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When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and(...)
Making noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & beyond
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When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and understanding of noise. From the uproarious junior gods of Babylonian epics to crying infants heard over baby monitors, from doubly mythic Echo to amplifier feedback, from shouts frozen in Rabelaisian air to the squawk of loudspeakers and the static of shortwave radio, Making Noise follows "unwanted sound" on its surprisingly revealing path through terrains domestic and industrial, urban and rural, legal and religious, musical and medical, poetic and scientific.
Architectural Theory
Robert Walser : microscripts
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Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956. At first considered a secret code, the microscripts were(...)
Robert Walser : microscripts
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Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956. At first considered a secret code, the microscripts were eventually discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of a Germanic script: a whole story could fit on the back of a business card. Schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, the radio, pigs (and how none of us can deny being one), jealousy, Van Gogh and marriage proposals are some of Walser's subjects. These texts take strength from Walser's motto: "To be small and to stay small."
Critical Theory
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The existing art historical narrative on the early career and development of Donald Judd—a landmark figure in the history of postwar art—focuses predominantly on activities and reception in his homeland. As the artist established his formal and conceptual language and received his first critical and institutional recognition in the United States, remarkably little(...)
Donald Judd: The Low Countries, 1966–1971
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The existing art historical narrative on the early career and development of Donald Judd—a landmark figure in the history of postwar art—focuses predominantly on activities and reception in his homeland. As the artist established his formal and conceptual language and received his first critical and institutional recognition in the United States, remarkably little attention has been paid to what has happened on the other side of the Atlantic. Writing from Antwerp, Belgium and working with a rich array of sources from archives in Belgium and The Netherlands, Wouter Davids discloses that during the early years of his European career, Judd could count on significant critical and institutional interest in the European region better known as the Low Countries. The starting point is an interview with Judd for Belgian Radio and Television (BRT) from 1970, published here for the first time.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This first collection reveals the remarkably eloquent writings and conversations of sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975). The compilation finally makes available previously out-of-print and inaccessible writings, and includes a significant number of unpublished texts. A surprisingly large body of work, it spans almost the whole of Hepworth’s artistic life. Her gift for(...)
Barbara Hepworth: writings and conversations
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This first collection reveals the remarkably eloquent writings and conversations of sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975). The compilation finally makes available previously out-of-print and inaccessible writings, and includes a significant number of unpublished texts. A surprisingly large body of work, it spans almost the whole of Hepworth’s artistic life. Her gift for language and desire to communicate to a public are evident throughout. Alongside the writings are Hepworth’s lectures and speeches, a selection of interviews and conversations with writers and journalists, and radio and television broadcasts. The collection sheds new light on Hepworth’s life, her artistic practices, the sources of her inspiration, the breadth of her intellectual interests, and her deep engagement with contemporary politics and society, from the United Nations to St. Ives. Images include replications of the sculptor’s manuscripts and archive photographs from Hepworth’s own collection.
Art Theory
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Ce sont les nouveaux grands seigneurs de notre temps. Les GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) et autres plateformes (Airbnb, Uber et Netflix) règnent sans partage sur un empire numérique qui transcende les frontières nationales, au mépris de la souveraineté des États et de leurs législations. Épidémie de fausses nouvelles, polarisation des débats, contrôle(...)
April 2022
Les barbares numériques : Résister à l'invasion des GAFAM
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Ce sont les nouveaux grands seigneurs de notre temps. Les GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) et autres plateformes (Airbnb, Uber et Netflix) règnent sans partage sur un empire numérique qui transcende les frontières nationales, au mépris de la souveraineté des États et de leurs législations. Épidémie de fausses nouvelles, polarisation des débats, contrôle des données personnelles, surconsommation énergétique et pollution atmosphérique… Ces barbares numériques représentent une véritable menace pour la démocratie. Devant la passivité de nos gouvernements, à Québec comme à Ottawa, Alain Saulnier lance un appel à la résistance. Pour l’ancien directeur de l’information de Radio-Canada, il est urgent d’établir l’équité fiscale, de protéger les droits d’auteur et de moderniser tout l’écosystème numérique. Il en va de la survie de nos médias, de notre langue et de notre culture françaises en Amérique du Nord.
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Une vie digne d'un roman. De la Poméranie à Paris, en passant par Weimar, Berlin, Tunis, New York ou Bâle – pour ne nommer que les étapes les plus significatives –, Ré Soupault a traversé tout le XXe siècle et a été une protagoniste majeure de la vie artistique, littéraire et intellectuelle européenne. À Weimar, élève du Bauhaus, elle rencontre Vassily Kandinsky, Paul(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
January 2026
L'esprit avant tout : Du bauhaus au reste du monde, souvenirs
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Une vie digne d'un roman. De la Poméranie à Paris, en passant par Weimar, Berlin, Tunis, New York ou Bâle – pour ne nommer que les étapes les plus significatives –, Ré Soupault a traversé tout le XXe siècle et a été une protagoniste majeure de la vie artistique, littéraire et intellectuelle européenne. À Weimar, élève du Bauhaus, elle rencontre Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee et Johannes Itten. À Paris, elle fonde un atelier de mode, expose les bijoux d'Elsa Triolet et ses collections sont photographiées par Man Ray.Tour à tour réalisatrice de films abstraits, journaliste, dessinatrice de mode, photographe, traductrice (notamment les Chants de Maldoror de Lautréamont), journaliste pour la radio, éditrice de contes pour enfants, essayiste, elle n'a eu de cesse de se réinventer. Libre et audacieuse, féministe avant l'heure, bien qu'elle soit restée en retrait, Ré Soupault a parcouru le siècle en mêlant art, engagement et modernité.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This volume, originally published in 1962 and long out of print, was the first book on the architect to feature Kahn’s own images and words—and it was Kahn’s favorite book on his work. It includes his early sketches, reproduced at full size, from his European travels in the 1950s as well as renderings of the designs for several of his notable buildings, along with(...)
