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  • 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.

  • 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
  • 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.

  • Collected Works Alice Ceresa

    Collected Works Alice Ceresa

    Edited by Marie Glassl.

    Alice Ceresa, born in Switzerland in 1923 was a swiss-italian translator, journalist, and writer. She live in Rome until her death in 2001 where she was as close to the literary avant-garde as she was to the feminist movement. Her writing questions the linguistic and political hegemony of an exclusive social “we” and aims to invent a language for that which cannot be said. Diaphanes makes both published and unpublished works by the author available in German, English, and French translation.
  • 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.
  • 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 It brings together a selection of Schürmann’s as yet unpublished lecture notes, ­written for the courses he delivered at the New School for Social Research in New York between 1975 and 1993, with previously uncollected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.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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? 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.
  • Anarchies

    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. Fidèle – à l’infini. Quand bien même dirigée par deux « philosophes », 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.
  • Last Writings of Antonin Artaud

    Last Writings of Antonin Artaud

    Artaud spent the last years of his life, from his incarceration in the psychiatric hospital of Rodez to the last month in freedom until his death in March 1948, working and writing. This collection includes numerous poems, radio works, texts on his drawings, vocal improvisations, letters, and fragments, some of which have never or only partially been published in English. Including additional new translations, this issue edited by Stephen Barber finishes the project by American poet and translator Clayton Eshleman and his collaborators to translate and publish these works in English in their entirety.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • The Future Cinema Conference Series

    The Future Cinema Conference Series

    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.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • 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.

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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. 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. 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.
  • 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.
  • minima oeconomica

    minima oeconomica

    A book series of critical analysis on modern economics.