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Anders Fjeld - Pratiques d\'expérimentation - Cartographier les possibles avec Jacques Rancière
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
forthcoming
Maurice Fréchuret - Aveuglements - Les artistes et la cécité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Alex Coles - Fusion! - From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno.
Staci Bu Shea - Solution 305 - Dying Livingly
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
forthcoming
A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic, critical, and poetic experience of living life led by death.
Rosi Braidotti - Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
forthcoming
On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.
Ana Teixeira Pinto - Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical
forthcoming
How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.
Sonia de Puineuf - Télégraphes de l\'Utopie - L\'art des avant-gardes en Europe Centrale 1918-1939
2025
French edition
Empire - Books
forthcoming
A wide-ranging discursive study of the cultural geography of the Central European avant-garde between the wars.
Ludovic Burel - Le laboratoire de fermentation
2025
French edition
it: editions
forthcoming
The first documentary account by artist, curator and publisher Ludovic Burel, Le laboratoire de fermentation (The fermentation laboratory) retraces four years of investigation, carried out on several continents, into wild and cultivated plants and the means of fermenting them, questioning our relationship to both the human (individual and society) and the non-human (plant and other).
Louis Ucciani - Essais d\'esthétiques new-yorkaises
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
forthcoming
A philosopher's journey into the heart of New York artistic life.
Bernhard Siegert - Techniques culturelles - Grilles, filtres, portes et autres articulations du réel
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
forthcoming
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
forthcoming
Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.
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
forthcoming
A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.
Horst Bredekamp - La psychanalyse figurative de Sigmund Freud - Le Moïse de Michel-Ange et la collection d\'idoles
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
forthcoming
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
forthcoming
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”.
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
forthcoming
An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.
Josephine Berry - Planetary Realism - Art Against Apocalypse
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of "planetarity" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.
Yoann Sarrat - FREEING (Our Bodies) - Jean-François Bory, Kathy Acker ou l\'invention de « textemondes »
2024
French edition
FREEING (Our Bodies)
forthcoming
An essay by Yoann Sarrat on two works by Jean-François Bory and Kathy Acker.
Ines Weizman - Avant et après - L\'architecture du désastre
2024
French edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Eyal and Ines Weizman explore the history of the before-and-after image, from its origins in 19th-century Paris to today's satellite surveillance.
Thierry de Duve - Come On, Men, One More Effort… - Anthropogenesis, Christianity, Sexuation
2024
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
forthcoming
In this essay, Thierry de Duve leaves the aesthetics and history of the art to approach, under the religious prism, two anthropological questions that the mutation of the symbolic order in progress makes pressing: the difference of the sexes and the future of the politics of emancipation.
Reiner Schürmann - Heidegger\'s De(con)struction of Metaphysics
2024
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
forthcoming
The Heideggerien deconstruction of metaphysics by Reiner Schürmann.
Reiner Schürmann - The Place of the Symbolic - Essays on Art and Politics
2024
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
forthcoming
The Place of the Symbolic brings together Reiner Schürmann's essays on the nexus between art and politics.
Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira - Invented Skins - Epidermal Readings in Brazilian Art and Literature
2024
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
forthcoming
The social, historical and cultural dimensions of the skin in Brazilian art and literature.
Peter N. Miller - The Weather on 9/9/01
2024
English edition
MER. B&L
forthcoming
An essay on historical thinking through an examination of the unstudied minor genre of the newspaper weather map.
Philip K. Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn\'t Fall Apart Two Days Later
2024
English edition
ISOLARII
forthcoming
In this prophetic 1978 essay, legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick explores the nature of reality, the power of media, and the authenticity of human experience, offering startling insights that resonate eerily with our modern world.
Emmanuel Alloa - Le contemporain, l\'intempestif et l\'imminent - Petits arrangements avec une époque
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.
Marion Laval-Jeantet - Microbiota - Créer et soigner
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
forthcoming
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.
Uno Kuniichi - Artaud pensée et corps
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
forthcoming
Lionel Marchetti - En cheminant avec La Noire à soixante, une composition de musique concrète de Pierre Henry
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
David Bihanic - Du gouvernement des formes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
forthcoming
On the relationship between architecture and design.
Spencer Gerhardt - Ticking Stripe
2024
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
A new collection of writings by the composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt, considering among other topics the rich points of contact between minimalist musical aesthetics and intuitionistic mathematics.
Olivier Berggruen - Formes du désir - Une brève histoire de la collection d\'art
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.
Alexandre Chèvremont - Donner lieu au son
2024
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.
Richard Sennett - Democracy and Urban Form
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? In 1981, Richard Sennett delivered six lectures about this relationship, and issued a call to action that remains relevant today.
Kim West - The Contemporary Condition - The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary – Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
An essay-length book arguing for the autonomy of art in the present.
Eckardt Lindner - Inorganic Life - On Post-Vitalism
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
A theory of passive vitalism.
Jean-Christophe Thomas - Diabolus in Musica - 2008-2024
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features (book augmented with 151 sound examples to download).
Bernhard Rüdiger - Horizon of Forms - The Living Languages of Contemporary Art
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
This book brings together Bernhard Rüdiger's theoretical texts on the questions of language and form in contemporary art, seen from the perspective of the possibility of thinking them within the paradigm of shock or awe.
Morgan Labar - La gloire de la bêtise - Régression et superficialités dans les arts depuis la fin des années 1980
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.
Jehanne Denogent - Palimpsestes africains - Primitivisme littéraire et avant-gardes (Paris, 1901-1924)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Œuvres en sociétés
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.
Griselda Pollock - Maîtresses d\'autrefois - Femmes, art et idéologie
2024
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
Parker and Pollock's seminal volume of feminist art history.
Valentina Tanni - Exit Reality - Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold
2024
English edition
Nero
The first attempt to map that ensemble of subcultures, popular narratives, and visual and auditory languages we now recognize as "internet aesthetics".
Enora Rivière - Moteurs - Un sacre
2024
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Notebooks (ebooks)
A stunning look at Stravinski's The Rite of Spring, recreated by choreographer Dominique Brun with thirty dancers in 2013.
Aruna D\'Souza - Imperfect Solidarities
2024
English edition
Floating Opera Press
currently out of stock
Art, empathy and political solidarity.
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