owners or self-proclaimed artists), most of which now only exist on postcards from the period, around 1900.
Marion Laval-Jeantet - Microbiota - Créer et soigner
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.
Le travail de l\'acteur·rice - Opérations, protocoles, exercices pour le jeu
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A multidisciplinary analysis, based on a historical perspective of theater pedagogies and an eminently contemporary approach to actor training.
Lionel Marchetti - En cheminant avec La Noire à soixante, une composition de musique concrète de Pierre Henry
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Lionel Marchetti offers a highly personal, artist-to-artist reading of one of Pierre Henry's landmark works, through which he attempts to grasp all the poetic issues at stake in the art of musique concrète, and to identify the specificities of the genre.
Jonathan Crary - L\'écorchement du monde - Pour en finir avec l\'ère numérique : vers un monde post-capitaliste
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.
Anders Fjeld - Pratiques d\'expérimentation - Cartographier les possibles avec Jacques Rancière
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.
Michel Guet - Ne rien faire, mais quoi ? - Suivi de Le coup est parti
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Malaise dans la décolonisation - Terres éparses et îles noires
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
An essay that intellectually deepens the historically traced furrows of colonial aberrations, crossing political science, philosophy, anthropology and psychoanalysis.
Alexandra Midal - Do You Speak Flower?
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
At the crossroads of design, art, architecture and popular culture, Alexandra Midal investigates the techniques developed by artists, designers and revolutionaries to conceal information and messages, through the lens of the coded language of flowers.
Vivian Sobchack - Le corps du film - Une phénoménologie de l\'expérience filmique
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Translated into French for the first time, Vivian Sobchack's Le corps du film – Une phénoménologie de l'expérience filmique offers a new perspective to the phenomenological tradition through an interrogation of our cinematographic experience and, more generally, of our relationship to screens.
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