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  • How does cinema imagine its own survival?

    How does cinema imagine its own survival?

    For the last 120 years, cinema has held a dominant position as a creative and entertainment medium, a cultural institution, and an audiovisual language for understanding ourselves and our world. How will cinema’s significance evolve in the years to come? How does cinema imagine its own survival, especially in response to the environmental and societal crises that pose threats to the survival of humanity and the planet? 

    The Future of Cinema Conference Series is a conference held during the Locarno Film Festival, combining scholarly and academic workshops with public talks and events. The publication series edited by Kevin B. Lee brings together the key contributions and discussions from the yearly conference as well as the audiovisual essays created during the workshop.

    By engaging broader audiences and involving prominent scholars to analyze significant shifts in film practices, the series aims to foster a dialogue that connects scholarly insights with wider audience perspectives on the evolving landscape of cinema and media.

    "Cinema—not “the movies,” or “the image,” or “television,”—but cinema, this specific project, this discipline, this practice of a certain investigation, analysis and representation of ideas, cinema belongs to the material world. It is about where we are standing now." 
    - Robert Kramer
  • Intervening Arts

    Intervening Arts

    Recently, there has been frequent talk of a ‘re-politicisation’ of the arts, which is formulated both as an observation and an expectation. But what potential do the arts have to actually intervene in social contexts or political processes? What methods are used and what effects does such intervention have on a current understanding of art? The guiding concept of ‘intervening arts’ is intended to help define the political potential of the arts more precisely.
  • FORWARD FICTION

    FORWARD FICTION

    At a time when we urgently need new narratives, resistant aesthetics and eye-opening visions, the power of fiction allows us to imagine who we could be. Radically multilingual, consistently interdisciplinary and absolutely independent. The FORWARD FICTION series wants to counter conformist regimes of meaning with a polyphonic resonance chamber, opaque media with the resistance of the book, and well-known attributions with the richness of literary forms.
  • aktion_fiktion

    aktion_fiktion

    aktion_fiktion describes a plurilingual space between poetry and politics, literature and art, the intellectual and the scenic. Curated by Marie Glassl
  • Objekte widersprechen – Objects Talk Back

    Objekte widersprechen – Objects Talk Back

    Objects Talk Back is a project about the possibilities of literature to open up new stories and relations through museum archives. International writers are invited to explore collections at the Humboldt Forum Berlin, to select an object, and write about it however they wish.

    Published by Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
  • diaphanes Broschur

    diaphanes Broschur

    »diaphanes Broschur« offers a collection of international prose writing, literary (re-)discoveries and hidden treasures originating in various different periods of time and locations in the world. Literary texts intersect with essayistic writing: essential texts in this day and age – in a handy soft cover format and permanently available for supply.

  • TransPositions

    TransPositions

    This book series features contemporary theories: the texts are written by philosophers and thinkers who see themselves emphatically in the sphere between philosophical debate and those urgently acute questions as posed in today’s wider debate.

  • Plato & Co.

    Plato & Co.

    At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willing to consider life’s “big questions,” however strange or impractical. Plato & Co. introduces children—and curious grown-ups—to the lives and work of famous philosophers, from Descartes to Socrates, Einstein, Marx, and Wittgenstein. Each book in the series features an engaging—and often funny—story that presents basic tenets of philosophical thought alongside vibrant color illustrations.
    Plato & Co.’s clear approach and charming illustrations make this series the perfect addition to any little library.

  • sequenzia

    sequenzia

    This series introduces the most influential western settings of the history of knowledge from the epistemological perspective of the history of media and culture. Scenes, objects and procedures are being analysed according to their impact on the formation and functionality of our systems of knowledge.

  • Reiner Schürmann Selected Writings & Lecture Notes

    Reiner Schürmann Selected Writings & Lecture Notes

    Edited by Francesco Guercio, Michael Heitz, Ian Alexander Moore, and Nicolas Schneider

    This edition aims to provide a broader perspective on the prolific, multifaceted, and still largely unrecognized body of work produced by Reiner Schürmann (1941–1993). It brings together a selection of Schürmann’s as yet unpublished lecture notes, ­written for the courses he delivered at the New School for Social Research in New York between 1975 and 1993, with previously uncollected essays.
    These works offer an additional avenue into the repertoire already available—including recent re-editions of his major philosophical works and of his only novel. The printed works will be complemented by a digital edition of Schürmann’s typescripts, along with transcriptions and an extensive critical apparatus.
    We hope that the Selected Writings and Lecture Notes will contribute to a renewed appreciation of the scope of Schürmann’s philosophical endeavor and help to establish him as one of those thinkers who are indispensable for the understanding of our present—or, rather, to show our present as the moment of legibility for Schürmann’s work. We are grateful to the Reiner Schürmann Estate for entrusting us with the responsibility of this work and for their full endorsement.
  • THINK ART

    THINK ART

    Think art! This means first and foremost learning to think adequately – that is, to capture in notions and arguments what is not initially articulated in the form of concepts, but rather in perceptual forms, figures, sounds, rhythms and constellations. Does art think? In contrast, this means asking whether art represents a way of thinking that is distinct from the sciences, whether it possibly generates a different, non-conceptual knowledge. Moreover, if the question of thinking belongs to philosophy, is there perhaps a secret commonality shared between the arts and their sciences, a practice of reflection pursued by both in their own particular ways?

