Philosophy

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

A new approach to the history of Fourierism and societary movement, based on the project of a biographical dictionary of Fourierism.

The extended new edition of the out-of-print publication of the same name, from the year 1996, appears on the occasion of the death of Friedrich Kittler. Along with an introduction, it contains an extensive and unabridged interview with Stefan Banz and Kittler's unusual text Skiagraphia, die Schattenschrift (the shadowed text) from 2005.

Two both aesthetic and political engaged considerations on the relationship between the West and the Middle East (or more generally between the West and its others), from the figures of exile and the two cultures: three unpublished interviews of Edward W. Said / a deconstruction of a common European view on the Arab world by Seloua Luste Boulbina.

A series of portraits of philosophers remained outside majority movements of contemporary thought (Gabriel Tarde, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, John Dewey, Charles Péguy, Etienne Souriau, Raymond Ruyer, and Gilbert Simondon), brought together around the theme of the “possession”.

A confrontation of the works of Marx, Freud, and Lacan.

This second issue brings together contributions reflecting on the political commitment and literary work of Jean-Marc Rouillan, and shedding light on three of Rouillan's most important influences today: philosophers Daniel Bensaïd and Henri Lefebvre, and activist Pierre Goldman (with contributions by Véronique Bergen, Charles Pennequin, Julien Blaine, Rada Ivekovic, Pierre Linguanotto, Laurence Denimal, Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou…).

Derrida's postcards to Blanchot, essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, Didier Cahen, Kevin Hart, Michel Deguy, lectures at the Collège International de Philosophie (Gisèle Berkman, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland), studies (Jérémie Majorel, Daniel Dobbels, Yuji Nishiyama), reading notes...

This volume assembles articles that investigate the question of the possible and the impossible in politics. Discussing thinkers such as Agamben, Badiou, Foucault, and Debord, Beyond Potentialities? explores different perspectives and highlight the relevance of this issue for contemporary political thought.

Collection of fictitious transcripts of radio speeches by experts on subjects such as art in life, the scarcity of water, cigarettes, or neighborhood relations. Among the 21 speeches, only one is authentic. A humoristic take on the notion of expert, and its propagandist deviation.

Essays by Patrick Samzun, Louis Ucciani, Tomomi Fukushima, Quentin Detourbet, Denis Andro...

An experimental selection of documents from the archives of the city of Marseilles, constituting a visual representation of biopower as theorized by philosopher Michel Foucault.

Part philosophical anthology and part science fiction, this illustrated volume tackles the mind-boggling phenomenon of post-humanism. Journey to the End of the Species offers various proposals to actually create successors to the human race, establishing a set of resources--literary, artistic and political--to initiate thinking about a previously inconceivable future beyond humanity as we know it.

Part philosophical anthology and part science fiction, this illustrated volume tackles the mind-boggling phenomenon of post-humanism. Journey to the End of the Species offers various proposals to actually create successors to the human race, establishing a set of resources--literary, artistic and political--to initiate thinking about a previously inconceivable future beyond humanity as we know it.

An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.

From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.

Charles Fourier's theories and archives, his disciples and the concrete becomings of his utopian system, his influences in history, in modern and contemporary art... with about 20 essays and 300 illustrations.

A pornographic text in which the author gives a desperate speech to his beloved. A nerve-racking narrative in which Michel Surya pushes the limits of excess.

The first issue of the collective review edited by philosopher and playwright Alain Jugnon gathers contributions inspired by the works of Michel Surya, and of three of his main influences, Beckett, Kafka, and Pascal.

New Marxist perspectives.

This publication features fictions dealing with physical deformations and doubles, in order to reflect on the duality of man and the body.

An essay on Charles Fourier's legacy through his disciples and "utopian" activists in late XIXth century.

A philosophical approach to the image in the margins or outer limits of art (from art brut to experimental art and its political extensions).

Inspired by a water tower conceived by architect Thierry Van de Wyngaert, philosopher Jean-Paul Curnier shares a text on his teenage years in South-East France.

Essay.

The architecture as method: an essay by philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe.

A short essay on the experience of intimacy in socialized modern life, followed by two new texts on the concepts of sustainability and habit.

Commentary on Walter Benjamin's theses: On the concept of history.

A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

A conversation between the architect and the philosopher.

First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.

The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".

For the 20 years of Cahiers Charles Fourier: new issues, vast territories, meeting with readers of Fourier (architects, mediums, and anarchists); critical edition of Roland Barthes' researches on Fourier, actuality of Fourierism.

A conversation between the celebrated Russian philosopher and the young international artist from Georgia.

An essay / manifesto to reconsider the objectivity of the sensations provided by artworks, and to reconsider contemporary art in itself rather than as a genre, alongside modern and classical art.

An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.

A philosophical essay reflecting on ethics and poetics through the thought of Gilles Deleuze.

Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.

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

A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.

Special issue devoted to Victor Considerant (1808-2008).

An essay on Gary Hill's video work, taking Maurice Blanchot's writing as a starting point, between literature, philosophy, aesthics and psychoanalysis.

Two essays in which the Italian philosopher proposes a study of the concept of festivity.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

Hermeneutics: 6 patterns of analysis.