Essay

A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.

A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic, critical, and poetic experience of living life led by death.

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.

In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist's theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.

An essay on the new challenges facing exhibition curators.

The first English language translation of Robert Linhart's The Sugar and the Hunger, originally published in 1980. Includes afterword by Luiz Renato Martins, and other materials.

A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.

The current ecological crisis brings about a new relational landscape: an unprecedented collapse of distances creates interspecies promiscuities and a crisis of the human scale. In Inclusions, Nicolas Bourriaud proposes that artists are the anthropologists of this new era.

Image and contemporary art in the post-digital age.

An investigation into the current social architectures that determine the perception of the notion of "evil"... and the production of figures that embody it.

A how-to manual for free improvisation music.

A new approach to psychological suffering, integrating non-Western knowledge with that of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, in order to rethink the cultural and linguistic heritages and crossings that constitute a plural universal.

The first publication of a lost 1978 text by Peter Gidal—one of the most influential experimental filmmakers ever.

The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.

The first English translation of Jacques Rancière's early philosophical text "The Dialectic of Reason and Private Interest", originally published in 1963. Written under the influence of Louis Althusser, the text is discussing the forms of law in Karl Marx's writings on the "debates on the law on thefts of wood".

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?

Collection of recent essays and poems in which the American poet and critic examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, architecture's relationship to language, and feminist economies of writing, reading, and art making.

Queer theory as a critical tool against the very idea of identity in art.

The aesthetic and functions of the mirror in contemporary art.

A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.

An original reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work and “impulses”, between aesthetic and psychoanalytic reflection.

First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”

An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).

A comparative history of the ruins from the ancient East to the modern West.

Jean Epstein's complete writings.

A collection of essays in which Chantal Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in today's world and their relation to the development of art practices.

An analysis of the experience of spatiality in dance, through five works by Xavier Le Roy, Yvonne Rainer, Olga Mesa, Boris Charmatz, and Merce Cunningham.

A study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of installation art.

A text by Christof Migone on a history of sound art and its relation to performance.

Five essays.

The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.

The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”

Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980 ("A protest aimed at the libertarians of the present and the future, about the surrenders of 1980") was published in 1981. It was only signed with the word Incontrôlé ("Uncontrolled"), didn't bear the name of any publisher, and was printed on stolen paper.

The Nightmare of Participation calls for a format of conflictual participation—no longer a process by which others are invited “in,” but a means of acting without mandate, as uninvited irritant: a forced entry into fields of knowledge that arguably benefit from exterior thinking.

A collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.

An in depth analysis of one of the most inventive (but also the most misunderstood) post-war avant-garde movements.

The societal efficacy of art.

Criminal news item as current version of the ready-made: relations between the history of avant-gardes and the aesthetics of murder.

Towards the art world's inner contradictions between symbolic meaning and monetary value.

Accompanied with Fluxus pamphlets, manifestoes and newspapers of the artist, the unpublished manuscript of the mother of the founder of the avant-garde movement constitutes an invaluable entry to the private world of Maciunas, and the occasion of a revaluation of its artistic and strategic choices.

An analysis of some major contemporary works that challenge the traditional values of art.

An essay on the concept of utopia today, more relevant than ever at the time of the economic, social, ecological and intellectual crisis.

A history of television that's both technical and sensitive: between personal memories and a chronology of advances and innovations, Alain Bourges plunges us into the world of television in his own way.

As a Weasel Sucks Eggs examines the enigmatic relation of melancholia to an early kind of cannibalism, which psychoanalysis, in particular, stressed. It contains readings of, amongst others, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Sigmund Freud, G. W. F. Hegel, and the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf.

A study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (with a special project by Olafur Eliasson).

Drawing on fresh readings of Marxist and post-modern thought, renowned German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen compares the abstract and climbing values of artworks with the plunging value of music—a traditionally immaterial art—in order to formulate a broad reflection on the current “crisis of value in the arts.”