    The Denkt Kunst series is dedicated to the cultural-theoretical potential of aesthetic processes in various formats, ranging from lecture texts to monographs and anthologies.
  • quadro

    quadro

    The quadro edition is predominantly concerned with questions of art theory and visual studies. It serves as an interdisciplinary forum of art history and visual studies on the one hand, and the literary-poetic sphere and contemporary aesthetics on the other.

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    Anarchies

    Collection dirigée par Mehdi Belhaj Kacem et Jean-Luc Nancy

    Anarchies et non anarchisme. Les ismes émoussent toujours le tranchant d’une vigueur. Ici, celle de l’an-archie au sens de Reiner Schürmann : d’une origine toujours-déjà disséminée et fracturée ; du principe de l’absence de tout principe directeur pour l’agir comme pour la pensée. Ce qui n’interdit aucunement la sympathie pour les luttes historiques héroïques des prolétaires anarchistes réels : la Commune de Paris (en-deçà de sa « récupération » léniniste), la grève générale de 1906, La Révolution espagnole, mai 68 et les situationnistes… Or une collection « philosophique » doit véhiculer au moins l’Idée d’une « politique ».

    Ces derniers guillemets veulent indiquer ce qui précise la vocation de la présente collection : anarchies, car il n’y a pas « l’ » anarchie, en quelque sens que ce soit (pas plus qu’il n’y a « le » chaos). L’anarchie qui règne dans le champ philosophique n’est pas celle de la science, celle des nouvelles pratiques érotiques n’est pas celle de la production artistique, les nouvelles formes d’anarchisme politiques ne relèvent pas de la même « absence de principe » que les tragiques apories contemporaines du droit. La dissémination – fidèle sans affiliation à la différance de Derrida – ne doit pas être un mot qui, par un tour pervers, subsume à nouveau tout ; elle doit se montrer.

    Fidèle – à l’infini.
    C’est donc de l’hétérogénéité effective, en abyme fracturé, de toutes ces pratiques et pensées an-archiques, qu’aimerait rendre raison, à sa mesure, la présente collection. Quand bien même dirigée par deux « philosophes » (chacun à sa façon très réservé envers l’assurance que semble aujourd’hui revêtir cette appellation), la collection s’ouvrira donc aux pratiques les plus diverses, les plus excitantes et les plus désorientantes de la littérature, des arts, de la pratique politique, de l’épistémologie ou de l’éthique érotique du présent.
  • PASSAGES

    PASSAGES

    Co-published with the German Center for Art History in Paris (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, DFK Paris), the collections PASSAGES and PASSERELLES bring together books in French and German on art from the Middle Ages to the present day. Both collections were founded in 1997 by Thomas W. Gaehtgens in parallel with the creation of the DFK Paris. Located in the heart of the French capital and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the institute is a forum for exchanging ideas between art historians around the world. French and German intellectual traditions engage here in a fruitful dialogue with currents of international thought, encouraging innovative and interdisciplinary research on art. The DFK Paris supports the dissemination and translation of research in the two languages by publishing the studies of researchers working at the institute as well as essays and monographs by international art historians so as to offer a diversity of methodological and historiographical approaches. Its publication programme thus covers a wide range of topics, such as artistic transfer phenomena and transregional questions, the art market, collectors and collections, architectural history, art theory, political iconography, and historical source editions.
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    PASSERELLES

    Co-published with the German Center for Art History in Paris (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, DFK Paris), the collections PASSAGES and PASSERELLES bring together books in French and German on art from the Middle Ages to the present day. Both collections were founded in 1997 by Thomas W. Gaehtgens in parallel with the creation of the DFK Paris. Located in the heart of the French capital and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the institute is a forum for exchanging ideas between art historians around the world. French and German intellectual traditions engage here in a fruitful dialogue with currents of international thought, encouraging innovative and interdisciplinary research on art. The DFK Paris supports the dissemination and translation of research in the two languages by publishing the studies of researchers working at the institute as well as essays and monographs by international art historians so as to offer a diversity of methodological and historiographical approaches. Its publication programme thus covers a wide range of topics, such as artistic transfer phenomena and transregional questions, the art market, collectors and collections, architectural history, art theory, political iconography, and historical source editions.
  • booklet

    booklet

    Television series are nowadays worlds apart from the ordinary »television« experience with respect to both medial and aesthetic quality. They are about to outstrip the movie industry: as the subject of conversation, as a record of contemporary issues of relevance, as time base, and as a significant part of pop culture.

    This book series subsequently offers the one piece missing in a DVD box: the literary backup to the series.

  • Bilder-Diskurs

    Bilder-Diskurs

    This book series looks at the way we interpret images, artefacts and architecture and how this interpretation affects ›reality‹ due to the correlation between visual, linguistic and performative aspects. The focus is on those historic concepts that illustrate the tension and ambivalence between the different aspects.

  • Fiction

    Fiction

    Independent, unconventional, clearly defined, but not committed to a single style or ideology. The selection is decidedly subjective: we publish works that are compelling and claim a lasting place in literature beyond the mainstream.
  • Louis Marin Collected Works

    Louis Marin Collected Works

    The French philosopher, literary scholar and art historian Louis Marin (1931–1992) has had a decisive influence on theoretical discourse in France in recent decades. This edition of his works now makes his extensive oeuvre available in German in its entirety. The richly annotated and illustrated individual volumes contain a subject and context index as well as an extensive bibliography.
  • minima oeconomica

    minima oeconomica

    A book series of critical analysis on modern economics.