Anthropology / ethnology / social studies

 
 
Kader Attia -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
À perte de vue - Les nouveaux paradigmes du visuel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.
Penser l\'image - Volume 2 – Anthropologies du visuel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.
Ce qui ne sert pas s\'oublie / Lo que no sirve se olvida
2015
bilingual edition (Spanish / French)
CAPC
12.00 3.00 €
“Ce qui ne sert pas s'oublie” (“What cannot be used is forgotten”) accompanies and extends the reach of the exhibition of the same title. Both deal with the mutating statuses of objects in relation to possible historical narratives, especially those related to colonial past and present and the layers of cultural, spiritual, and identity production that stem from them.
Tim Ingold - Intuitive Notebook #-2 - Diagrams, Drawings and Spaces – Le dédale et le labyrinthe : la marche et l\'éducation de l\'attention
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Since his historical research on the line, anthropologist Tim Ingold has been working closely with laboratoire des intuitions on diagrams. This unpublished text follows a working session at the Kandinsky Library at Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Piero Vereni - Slices of Life - 52 recipes from 31 perfects strangers
2015
English edition
Bruno
This cookbook is the outcome of a collective project for which random people opened the door of their kitchen to share their favorite recipe and tell their life experience. A celebration of life and cooking in 52 recipes and 31 portraits illustrated with colir photographs.
Siegfried Kracauer - Kracauer - Photographic Archive
2014
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The photography book Kracauer. Photographic Archive is a collection of previously unpublished photographic material from the estate of the sociologist, philosopher, journalist and film and photograph theorist Siegfried Kracauer.
Loïc Rignol - Les Hiéroglyphes de la Nature - Le socialisme scientifique en France dans le premier XIXe siècle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An epistemology of historical socialism (politics, natural sciences, humanities and religion in the early XIXth century).
Siegfried Kracauer - The Past\'s Threshold - Essays on Photography
2014
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. This volume brings together for the first time all of Kracauer's essays on photography that he wrote between 1927 and 1933. It includes a foreword by Philippe Despoix, and a curriculum vitae illustrated with photographs from the Kracauer estate.
Marc Décimo - Sciences et Pataphysique - Tome I : Savants reconnus, érudits aberrés, fous littéraires, hétéroclites et celtomanes en quête d\'ancêtres hébreux, troyens, gaulois, francs, atlantes, animaux, végétaux, aryens, extraterrestres et autres ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.
Ixiptla
2014
English edition
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
First issue of the biannual journal about trajectories of anthropology and archeology, initiated by Berlin-based Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball.
Volume! - Arranging the World
2014
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Works, authors and rights: music and dance in globalization.
Education et totalitarisme - L\'éducation dans les pays d\'Europe centrale et orientale
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Education and totalitarianism, in Central and Eastern Europe: a multidisciplinary reflection on totalitarianism as a political and anthropological project which, paradoxically, puts the question of education at the center of its concerns.
Pierre-Luc Abramson - Mondes nouveaux et Nouveau Monde - Les utopies sociales en Amérique latine au XIXe siècle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A study of social utopias (of European origin, mainly French) in Latin America in the 19th century: a contribution to the defense of utopia as a driving force of human progress, against all forms of utilitarianism and pragmatism.
Emmanuelle Bayart - Commémoration
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
First photography book by Emmanuelle Bayart, dedicated to memorial issues in the town of Sarcelles, in a “ville nouvelle” sociocultural context.
Foreign Exchange (or the stories you wouldn\'t tell a stranger)
2014
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
This publication investigates the historical accumulation and commodification of artefacts and the representation of the human body as seen on ethnographic photographs. New material developed out of artistic research in the Weltkulturen Labor is presented together with unpublished scientific photography. Extended conversations between internationally renowned anthropologists, art historians, curators and artists offer new connections between past and present. Foreign Exchange responds to current interest in the remediation of ethnographic collections, colonial history, historical archives, and interdisciplinary curatorial practice.
Christian Joschke - Les yeux de la nation - Photographie amateur et société dans l\'Allemagne de Guillaume II (1888-1914)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Social and political dimension of the emergence of a culture of the image carried by the amateur practice of photography in Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century.
A bras le corps - Matérialité, image et devenir des corps
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
A collective publication that brings together artists and researchers on the issue of the body.
Dario Gamboni - Paul Gauguin au « centre mystérieux de la pensée »
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.
Alessandra Russo - L\'image intraduisible - Une histoire métisse des arts en Nouvelle-Espagne (1500-1600)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A metis art history in New Spain: an analysis of the complex dynamics of crossbreeding between some singular artistic practices invented in New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the European Renaissance, in the political context of the Iberian expansion in the Americas.
