Essay

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

Karenna Gore posits a future for the design practices that works within the living and intelligent design of Earth.

The Photograph Looked Back at Me is a series of prose miniatures, each born from an image the author cannot turn away from: a ghostly plant printed in a book about Chernobyl; a miner's face obscured by smoke, hanging in a Kyiv gallery; a picture of Katja Petrowskaja's parents, from an old family album.

A series of reflections on research and fieldwork that situate the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.

Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts.

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.

The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.

Sylvia Sasse explores and analyzes subversive affirmation as a critical practice in different political systems.

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.

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

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

An analysis of the processes by which certain seemingly innocuous popular forms of modernity are used to serve fascism, through the example of synchronized dancing, which was imbued with the symbolism of Nazi domination.

The edition offers a new approach to what Ines Weizman names "documentary architecture," meaning that to write about the history of a building is also to map the world in which it is located.

Research-based art has become one of the defining genres of the century. Taking the collective Forensic Architecture as a case study, Emily Watlington, senior editor at Art in America, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.

Poetry and Revolution brings together three previously untranslated essays by the Czechoslovak avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951), accompanied by a polemical introduction by Peter Zusi placing Teige's thinking in the context of debates on "Western" and "Eastern" Marxism.

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.

An essay on the figure of the writer-

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

A deeply heartfelt and courageous reflection on the challenges and urgencies of listening to oneself.

J. Logan Smilges's essay "Bad Listeners" argues that traditional ideas about "good listening" in feminist and rhetorical theory can exclude neurodivergent and disabled people. Smilges challenges the assumption that ethical, caring, or politically responsible people should always be able and willing to listen. This leads to an important reframing of "bad listening" as an issue of access.

A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.

A reflection on the autonomy and eternity of art by Canadian writer Madeleine Thien, based on a mural in the Thousand Buddha Grottoes of Bezeklik, China.

The Tenant is a monographic critical essay by Marie Canet. It is the first text to directly address the connections between McKenzie's work, pornography, and special effects.

The Tenant is a monographic critical essay by Marie Canet. It is the first text to directly address the connections between McKenzie's work, pornography, and special effects.

An intimate journey through the Lettrist movement via the collection and library of Hans Naumann (born in 1933 in Germany), one of Maurice Lemaître's most trusted collectors and one of the most important Lettrist bibliophiles, who has assembled a vast collection of rare or unique works and books related to this avant-garde movement founded in 1946 by Isidore Isou and still largely overlooked.

A reflection on the power of writing, based on the work of the Swedish artist and writer Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976).

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 genealogy of the modern artist.

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

On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics.

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

Alexis Nouss's manual on cultural resistance in seven lessons.

An essay by Alexandra Midal on visual learning experiences through images, based on two revolutionary projects by major 20th-century designers: Charles & Ray Eames, Georges Nelson and Alexander Girard, and Ken Isaacs.

An intellectual portrait of a major figure in 20th-century architecture.

Three essays in which philosopher Étienne Balibar questions the notion of war through the thinking of Simone Weil, Carl von Clausewitz, and Karl Marx, as well as the current geopolitical situation and the war in Ukraine.

The choreographic in cinema.

Emma Merabet explores non-anthropocentric forms of performance, in which humans are no longer the focus of attention, and in which non-human elements (materials, objects, animals, machines, natural phenomena, etc.) become fully-fledged presences and agents.

A highly personal reflection on the practice, teaching, and very essence of architecture and design.

Exploring the contemporary art scene in Cambodia, Soko Phay examines modes of representing extremes and shows how memorial works prompt reflection on the profound scars left by the Cambodian genocide on society.