This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies.

A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.

Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.

An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.

An conceptual attempt to think differently about freedom in its acts.

A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.

What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.

A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.

Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.

An experience of introspection, an epistemological reflection and an act of resistance in the face of depersonalization, around the question of the name.

A stunning look at Stravinski's The Rite of Spring, recreated by choreographer Dominique Brun with thirty dancers in 2013.

This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.

The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.

The challenges of the library and the photographic collection founded by Aby Warburg in the 1920s, as a "laboratory" for collective research on the forms of transmission of images since Antiquity, and an intermedial device of knowledge. An exceptional case study, driven by the question: what was the impact of photography in Warburg's turning point in the history of art and culture?

The first extensive survey of Nordic art during the transition from postmodernism to what might be called "the period of contemporary art".

A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.

A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.

Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.

Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.

The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.

Two studies by the pionneer of the popular music studies.

The French choreographer looks back on his career in a very personal text, both playful and poetic.

A collection of theoretical texts by the German composer: a valuable testimony of his research on the musical link between sound and body.

How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.

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

The aesthetics of Gilles Deleuze.

Through a new reading of the Notebooks of Vaslav Nijinsky, who was described as "insane", and by taking them out of their reduction to a psychiatric diagnosis, Madeleine Abassade reveals the dancer's revolt against an established order of which he was the instrument and from which he sought to emancipate himself by creating his own choreographies.

The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.

The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.

A journey through the painted work of the Israeli artist, writer, visual analyst, psychoanalyst, philosopher and feminist theorist, through a set of reproductions and texts by Jean-François Lyotard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Noam Segal, Amelia Jones, Precious Okoyomon and Bracha L. Ettinger herself.

A fascinating exploration of the utopian origins and tumultuous 130-year history of the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.

A collection of texts about time and artists working with it.

A collection of texts about space and artists working with it.

An anthropologist's view of contemporary African creation.

This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.