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Imaginary Languages

Imaginary Languages

Imaginary Languages

Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

by Marina Yaguello

Translated by Erik Butler

ISBN: 9780262547154

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
A Gallery of Recuperation

A Gallery of Recuperation

A Gallery of Recuperation

On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds

by Jaime Semprún

Translated by Eric-John Russell

ISBN: 9780262546171

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 1, 2023

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The Limit of the Useful

The Limit of the Useful

The Limit of the Useful

by Georges Bataille

Edited by Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott

Translated by Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott

ISBN: 9780262047333

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 7, 2023

The first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher's later thought.
I Can’t Sleep

I Can't Sleep

I Can't Sleep

by Lionel Ruffel

ISBN: 9783956796036

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: February 1, 2022

An attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, with references to Jonathan Crary, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin.
Three Cases of Value Reflection

Three Cases of Value Reflection

Three Cases of Value Reflection

Ponge, Whitten, Banksy

by Isabelle Graw

ISBN: 9783956795251

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: May 25, 2021

Examinations of Francis Ponge's texts on Jean Fautrier's “Hostage Paintings,” Jack Whitten's Memorial Paintings, and Banksy's auction stunt Love Is in the Bin.
The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat

The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

by Michel Leiris

Foreword by Marc Augé

Translated by Christine Pichini

ISBN: 9781635900842

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: July 2, 2019

Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.
The Infra-World

The Infra-World

The Infra-World

by François J. Bonnet

Translated by Amy Ireland and Robin Mackay

ISBN: 9780995455047

Publisher: Urbanomic

Pub Date: September 8, 2017

Traversing philosophy and the human sciences, literature, cinema, and the visual arts, this book maps out a history where all is chaos, maelstrom, and fog.
The Number and the Siren

The Number and the Siren

The Number and the Siren

by Quentin Meillassoux

Translated by Robin Mackay

ISBN: 9780983216926

Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press

Pub Date: April 6, 2012

A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés.”
Rabelais and His World

Rabelais and His World

Rabelais and His World

by Mikhail Bakhtin

Translated by Helene Iswolsky

Foreword by Krystyna Pomorska

ISBN: 9780262520249

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 15, 1971

François Rabelais essentially determined the fate of French literature, the French literary tongue, and, no less than Cervantes, the fate of world literature; yet; asserts Bakhtin, he has been the...
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