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Peter Szendy
A historical, literary, and philosophical study that transforms our understanding of reading
"Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene of…
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A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopher
As the problem of debt grows more and more urgent in light of the central role it plays in neoliberal capitalism, scholars have analyzed debt using numerous approaches: historical analysis…
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Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what apple has convinced us is the soundtrack of our lives. How does music come to inhabit us, to possess…
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Kant has taken seriously, as no one else in the history of philosophy did, the existence of extraterrestrials. Their central role in his thought allows for a new approach of…
In an exploration of the many ways that musical bodies have been trained and imagined but also concrete analyses of the ways certain of them have played, Phantom Limbs touches…
Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because…
What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to…
Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described a one hundred per cent image-space. Such an image space saturates our world now more than ever, constituting the visibility in which we live…
An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening…
By analyzing many films, by drawing on the philosophy of Lyotard, Nancy, and Derrida, this book suggest that in the apocalyptic genre, cinema is at work on its limit. Apocalypse-cinema…
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Peter Szendy (Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the National Audiovisual Institute (Ina-Grm))
Philosopher and musicologist Peter Szendy’s essays on Albanian video artist Anri Sal
Accompanying a 2019 exhibition on Albanian video artist Anri Sala (born 1974), this book gathers four essays by…
Examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The author explains his love of musical arrangement (since arrangements allow him to listen to someone…
Francois J. Bonnet (Director, Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA-GRM))
This study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a sonorous archipelago -a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped by the vicissitudes of desire…
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