An insect theory of media to understand our media devices and our technological modernity.

The first monograph devoted to the entire multidisciplinary and unclassifiable body of work of French poet, writer, musician, and director F.J. Ossang, spanning more than half a century.

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 (new edition).

The first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Eduardo Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba.

An exploration of the encounter, in the early 1960s, between the controversial—yet now world-renowned—writer Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) and Tatsumi Hijikata's (1928–1986) Dance of Darkness (Ankoku butō). This paradoxical connection remains little known and is rarely mentioned in the chronologies and biographies of this turbulent man of letters.

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).

Globalized popular culture as a starting point for a new way of thinking about art and visual culture.

Through an analysis of the social and cultural history of the imperative of "creativity" that now shapes our lives, Andreas Reckwitz examines the paradoxical promises of aesthetic capitalism.

An essay on the figure of the writer-

A comprehensive study of the impact of the life sciences—primarily botany—and their expansion in the 19th century on the thought and work of Gustave Moreau.

A groundbreaking study of the broader impact of the various theories of colour psychology on visual cultures at the turn of the 20th century.

A chronicle of the punk wave in France in the late 1970s, as seen and experienced from the inside, weaving together the memories of Miss OD, the muse of the emerging Parisian punk scene, and FanXoa, at the dawn of the formation of Béruriers / Bérurier Noir, like flashes of a remarkable, dangerous, and out-of-control era that undoubtedly still has something to say about our present day.

Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way.

An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.

Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way.

An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.

New edition.

A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.

A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create an other pedagogical turning point.

The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.

A fascinating journey through the long history of media before the age of mass media.

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

A powerful and highly original psychoanalytical, philosophical, and political exploration of the dimensions of sensitivity, the unconscious, and psychedelia in the context of an experience based on medicinal plants (peyote, mushrooms, and ayahuasca) and psychotropic drugs, in the wake of Félix Guattari's thinking.

A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.

A visual history of the Folly Cove Designers (1941-1969)—one of America's longest-running block printing collectives.

Edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz, this volume brings together for the first time in French some fifty texts written by Ettore Sottsass between 1945 and 2001—essays, columns, and literary narratives—that reveal a constantly evolving philosophy of design.

A card game designed by Matthieu Raffard and Mathilde Roussel to play, think, and create together, designed to help artists and researchers break through barriers in their research and creative work!

An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.

Jonathan Crary decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.

The French translation of a seminal work considered to have sparked the "affective turn" in philosophy and cultural theory.

Julien Blaine's poetic bestiaries.

This collection of texts on design by the avant-garde Italian architectural group Superstudio (1966-1982) highlights one of the most powerful and complex moments in the period of Italian architectural neo-avant-garde, revealing a progressive and increasingly radical reflection on the meaning of design, on architecture and design as forms of thought, and finally on life itself as a project.

A collective reflection on the tensions and shifts taking place in design, in light of contemporary and future challenges, combining forward-looking visions with concrete experiments, and bringing together theoretical approaches, manifestos, and analyses of design practices, from a critical perspective that responds to the environmental, social, cultural, technological, and political transformations of our time.

The first catalogue raisonné of a Lettrist artist: a comprehensive collection of the 464 works (paintings, objects, multiples, works on paper) produced by Maggy Mauritz (born in 1941)—a pioneering artist in graffiti art and Lettrism—over more than six decades, featuring approximately 600 color illustrations.

A collection of essays on audio archives of poetry.

A 33-year journey through the Venice Biennale (1993–2026).

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.

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 (also available in English edition).

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

A genealogy of the modern artist.

The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

The choreographic in cinema.