Philosophy

First of 29 volumes of Reiner Schürmann's so far unpublished lecture notes on the history of western thought, this publication traces the rise of self-consciousness in its modern form and function, with Luther as the central figure of Schürmann's study.

An essay by the distinguished philosopher and theorist of art and media on the current evolution and possible future of museum collections practices and strategies.

A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.

The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.

A critical and nuanced overview of the figures of the sleeping in the art and thought of the Renaissance.

An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.

An examination of the relationship between coloniality, raciality, and global capital through a black feminist poethical framework, inspired by Octavia E. Butler's sci-fi novel Kindred (first volume in the On the Antipolitical series).

Through Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, this seminar traces the development of the relation between the will and the law as self-given.

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

A polyphonic investigation that reveals the potential of fictional and philosophical suggestion of the animation of things, questioning the persistence of forms of animism within the project of modernity, in the horizon of a questioning of the anthropocentric foundations of the Western culture.

An artistic and scholarly inquiry into the  work of Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1700–after 1753), an outstanding philosopher of the early eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the first African to earn a doctorate in a European university.

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

The Heideggerien deconstruction of metaphysics by Reiner Schürmann.

Schürmann's lecture on Marx emphasizes the philosophical axis of the German theoretician's work and reads it as a transcendental materialism.

First French translation of a seminal text of media theory, which this edition contextualizes, notably through the debate it provoked with Baudrillard.

Silent Blocks considers two point of views on the Covid-19 pandemic and the way it is dealt by Western countries during the lockdowns of spring 2020. First, Myr Muratet's photographs in a silent Paris. Then, the thoughts of Canadian science journalist David Cayley, based on the work of philosopher Ivan Illich.

Schürmann's lecture on Marx emphasizes the philosophical axis of the German theoretician's work and reads it as a transcendental materialism.

The collection of writings on art by the French philosopher, historian, semiologist and art critic Louis Marin (1931-1992).

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

Can objects be traumatized? How does the commercial value of an art object relate to its aesthetic qualities? How do objects interact? These are some of the questions addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of the Speculative Realism school of thought in contemporary philosophy.

The deep political and moral ambiguity attributed to the maritimeelement in Western philosophical and literary imaginaries.

A philological and theoretical rereading of the late work of Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788).