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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

        The first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France's most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution.
        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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