Tristan Garcia: Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (2011–)
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“What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia aims to overturn 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us new insights into the world and our place in it.
Garcia’s original and systematic formal ontology of things strips them of any determination, intensity or depth. From this radical ontological poverty, he develops encyclopaedic regional ontologies of objects. By covering topics as diverse as the universe, events, time, the living, animals, human beings, representation, arts and rules, culture, history, political economy, values, classes, genders, ages of life and death, he shows that speculative metaphysics and ontology are alive and well.”
First published as Forme et objet. Un traité des choses, PUF, Paris, 2011.
Translated by Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm
Publisher Edinburgh University Press, 2014
ISBN 0748681493, 9780748681495
462 pages
On Graham Harman’s System and My Own by Garcia (2013), Harman’s response.
Interviews with Garcia: by Liam Jones (Figure/Ground, 2014), Philosophical Readings (2014).
Reviews and commentaries: Jean-Clet Martin (2012, FR, ES), Harman (Continent, 2012), Nathan Brown (Radical Philosophy, 2014).
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Comment (0)Madonna: Sex (1992)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · body, nudity, photography, popular culture, sex, sexuality
One of the most controversial books of the 1990s, now long out of print. Wikipedia has an extensive article about its production, reception and legacy. See also a recent, critical comment on the book by Isabella Rossellini.
Photographed by Steven Meisel
Art directed by Fabien Baron
Edited by Glenn O’Brien
Produced by Callaway
Publisher Warner Books, New York, October 1992
ISBN 0446517321
128 pages
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Comment (0)Mel Gordon: Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (2000–)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1920s, berlin, body, cabaret, desire, drugs, eroticism, fetish, occultism, pornography, sex, sexuality, weimar republic
This sourcebook of rare visual documents and study of pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period “Babylon on the Spree” has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture.
Publisher Feral House, Los Angeles, 2000
Expanded edition, 2006
ISBN 1932595112
303 pages
Review: Lemons (Salon, 2000).
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See also Karl Toepfer, Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935, 1997.
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