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Elena Vogman - La danse des valeurs - Sergueï Eisenstein et le Capital de Marx
2024
French edition
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forthcoming
Researcher Elena Vogman examines the unpublished archival material relating to the film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital by Sergei Eisenstein. The analysis of these materials reveals the clear and ambitious idea that animated the Soviet filmmaker for this aborted project: to build a visual theorization of value.
Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira - Invented Skins - Epidermal Readings in Brazilian Art and Literature
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The social, historical and cultural dimensions of the skin in Brazilian art and literature.
Liliana Gómez - Archive Matter - A Camera in the Laboratory of the Modern
2023
English edition
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A journey through the United Fruit Company's photo archive and its documentation of corporate expansion into the Caribbean.
Nicolas Evreïnoff - The Steps of Nemesis - A Dramatic Chronicle in Six Scenes from Party Life in the USSR (1936–1938)
2022
English edition
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The theatricalization of the Soviet Union through the reenactment as theater of the Stalinist show trials by the playwright Nikolai Evreinov (1879-1953).
Performing Human Rights - Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
2021
English edition
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Aesthetic practices and human rights in the global south.
Brian Alkire - The Last Mask - Hamann\'s Theater of the Grotesque
2021
English edition
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A philological and theoretical rereading of the late work of Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788).
Davide Giuriato - Infinitely Determinable - Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
2021
English edition
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Children and childhood in modern literature.
Architectures of Embodiment - Disclosing New Intelligibilities
2020
English edition
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How does architecturecondition the emergence of sense?
Jörg Wiesel - Manifesto of Artistic Research
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
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A manifesto for artistic research and in defense of its autonomy.
Aesthetic Theory
2019
English edition
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There is no theory that is not aesthetic (collective publication edited by Dieter Mersch, Sylvia Sasse and Sandro Zanetti).
Dorota Sajewska - Necroperformance - Cultural Reconstructions of the War Body
2019
English edition
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Dorata Sajewska proposes an innovative perspective for looking back at the formative process of Polish modernity, delving into repressed areas of experience connected with World War I and the ensuing emancipatory movements.
Elena Vogman - Dance of Values - Sergei Eisenstein\'s Capital Project
2019
English edition
Diaphanes
Researcher Elena Vogman examines the unpublished archival material relating to the film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital by Sergei Eisenstein. The analysis of these materials reveals the clear and ambitious idea that animated the Soviet filmmaker for this aborted project: to build a visual theorization of value.
Emmanuel Levinas - On Obliteration
2019
English edition
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One of Levinas' rare statements focusing on the fine arts.
Nikolai Evreinov - The Storming of the Winter Palace
2017
English edition
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A collective study on the theatrical reenactment of the storming of the Winter Palace by Soviet dramatist Nikolai Evreinov, on the occasion of the October Revolution's third anniversary. This staging of the beginning of the revolution, performed by 10.000 people, is documented thanks to an ensemble of texts, photographs, and drawings.
Tom McCarthy - Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer
2016
English edition
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British novelist Tom McCarthy questions the specific obsession with time in modern and contemporary literature, examining the works of Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, Maurice Blanchot, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and William Faulkner. The essay is followed by a conversation with the author in which he discusses his own practice of writing.
Georges Didi-Huberman - The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
2015
English edition
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Renowned French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman conducts a careful analysis of Cube—Giacometti's only abstract sculptural work.
Artur Żmijewski - How to Teach Art?
2022
English edition
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sold out
How to teach art / can we become an artist?
Natura - Environmental Aesthetics After Landscape
2018
English edition
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sold out
Interdisciplinary study gathering critical essays and visual contributions attempting to rethink environmental aesthetics beyond the idea of landscape.
Dieter Mersch - Epistemologies of Aesthetics
2015
English edition
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sold out
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.
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