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What would a sculpture look like that has as its task to touch thought? For the French philosopher and Art Historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, this is the central question that permeates throughout the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. Through...

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The art of living today has shifted to a continuous state of the experimental. In one of his last texts, Telemorphosis, renowned thinker and anti-philosopher Jean Baudrillard takes on the task of thinking and reflecting on the coming digital media...

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Simondon is a secret password among certain discussions within philosophy today. As a philosopher of technology, Simondons work has a place at the forefront of current thinking in media, technology, psychology, and philosophy with complex accounts...

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Before the world knew of the thinker who philosophizes with a hammer, there was a young, passionate thinker who was captivated by the two forces found within Greek art: Dionysus and Apollo. In this essay, which was the forerunner to his groundbrea...

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As historical processes increasingly become steeped in technology, it becomes more necessary for a discipline to emerge that is capable of comprehending these materialities to better understand the fields they inundate such as science, art, and wa...

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Very few thinkers have traveled the heretical path that Franois Laruelle walks between philosophy and non-philosophy. For Laruelle, the future of philosophy is problematic, but a mutation of its functions is possible. Up until now, philosophy has ...

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World-renowned philosopher, Michel Serres writes a text in praise of the body and movement, in praise of teachers of physical education, coaches, mountain guides, athletes, dancers, mimes, clowns, artisans, and artists. This work describes the var...

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Biogea is a mixture of poetry, philosophy, science, and biography exemplary of the style that has made Michel Serres one of the most extraordinary thinkers of his age. His philosophical and poetic inquiry sings in praise of earth and life, what he...

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Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilm Flusser asks in Post-History. Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently dev...

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The Arachnean and Other Texts by Fernand Deligny (19131996) is a collection of writings from the second half of the 1970s. In 1968 Deligny established a network for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of l...

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Twenty years after cultivating a new orientation for aesthetics via the concept of non-photography, Franois Laruelle returns, having further developed his notion of a non-standard aesthetics. Published for the first time in a bilingual edition, Ph...

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Each generation invents new practices and new writings of philosophy. Ours should have been able to introduce certain mutations that would at least be equivalent with those of cubism, abstract art, and twelve-tone serialism: it has only partially ...

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In The Dictionary of Non-Philosophy, the French thinker Franois Laruelle does something unprecedented for philosophers: he provides an enormous dictionary with a theoretical introduction, carefully crafting his thoughts to explain the numerous ter...

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In Natural:Mind, published for the first time in So Paulo, Brazil, in 1979, Vilm Flusser investigates the paradoxical connection between the concepts of nature and culture through a lively para-phenomenological analysis of natural and cultural phe...

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From Almanac of Fall (1984) to The Turin Horse (2011), renowned Hungarian filmmaker Bla Tarr has followed the collapse of the communist promise. The time after is not the uniform and morose time of those who no longer believe in anything. It is th...

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The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the past seventy years, Siegfried Zielinskis [ . . . After the Media] discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, ...

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Since the times of Plato and Aristotle, the relation of poetry to philosophy has been controversial. For certain scholars, poetry should in no way be confused with philosophy. For others, poetry is at the heart of the possibility of thinking itsel...

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The advent of the cinema radically altered our comprehension of time, space, and reality. With his experience as a pioneering avant-garde filmmaker, Jean Epstein uses the universes created by the cinematograph to deconstruct our understanding of h...

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The French philosopher Flix Guattari frequently visited Japan during the 1980s and organized exchanges between French and Japanese artists and intellectuals. His immersion into the machinic eros of Japanese culture put him into contact with media ...

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In 1939, a young Vilm Flusser faced the Nazi invasion of his hometown of Prague. He escaped with his wife to Brazil, taking with him only two books: a small Jewish prayer book and Goethes Faust. Twenty-six years later, in 1965, Flusser would publi...

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Following the collapse of the communist states it was assumed that Marxist philosophy had collapsed with it. In Introduction to Non-Marxism, Franois Laruelle aims to recover Marxism along with its failure by asking the question What is to be done ...

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Those who are mad like Antonin Artaud, are they just as mad as he was? Madness, like the plague, is contagious, and everyone, from his psychiatrists to his disciples, family, and critics, everyone who gets close to Artaud, seems to participate in ...

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Were doomed. So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the s...

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In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor, he elucidates the distinction between science f...

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How does one write an experimental ABC, an impossible theory that would deal with a series of phenomena, concepts, places, sensations, persons, and moods? A para-philosophy? Returning to a once-abandoned project of fragmented thoughts where the au...

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What relation is there between the existence of a work of art and that of a living being? Between the existence of an atom and that of a value like solidarity? These questions become our own each time a realitywhether it is a piece of music, someo...

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In our current landscape of communicative and connective excess, a very novel contemporary exhaustion exacerbated by our relation to the postdigital terrain is ever present. The Brazilian philosopher and schizoanalyst Peter Pl Pelbart pushes the v...

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Freestyle thinkingthat is Vilm Flussers intellectual modus operandi: challenging and offensive, paradoxical and audacious. His thought knows no disciplines or subjects nor does it pay tribute to other academic frameworks or rituals. Above all else...

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In 1963 Vilm Flusser presented a series of lectures at the Brazilian Institute of Philosophy (IBF) in So Paulo concerning the philosophy of language. The resulting ten essays would eventually be published in 1965 in the annual magazine of the Braz...

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Grafting: do we ever do anything other than that? And are we ever free from vegetal influences when we engage in its operations? For the philosopher Michael Marder, our reflections on vegetal life have a fundamental importance in how we can reflec...

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