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Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. "I am an antichrist!" shouted(...)
Lipstick traces: a secret history of the twentieth century
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Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. "I am an antichrist!" shouted singer Johnny Rotten--where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense
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Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of(...)
Chaos, territory, art, Deleuze and the framing of the earth
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Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires, not just its intention and aesthetic. By regarding our most cultured human accomplishments as the result of the excessive, nonfunctional forces of sexual attraction and seduction, Grosz encourages us to see art as a kind of bodily enhancement or mode of sensation enabling living bodies to experience and transform the universe. Art can be understood as a way for bodies to augment themselves and their capacity for perception and affection-a way to grow and evolve through sensation. Through this framework, which knits together the theories of Charles Darwin, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, FA(c)lix Guattari, and Jakob von UexkA1/4ll, we are able to grasp art's deep animal lineage. Grosz argues that art is not tied to the predictable and known but to new futures not contained in the present. Its animal affiliations ensure that art is intensely political and charged with the creation of new worlds and new forms of living. According to Grosz, art is the way in which life experiments with materiality, or nature, in order to bring about change.
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Petit Manuel d'inesthétique
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Didactisme, romantisme, classicisme sont les schèmes possibles du noeud entre art et philosophie, le tiers terme de ce noeud étant l'éducation des sujets, et singulièrement de la jeunesse. Or, ce qui caractérise à mon sens notre siècle finissant est que, tout en ayant éprouvé la saturation de ces trois schèmes, il n'en a pas introduit de nouveau. Ce qui tend à produire,(...)
Petit Manuel d'inesthétique
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Didactisme, romantisme, classicisme sont les schèmes possibles du noeud entre art et philosophie, le tiers terme de ce noeud étant l'éducation des sujets, et singulièrement de la jeunesse. Or, ce qui caractérise à mon sens notre siècle finissant est que, tout en ayant éprouvé la saturation de ces trois schèmes, il n'en a pas introduit de nouveau. Ce qui tend à produire, aujourd'hui, une sorte de dénouage des termes, un dé-rapport désespéré entre l'art et la philosophie, et la chute pure et simple de ce qui circulait entre eux: le thème éducatif De là découle la thèse autour de laquelle ce petit livre n'est qu'une série de variations: au regard d'une telle situation de saturation et de clôture, il faut tenter de proposer un nouveau schème, un quatrième mode de nouage entre philosophie et art. Détails sur le produit
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De l'amour
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Dans le cadre d'un séminaire interdisciplinaire consacré au thème de l'amour, l'Ecole de la Cause freudienne a invité, entre novembre 1997 et juin 1998, six conférenciers, dont ce livre présente les contributions : Alain Badiou, professeur à l'université de Paris VIII : " La scène du Deux ". Roger Dragonetti, professeur honoraire à l'université de Genève : " La " chose"(...)
De l'amour
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Dans le cadre d'un séminaire interdisciplinaire consacré au thème de l'amour, l'Ecole de la Cause freudienne a invité, entre novembre 1997 et juin 1998, six conférenciers, dont ce livre présente les contributions : Alain Badiou, professeur à l'université de Paris VIII : " La scène du Deux ". Roger Dragonetti, professeur honoraire à l'université de Genève : " La " chose" du plus grand désir dans les chansons du premier troubadour ". Alain Grosrichard, professeur à l'université de Genève : " L'inoculation de l'amour ". Brigitte Jaques, comédienne et metteur en scène : " Corneille et l'amour ". Charles Méla, doyen de la faculté des lettres de l'université de Genève et professeur de littérature française du Moyen Age : " L'amour et l'"Or riant" ". Jacques Roubaud, directeur d'études à l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales : " L'amour, la poésie ".
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Ce tome 3 de Critique de la vie quotidienne paraît vingt ans après le tome 2 et près de quarante ans après le tome 1. On y cherche à mettre en lumière les modifications inscrites dans la quotidienneté et en même temps à déceler quelques vitualités du quotidien, en tenant compte de la crise de la modernité mais aussi de l'affirmation péremptoire du modernisme(...)
Le sens de la marche: critique de la vie quotidienne 3, de la modernité au modernisme (pour une métaphilosophie du quotidien)
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Ce tome 3 de Critique de la vie quotidienne paraît vingt ans après le tome 2 et près de quarante ans après le tome 1. On y cherche à mettre en lumière les modifications inscrites dans la quotidienneté et en même temps à déceler quelques vitualités du quotidien, en tenant compte de la crise de la modernité mais aussi de l'affirmation péremptoire du modernisme technologique. Philosophique en un sens, l'ouvrage explore une problèmatique qui n'est plus celle de la philosophie traditionnelle. D'où le sous-titre: Pour une métaphilosophie du quotidien.
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This new edition of Soft Subversions expands, reorganizes, and develops the original 1996 publication, offering a carefully organized arrangement of essays, interviews, and short texts that present a fuller scope to Guattari's thinking from 1977 to 1985. This period encompasses what Guattari himself called the "Winter Years" of the early 1980s—the imprisonment of Italian(...)
Soft subversions: texts and interviews 1977-1985
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This new edition of Soft Subversions expands, reorganizes, and develops the original 1996 publication, offering a carefully organized arrangement of essays, interviews, and short texts that present a fuller scope to Guattari's thinking from 1977 to 1985. This period encompasses what Guattari himself called the "Winter Years" of the early 1980s—the imprisonment of Italian radicals, the disillusion with the socialists in power, the backlash against post-'68 thinking, the spread of environmental catastrophe, and the establishment of a postmodernist ideology aimed at adaptation rather than change—a period with discernible echoes twenty years later.
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According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in Northern France. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary's vital function first. Using poison gas signaled(...)
Terror from the air
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According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in Northern France. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary's vital function first. Using poison gas signaled the passage from classical war to terrorism. This terror from the air inaugurated an era in which the main idea was no longer to target the enemy's body, but their environment. From then on, what would be attacked in wartime as well as in peacetime would be the very conditions necessary for life.
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Nicolas Malebranche is now recognised as a major figure in the history of philosophy, occupying a crucial place in the Rationalist tradition of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The Search after Truth is his first, longest and most important work; this volume also presents the Elucidations which accompanied its third edition, the result of comments that Malebranche(...)
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Malebranche the search after truth
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Nicolas Malebranche is now recognised as a major figure in the history of philosophy, occupying a crucial place in the Rationalist tradition of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The Search after Truth is his first, longest and most important work; this volume also presents the Elucidations which accompanied its third edition, the result of comments that Malebranche solicited on the original work and an important repository of his theories of ideas and causation.
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In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words of Christian saints and modern-day sages, this irresistible book contains much to(...)
The book of dead philosophers
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In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words of Christian saints and modern-day sages, this irresistible book contains much to inspire both amusement and reflection. Each entry tells its own tale, but collected together they add up to a profound and moving investigation of meaning and the possibility of happiness for us all.
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Slow is beautiful
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This book analyzes the subtle consumer, political and corporate forces stamping the joy from our existence and provides a vision of a more fulfilling life through the rediscovery of caring community, unhurried leisure, and life affirming joie de vivre.
Slow is beautiful
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This book analyzes the subtle consumer, political and corporate forces stamping the joy from our existence and provides a vision of a more fulfilling life through the rediscovery of caring community, unhurried leisure, and life affirming joie de vivre.
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