Philosophy

David Graeber's interviews (with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman) redefine the contours of what an anarchist morality could be today.

A journey through the life and way of thinking of the French intellectual, medical biologist, philosopher and writer.

A collective and transdisciplinary study of the representation of plants and their powers to reflect on the question of animation, cinema, photography and, more broadly, image, in the Anthropocene era and in the context of the "vegetal turn" at work in the human sciences as well as in contemporary art.

Thinking design with philosophy (a teaching manual).

Four texts about the sky by Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), English aristocrat, writer, philosopher and scientist whose salon was home to Descartes, Hobbes and Gassendi, precursor of feminism and author of one of the first works of science fiction.

The colony as a major philosophical concept in contemporary political thought—a basis for reflection on decolonization (expanded reprint of the book published in 2008).

In this course, Reiner Schürmann develops the idea of a distinctive Medieval Renaissance, connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. His analysis is drawn from readings of St. Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham and Meister Eckhart's works.

This volume of Reiner Schürmann's lectures unpacks Nietzsche's ambivalence towards Kant, in particular positioning Nietzsche's claim to have brought an end to German idealism against the backdrop of the Kantian transcendental-critical tradition.

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.

The ultra-blackness manifesto: a Deleuzian reading of the philosophical and socio-political stakes of the current electronic music scene (publication marking the reactivation of the influential label Mille Plateaux, with texts by an ensemble of international musicians, artists and theorists: Frédéric Neyrat, Achim Szepanski, Holger Schulze, Gerriet K. Sharma, Bernd Herzogenrath, Corry Shores, Marcus Schmickler, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner...).

The 3rd issue of the transversal and transgressive magazine, between contemporary art, comics, graphic arts, philosophy and politics.

A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.

A transdisciplinary discussion on the influence of computer-based technologies on the conditions of biological research.

A manifesto for artistic research and in defense of its autonomy.

Six short stories by Maria Kakogianni, between literary fiction and philosophy.

Four essays by philosopher and musicologist Peter Szendy on Anri Sala's recent practice. Szendy emphasises the key role played by music and sound in Sala's sensorial installations.

Diaphanes #8/9 looks into curious loops of reproduced present, the integral of circular I-effects, the other side of the social Möbius strip. Is the self nothing but an echo? An effect without cause? The human being a message, an autoreply in the jargon of social-memes? Who or what massages the backchannel so astoundingly self-similarly, like an invisible hand?

The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.

Erin Manning expands her research on movement politics to the concept of minor gesture.

The reception of Charles Fourier's thought in Japan.

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.

Sexuality as a properly philosophical problem of psychoanalysis.

An analysis of the relationship between art and literature over the last six decades.

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...

Diaphanes is conjuring the ghosts of the avant-garde for its Summer 2019 double issue, including a 80-page insert with 155 photos by Antoine d'Agata and an essay by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem.

A genealogy of modern architectural culture through an analysis of the project both theoretical and practical of the Italian architect, historian and critic of architecture Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994).

The first French edition of the text on exile by ancient philosopher Favorinos (circa 80-150).

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.

One of Levinas' rare statements focusing on the fine arts.

A conversation, accompanied by an introduction by Andrea Soto Calderón, to better understand the crucial role that images occupy in Jacques Rancière's work, and how images are the site of imaginative and reconfiguring operations.

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

Philosopher Ludger Schwarte presents a critical essay against the notion of contemporaneity in art and pleads for a renewed temporality: an art of futurity.

Once upon a time, in a coral palace at the bottom of the sea, hidden from human eyes, there lived a princess with a fish's tail. Her parents adored her, and she was engaged to the most tender and beautiful of all the mermen, and she could have been the happiest of all the mermaids. But the little princess was desperately unhappy… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

A reflection on the myth of abundance, at the intersection of philosophy, arts and letters, anthropology, political and natural sciences.

Interview with influential astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau on animal welfare and related issues, including ecology and vegetarianism.

This issue turns its attention to deception and censorship, violence and consumption, enjoyment and norm, to the techniques of taming and the economies of morality; it measures the distance between art and non-art, follows the beast of freedom in the aporias of form, searches out lucid angles of wild reflection, moments of anarchic seeing, new means of emancipation.

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.

A Western Marxist analysis of the relationship between the historical present and political action.

A philosophy of decolonization that intends to show how, in knowledge and the arts, the past can be passed.

An essay on Adolfo Bioy Casares' novel.

Questioning the meaning of one's existence with Martin Heidegger (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

To find the way of Wisdom with Lao-Tzu (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

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.

A philosophical and artistic questioning on the singularity of the notion of time in contemporary dance.