Jan Verwoert - Animal Spirits - Fables in the Parlance of Our Times
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
“Animal Spirits: Fables in the Parlance of Our Times” is an artist's book by Michael Stevenson and Jan Verwoert which expands upon the themes of this earlier document and re-examines them more specifically in the light of our current times.
Niklas Luhmann - La réalité des médias de masse
2013
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
This essay offers a careful analysis of the mass media system and the simplifying selections it operates within the complexity and contingency of the world.
Colin Crouch - Post-démocratie
2013
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
Starting from the deep malaise and the violent crisis of confidence in state institutions in modern democracies, this essay analyzes the growing influence and power of the multinational corporations in modern democracies.
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Beirut (+ DVD)
2013
English edition
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
A mapping of the young Lebanese art scene (DVD included).
Alessandro Bosetti - Renard (vinyl LP)
2013
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
A chamber music project on LP by the Italian composer, sound artist and performer, inspired by an African divination ritual.
Sylvain Lazarus - L\'Intelligence de la politique
2013
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
A collection of texts investigating the field of political thought by French anthropologist and sociologist Sylvain Lazarus.
Steve Rushton - Masters of Reality
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The first collection of texts by Steve Rushton, exploring the interrelations between art, anthropology, social sciences, psychology, media, politics, and economy.
Autres - Être sauvage de Rousseau à nos jours
2012
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A collective essay as much as an exhibition catalogue, dedicated to the imaginary of the savage, from the 15th century to the contemporary culture, based on Rousseau's conception of state of nature.
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - A Collective Experience
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
21.00 12.00 €
Suspended spaces #2 is a trip in the libanese territories. It develops artistical proposals and philosophical approaches of modernism in a middle eastern country.
Sophie Statius - Langage de l\'enfant, langage du peuple - Qu\'est-ce que la « vie du langage » ?
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The relationship between language and thought in pedagogy and humanities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Robert Milin - Un espace de l\'art ? (DVD)
2012
bilingual edition (English / French) / DVD in French version (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
A film by Robert Milin to question the conditions and implications of “art in the suburbs.” (with Sylvie Blocher, Thomas Hirschhorn, Didier Marcel, Guy Tortosa...).
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - L\'œuvre commune - Affaire d\'art et de citoyen
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.
Devant les images - Penser l\'art et l\'histoire avec Georges Didi-Huberman
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
Thirteen texts (including an unpublished essay by Georges Didi-Huberman) to think art and history together, from the tools developed by the theorist of the future of images.
Anne Petiau - Technomedia - Jeunes, musique & blogosphère
2011
French edition
Mélanie Seteun - Music and Society
The relations between youth culture, digital practices, and media industries with the example of electro dances and Tecktonik phenomenon.
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - Famagusta
2011
English edition
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
A ghost town in Cyprus as a metaphor for an aesthetic and political reconstruction in the margins of Europe: an artistic approach to contemporary issues related to a real situation, with about 30 international artists and contributions by writers from different fields (philosophy, anthropology, history, politics, and sociology).
Emmanuel Guy - Préhistoire du sentiment artistique - L\'invention du style, il y a 20 000 ans
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.
Lewis H. Morgan - Le castor américain et ses ouvrages
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie - Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An investigation of the latent yet easily overlooked issue of social class in contemporary art.
Sophie Leclercq - La rançon du colonialisme - Les surréalistes face aux mythes de la France coloniale (1919-1962)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.
Denis-Constant Martin - Quand le rap sort de sa bulle - Sociologie politique d\'un succès populaire
2010
French edition
Mélanie Seteun - Music and Society
A sociological and musical study which shows how French female rapper Diam's contributed to introduce a series of social issues within the public debate.
Ralf Marsault - Résistance à l\'effacement - Nature de l\'espace et temporalité de la présence sur les Wagenburgs de Berlin entre 1990 et 1996
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
A visual anthropology study on the Wagenburgs and the Berliner punk community.
Hans Belting - La double perspective - La science arabe et l\'art de la Renaissance
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A conference on the invention of perspective, Arab science and the art of the Renaissance.
Marine Hugonnier -
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Semiotext(e) - The German Issue
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.
Alfred Gell - L\'art et ses agents - Une théorie anthropologique
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.
Stéréo - Sociologie  comparée des musiques populaires – France / Grande-Bretagne
2008
French edition
Mélanie Seteun - Music and Society
13 British and French researchers in popular music studies highlight the differences and similarities between two contexts and two research traditions to better understand the amplified music on both sides of the Channel.
Pre-specifics - Some Comparatistic Investigations on Research in Design and Art
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Research in Design and Art.
Neil McWilliam - Rêves de bonheur - L\'art social et la gauche française (1830-1850)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.
Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
A part of the Dutch Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
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