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The system of objects
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A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
The system of objects
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A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
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August 2006
Critical Theory
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Remi Hess rencontre Henri Lefebvre en 1967 à Nanterre. Depuis, il n'a cessé de lire, de commenter et de prolonger l'oeuvre de ce philosophe, sociologue, historien que fut Henri Lefebvre. Ici, R. Hess propose avec H. Lefebvre de construire une pensée du possible. Que peut-on percevoir comme possible ? L'impossible aujourd'hui ne sera-t-il pas le possible de demain ? R.(...)
Henri Lefebvre et la pensée du possible : Théorie des moments et construction de la personne
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Remi Hess rencontre Henri Lefebvre en 1967 à Nanterre. Depuis, il n'a cessé de lire, de commenter et de prolonger l'oeuvre de ce philosophe, sociologue, historien que fut Henri Lefebvre. Ici, R. Hess propose avec H. Lefebvre de construire une pensée du possible. Que peut-on percevoir comme possible ? L'impossible aujourd'hui ne sera-t-il pas le possible de demain ? R. Hess reprend la théorie des moments, proposée par Lefebvre, en y voyant un outil de construction de la personne. L'originalité de Henri Lefebvre et la pensée du possible est de proposer une méthode pour expliciter ses moments : l'écriture de journaux. Le journal des moments apparaît ainsi comme une technique de construction de la personne. Cet ouvrage, qui peut apparaître volumineux, est en fait un recueil de petits ouvrages à lire au bon moment. Certains sont théoriques, d'autres sont biographiques. Ce livre, de facture lefebvrienne, est le produit d'une dialectique entre le perçu, le vécu et le conçu.
Critical Theory
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In this collection, leading scholars in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism engage Rancière’s work, illuminating its originality, breadth, and rigor, as well as its place in current debates. They also explore the relationships between Rancière and the various authors and artists he has analyzed, ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Flaubert,(...)
Critical Theory
September 2009
Jacques Rancière : history, politics, aesthetics
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In this collection, leading scholars in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism engage Rancière’s work, illuminating its originality, breadth, and rigor, as well as its place in current debates. They also explore the relationships between Rancière and the various authors and artists he has analyzed, ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Flaubert, Rossellini, Auerbach, Bourdieu, and Deleuze.
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Utopies nomades
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En 1996, cet essai prenait pour sous-titre En attendant 2002. Voici que la première décennie du XXIe siècle s'écoule sans que les questions soulevées par notre besoin d'utopie aient perdu de leur actualité ; sans que l'exigence d'un changement de société, de système, ait perdu de son urgence. Plus que jamais, au contraire, pour sortir de la crise, de l'impasse, tant(...)
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October 2009
Utopies nomades
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En 1996, cet essai prenait pour sous-titre En attendant 2002. Voici que la première décennie du XXIe siècle s'écoule sans que les questions soulevées par notre besoin d'utopie aient perdu de leur actualité ; sans que l'exigence d'un changement de société, de système, ait perdu de son urgence. Plus que jamais, au contraire, pour sortir de la crise, de l'impasse, tant économique que sociale, qu'écologique, que spirituelle, l'esprit d'utopie nous est nécessaire. Il ne s'agit pas d'entendre, par là, la conception abstraite d'une société idéale rêvée, mais, à la manière d'Ernst Bloch, la plus précise, la plus sincère attention au réel, ou, dans le langage de Charles Fourier, aux passions incoercibles. L'utopie d'aujourd'hui est, à la fois, rationnelle et passionnelle. Surtout, elle n'occupe plus une île, elle n'a pas qu'un seul modèle, elle est multiple ; et les utopies qui se proposent dans tous les domaines de la vie, sont dispersées, «nomades». En leur centre toutefois, une préoccupation majeure est celle de l'habitation enfin humaine de la planète, grâce à une hospitalité universelle permettant à chacun, en tout point de la Terre, de se sentir chez soi.
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Walter Benjamin, essai
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Cet essai est une réflexion philosophique sur la pensée de Walter Benjamin appliquée à notre société contemporaine. Cinq thèmes majeurs sont abordés : le fragment(aire) de l’existence ; le souvenir et la mémoire ; la rédemption du langage et la rédemption de l’écriture — le traducteur et la traduction ; le critique et la critique — ; les pertes et les possibilités de(...)
Walter Benjamin, essai
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Cet essai est une réflexion philosophique sur la pensée de Walter Benjamin appliquée à notre société contemporaine. Cinq thèmes majeurs sont abordés : le fragment(aire) de l’existence ; le souvenir et la mémoire ; la rédemption du langage et la rédemption de l’écriture — le traducteur et la traduction ; le critique et la critique — ; les pertes et les possibilités de l’expérience et, enfin, l’architecture du rêve collectif, ou la psychanalyse de la ville.
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To our friends
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The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged from campus bulletin boards to Fox News. Seven years later, The Invisible Committee follows up their premonitory manifesto with a new book, To Our Friends.
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The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged from campus bulletin boards to Fox News. Seven years later, The Invisible Committee follows up their premonitory manifesto with a new book, To Our Friends.
Critical Theory
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In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature, and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object.
No Medium
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In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature, and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object.
Critical Theory
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Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to understand, ‘pataphysics nevertheless lies around the roots of Absurdism, Dada, futurism, surrealism, situationism, and other key cultural developments of the twentieth century. In this account of(...)
Pataphysics : a useless guide
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Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to understand, ‘pataphysics nevertheless lies around the roots of Absurdism, Dada, futurism, surrealism, situationism, and other key cultural developments of the twentieth century. In this account of the evolution and influence of ‘pataphysics, Andrew Hugill offers an informed exposition of a rich and difficult territory, staying aloft on a tightrope stretched between the twin dangers of oversimplifying a serious subject and taking a joke too seriously.
Critical Theory
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Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question “Why?” has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What(...)
Curiosity
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Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question “Why?” has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In this book, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the reading that has mapped his way.
Critical Theory
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When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments,(...)
June 2015
The marvelous clouds: toward a philosophy of elemental media
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When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments, the reverse is also just as true - environments are media.