The notebooks and drawings of Louis I. Kahn
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This volume, originally published in 1962 and long out of print, was the first book on the architect to feature Kahn’s own images and words—and it was Kahn’s favorite book on his work. It includes his early sketches, reproduced at full size, from his European travels in the 1950s as well as renderings of the designs for several of his notable buildings, along with unpublished speeches and excerpts from lectures, radio broadcasts, and other sources. In this sleeve-encased two-book set, a facsimile of the original publication is accompanied by an illustrated Reader’s Guide that features essays and commentary by writers such as scholar William Whitaker and Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger, family members, and fellow architects such as Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, and Denise Scott Brown that contextualize the enormous impact and continuing legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects.
Architecture Monographs
Ryoji Ikeda: datamatics
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One of Japan’s leading electronic composers, Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966) manipulates sound in various “raw” states, often using frequencies at the very limits of human hearing. Occupying a unique soundworld between ambient electronica, sinewave noise and glitch beats, Ikeda’s music has expanded into art contexts more extensively than any of his contemporaries. Datamatics is a(...)
Ryoji Ikeda: datamatics
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One of Japan’s leading electronic composers, Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966) manipulates sound in various “raw” states, often using frequencies at the very limits of human hearing. Occupying a unique soundworld between ambient electronica, sinewave noise and glitch beats, Ikeda’s music has expanded into art contexts more extensively than any of his contemporaries. Datamatics is a long-term art project that explores our reception of miniscule audio and visual data. Developed between 2006–2012, it consists of an audiovisual concert, installations, publications, a radio program and a CD. This book documents most of the works from the series, emphasizing three major Datamatics exhibitions presented in Yamaguchi (Japan 2008), Bogota (Columbia 2011) and Gijon (Spain 2012). Alongside graphic material relating to the production processes such as data sources, graphic scores and technical diagrams, the book also includes texts by curators Kazunao Abe, Maria Belen Sez de Ibarra and Benjamin Weil.
Acoustics
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Comment appréhender le monde digital qui est en train de révolutionner notre siècle?? Dans cet essai, nous faisons l’hypothèse, soufflée par Walter Benjamin lui-même, que nombre de ses intuitions fulgurantes, suscitées par l’essor de la photographie et l’irruption du cinéma, puis de la radio, sont restées en sommeil à son époque, et se réveillent maintenant à la faveur de(...)
Walter Benjamin à l'ère du monde digital
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Comment appréhender le monde digital qui est en train de révolutionner notre siècle?? Dans cet essai, nous faisons l’hypothèse, soufflée par Walter Benjamin lui-même, que nombre de ses intuitions fulgurantes, suscitées par l’essor de la photographie et l’irruption du cinéma, puis de la radio, sont restées en sommeil à son époque, et se réveillent maintenant à la faveur de l’irruption du monde digital. La logique de l’accessibilité mondiale prend racine dans le monde de la reproductibilité mécanique et en révèle le sens. De la même façon que le philosophe a pris au sérieux la technique de la radiodiffusion, au point de devenir lui-même réalisateur d’émissions à la fin des années 20, nous proposons de relire ses textes à l’aune d’une observation matérialiste du monde numérique, où chaque lecteur est en train de devenir auteur et producteur, témoin de sa propre existence en voie de dédoublement.
Critical Theory
La dérive populiste
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Ce livre nous met en garde contre les discours et les débats actuels qui nous mènent dangereusement vers le populisme. La société québécoise, ses politiciens, ses intellectuels et ses médias sont contaminés par le populisme. Il y a de quoi s’inquiéter, nos élites, sensées monter la garde, sont de plus en plus animées par la ferveur populiste. Si l’Europe a des partis(...)
La dérive populiste
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Ce livre nous met en garde contre les discours et les débats actuels qui nous mènent dangereusement vers le populisme. La société québécoise, ses politiciens, ses intellectuels et ses médias sont contaminés par le populisme. Il y a de quoi s’inquiéter, nos élites, sensées monter la garde, sont de plus en plus animées par la ferveur populiste. Si l’Europe a des partis d’extrême droite et les États-Unis le Tea party, le populisme made in Québec n’est pas moins florissant et contrairement à nos illustres voisins semble toucher toutes les castes de la société. De la radio-poubelle de Québec aux discours simplistes de Jean Charest en passant par certains chroniqueurs culturels de La Presse et quelques universitaires bien en vue l’invasion populiste ne présente aucun signe de fléchissement et l’essai de Philippe Bernier Arcand analyse clairement le phénomène tout en nommant les principaux responsables de cette épidémie philosophique.
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