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Imaginary Languages
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
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
On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds
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
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.
The Great Easter
Ambulation
ISBN: 9780262047081
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur wanders the streets of Paris over the long Easter weekend of 1960.
I Can't Sleep
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
Ponge, Whitten, Banksy
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
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
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
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
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...
Imaginary Languages
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
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
On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds
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
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.
The Great Easter
Ambulation
ISBN: 9780262047081
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur wanders the streets of Paris over the long Easter weekend of 1960.
I Can't Sleep
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
Ponge, Whitten, Banksy
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
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
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
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
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...