Psychoanalysts of all schools have generally dismissed and sometimes openly disapproved feminism and its critique of male universalism. While other disciplines, like sociology and anthropology, […]
Futurism: Anticipating Postmodernism. A Sociological Essay: On Avant-Garde Art And Society
The first Manifesto of Futurism was published on Le Figaro on February 20th, 1909. It was to become the first avantgarde movement in art, with […]
The Size Effect. A Journey into Design, Fashion and Media
At the end of the last century, the so-called “new technologies” started to question the process of design, production, sales and consumption through a radical […]
Althusser and Contingency
The notion of contingency plays a central role in Althusser’s attempt to recast Marxist philosophy and to free the Marxist conception of history from notions […]
Sunniness in Painting. From Edward Hopper to David Hockney
Since the middle of the twentieth century, visual art has displayed an ambivalent nature, torn between the poles of abstractionism and realism, conceptual and postmodern, […]
Pragmatism and Vagueness. The Venetian Lectures
For most early pragmatists, including the founder C. S. Peirce and L. Wittgenstein, vagueness was a real and universal principle and not a mere defect […]
Derrida-Levinas. An Alliance Awaiting the Political
Drawing on the relationship between Derrida and Levinas and on the unresolved tension between their philosophical corpuses, this book aims to offer new possible interpretations […]
Cinéma&Cie 30: Reinventing Mao. Maoisms and national cinemas
This special issue of Cinéma&Cie explores the cultural dynamics, ideological aporias and political struggles that characterize the relationship between Maoism and national cinemas, from the […]
Phenomenology and Pathography of Memory
The concept of memory has always been a crucial topic in philosophical discourse. This book re-traces the thought of major philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, […]