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Ascending Republic

The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France

by Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira

ISBN: 9780262549806

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 10, 2025

Why and how the French made the balloon into one of the quintessential symbols of late nineteenth-century modernity, and how the balloon's reinvention shaped the airplane's assimilation in the early years of aviation.

Dreams and How to Guide Them

The Legendary Dream Control Manual

by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys

Introduction by Phil Baker

ISBN: 9781913689407

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: February 25, 2025

The first unabridged English translation of a classic work on dreams by an author regarded as the father of lucid dreaming.

Time Machines

Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France

by Richard Taws

ISBN: 9780262049184

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 21, 2025

A riveting exploration of the relationship between art and telegraphy, and its implications for understanding time and history in nineteenth-century France.

Psychoanalytic Politics, second edition, with a new preface

Psychoanalytic Politics

Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution

by Sherry Turkle

ISBN: 9780262548175

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 23, 2024

An updated edition of the seminal book that explores why the interest in psychoanalysis in France exploded after 1968 and what it says about culture and therapy.

The Making of Grand Paris

Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century

by Theresa Enright

ISBN: 9780262549226

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.

Marseille Mix

by William Firebrace

ISBN: 9780262544078

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

A journey through the history, cultures, and societies of Marseille.

The Cinema House and the World

The Cahiers du Cinema Years, 1962–1981

by Serge Daney

Introduction by A. S. Hamrah

Translated by Christine Pichini

ISBN: 9781635901610

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: September 6, 2022

One of the greatest film critics of his generation on topics ranging from the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film.