Category: Theory/Fiction

-- ∞ "Can We Overcome Modernity's Acosmia?" (pdf) - Augustin Berque, 2018 Translation: Drew S. Burk. Augustin Berque, born in 1942 in Morocco, a French geographer and orientalist, is a retired director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, where he has been teaching from 1979 to 2017. A … Continue reading Can we overcome Modernity’s acosmia? →

--- ∞ "Aliens Without Forms" (pdf) - Sarah Ann Wells (2018) Sarah Ann Wells teaches comparative literature and cinema at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She works at the intersection of film and media studies, the historical avant-gardes, theories of labor, and science fiction, with a special interest in South America, the Soviet Union, and … Continue reading Aliens Without Forms →

--- ∞ "All You Need Is LOVE" (pdf) - Yves Citton, 2018 Yves Citton is professor of Literature and media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis. He previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (1992-2003) and at the Université Grenoble Alpes (2003-2017). He is co-editor of the journal Multitudes. He recently published Contre-courants politiques (2018), Médiarchie(to be translated into English … Continue reading All you need is LOVE →

-- ∞ "Inner Canal Zones: Cine-District. October 15, 2075" (pdf) - Drew S. Burk Drew S. Burk is a writer, editor, and translator of contemporary French thought. He was a founding member of Univocal Publishing, http://www.univocalpublishing.com/ and is currently a consulting editor with University of Minnesota Press for the continuation of Univocal as a Series, … Continue reading Inner Canal Zones: Cine-District. October 15, 2075 →

--- ∞ "Light Against Light" (pdf) - Georges Didi-Huberman, 2018 (2014) Translation: Lia Swope Mitchell Born in 1953, Georges Didi-Huberman is philosopher and art historian, he teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Curator of exhibitions such as L’Empreinte (Paris, 1997), Fables du lieu (Tourcoing, 2001), Atlas (Madrid-Karlsruhe-Hamburg, 2010-2011), Nouvelles histoires de … Continue reading Light against Light →

--- ∞ "Autopsy Compulsion" (pdf) - Arne De Boever (2018) Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also directs the MA Aesthetics and Politics program. He is the author of States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel (2012), Narrative Care (2013), … Continue reading Autopsy Compulsion →

  (Dan Mellamphy, 2018) A lienocene[1] would be a kainós,[2] a new age qua era, the (pre)dominant character of which would be linked to links [[‘liens’ in the lingua franca]]: an era the (pre)dominant arena of which would be the concourse[3] of connections, of connectivity. This is an age, of course, of ‘coursing’ [[that is, … Continue reading A lien°cene →

  ∞ "Dreaming in the Large Magellanic Cloud" (pdf) - Michel Cassé, 2018 Translation: Cindy Terrafere. I thank Monique Allewaert for her help. Michel Cassé is a French  astrophysicist, writer, and poet. He works at CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique), and at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and specializes nucleosynthesis and quantum mechanics. Amongst others … Continue reading Dreaming in the Large Magellanic Cloud →

  ∞ "Infra-Terrestrial Journey with the Aboriginal Spirits of the Earth" (pdf) - Barbara Glowczewski, 2018 Translation: Frédéric Neyrat. I thank Lewis Freedman for his help. Barbara Glowczewski has Professorial research tenure at CNRS (http://las.ehess.fr/index.php?1716). She is the author of numerous books and articles. For over 40 years has advocated for Australian Aboriginal creativity through a … Continue reading Infra-Terrestrial Journey →