French Theory

20 proposals for the intersection of artistic practice and research in academic milieu.

A book of interviews with Sylvère Lotringer.

A dialogue between the philosopher and the art historian around the encounter.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Bernard Stiegler talk about what links them to philosophy.

Sylvère Lotringer traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.

Sylvère Lotringer traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.

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.

Two thinkers of different generations discuss the question of sexuality and philosophy.

The pleonectic comes from a neologism that means: have-more. The challenge of this major book by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is to identify the ontological principle from which to question the afflictions in which our world is struggling.

Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein analyze the significance and logic of Lyotard's “Les Immatériaux” exhibition while contextualizing it in the history of exhibition practices, the philosophical tradition, and Lyotard's own work on aesthetics and phenomenology.

The letters of Maurice Blanchot to François Dominique, which illuminate one of the last editorial projects of Blanchot; “Maurice Blanchot, writing and power”; an unpublished letter from Blanchot on the Cuban Revolution; the 68 years of Blanchot...

This collection assembles key essays of Reiner Schürmann centering on the concepts of anarchy and the singularization to come. Setting out from the question of the status of practical philosophy at the end of metaphysics, these texts track the crucial role of Schürmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991.

For its twelfth issue, Initiales pays tribute to Sylvère Lotringer who, in the 1970s, imported the French Theory in the United States.

20 proposals for the intersection of artistic practice and research in academic milieu.

The encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement.

Special feature “Blanchot and the narrative”; a study on Blanchot and photography; Jean-Luc Nancy; Philippe Jaccottet; a poem by the late Michel Butor…

Conceptual art in the United States (1965-1975): theoretical tools and European influence.

The aesthetics of Gilles Deleuze.

9th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Pierre Klossowski.

An “anti-history” of the indecision in which Joseph Vogl probes the literary figures of Oreste, Wallenstein, Joseph K., Bartleby, or the man without qualities.

The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.

The complete PDF edition of the avant-garde journal Change, created by Jean Pierre Faye in 1968: 42 facsimile issues in a 8482-page file with free-text search engine.

A collection of previously unpublished texts by the French philosopher.

A theoretical, literary and critical dossier dedicated to the relationship between Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille; Jean-Luc Nancy's La Communauté désavouée, around the notion of community in Blanchot's oeuvre.

A theoretical, literary and critical dossier dedicated to the relationship between Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille; Jean-Luc Nancy's La Communauté désavouée, around the notion of community in Blanchot's oeuvre.

A re-appropriation of Edward Said's Orientalism by Joe Scanlan.

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy readers of Maurice Blanchot, Blanchot's political trajectory, Emmanuel Levinas' unpublished letter to Maurice Blanchot...

The posthumous collection of texts on art by the French philosopher.

Soun-Gui Kim engages her collaborators—philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, and John Cage—in conversation about contemporary art and the relationship of artists to the globalized art world and market, from the perspective of Eastern thought.

An unpublished manuscript written in 1978, transcribed in accordance with the specific pagination of the original, with a typesetting system developed specifically to reproduce the dynamics of Jean-Luc Nancy's writing.

A tribute to Monique Antelme (Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Nadeau; testimonials...); Blanchot and the Jewish issues (Danielle Cohen-Levinas with Jean-Luc Nancy, Edmond Jabès, David Banon, Michael Holland, Ginette Michaud, Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot); studies (Christophe Bident on Blanchot and Leiris, Pascal Gibourg, Francesco Vitale on Derrida); reading notes.

The two philosophers share a dialogue on the representation of thought.

Collection of interviews with author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge and philosopher and professor of literature Joseph Vogl, specially produced by Kluge for German television.

The first in-depth study of the reception of “French Theory” by American artists since the early 1960's.

In the context of a pervasive and long-standing financial crisis, Joseph Vogl questions the capitalist system, its secrets, its modus operandi, and the way it perpetuates itself. One of the most noteworthy books on the economic crisis in Europe.

An analysis of the contemporary crisis of the concept of community, rethought in a philosophical but also poetical perspective, from the work of Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, René Char, and Henri Michaux.

French edition of a study which not only offers new interpretations of Rauschenberg's work, but also deepens our understanding of the entire neo-avant-garde project.

Rancière and aesthetics (anthology).

Two both aesthetic and political engaged considerations on the relationship between the West and the Middle East (or more generally between the West and its others), from the figures of exile and the two cultures: three unpublished interviews of Edward W. Said / a deconstruction of a common European view on the Arab world by Seloua Luste Boulbina.

Derrida's postcards to Blanchot, essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, Didier Cahen, Kevin Hart, Michel Deguy, lectures at the Collège International de Philosophie (Gisèle Berkman, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland), studies (Jérémie Majorel, Daniel Dobbels, Yuji Nishiyama), reading notes...

An anthology of reference texts published in the German magazine "Texte Zur Kunst" between 1990 and 1998.

A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

A conversation between the architect and the philosopher.

A philosophical essay reflecting on ethics and poetics through the thought of Gilles Deleuze.

An essay on Gary Hill's video work, taking Maurice Blanchot's writing as a starting point, between literature, philosophy, aesthics and psychoanalysis.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

This essay considers Deleuze's film theory on both an epistemological and historical angle and brings forward recent studies on cinema's aesthetics and philosophy.