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Paul Valéry: Robinson

Paul Valéry
Robinson

Gustave Thibon: L’équilibre et l’harmonie

Gustave Thibon
L’équilibre et l’harmonie

Auguste Perret: M. Auguste Perret nous dit…

Auguste Perret
M. Auguste Perret nous dit…

Essay CVIII

François-René de Chateaubriand: Mémoires d’outre-tombe

François-René de Chateaubriand
Mémoires d’outre-tombe

Andrei Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time

Andrei Tarkovsky
Sculpting in Time

Jean Giono: Apprendre à voir

Jean Giono
Apprendre à voir

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Lettre au général X

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lettre au général X

Hannah Arendt: Between Past and Future

Hannah Arendt
Between Past and Future

Charles Péguy: Note conjointe

Charles Péguy
Note conjointe

Jean-Marc Jancovici: L’université pour tous, évidemment

Jean-Marc Jancovici
L’université pour tous, évidemment

Hassan Fathy: Tradition’s Role

Hassan Fathy
Tradition’s Role

Alberto Magnaghi: Società dei territorialisti/e

Alberto Magnaghi
Società dei territorialisti/e

André Corboz: The Land as Palimpsest

André Corboz
The Land as Palimpsest

Essay XCVIII

Aldous Huxley: Progress

Aldous Huxley
Progress

Essay XCVII

Jacques Tati: Observer

Jacques Tati
Observer

Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle II

Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle II

Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism

Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism

Émile Zola: Le parti de l’indignation

Émile Zola
Le parti de l’indignation

Essay XCIII

Tom Stoppard: Arcadia

Tom Stoppard
Arcadia

T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land

Georges Bernanos: La France contre les robots

Georges Bernanos
La France contre les robots

Eugène Ionesco: Rhinocéros

Eugène Ionesco
Rhinocéros

Essay LXXXIX

Sigmund Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Sigmund Freud
Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Essay LXXXVIII

Simone de Beauvoir: La Vieillesse

Simone de Beauvoir
La Vieillesse

Essay LXXXVII

Raoul Vaneigem: Comments against Urbanism

Raoul Vaneigem
Comments against Urbanism

Essay LXXXVI

Erwin Schrödinger: What is Life?

Erwin Schrödinger
What is Life?

Essay LXXXV

Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Joseph Schumpeter
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Essay LXXXIV

Frédéric Lordon: The Economic Catastrophe as a Passionate Event

Frédéric Lordon
The Economic Catastrophe as a Passionate Event

Essay LXXXIII

Bernard Stiegler: The Age of De-proletarianisation

Bernard Stiegler
The Age of De-proletarianisation

Essay LXXXII

Pierre Bourdieu: Sur la télévision

Pierre Bourdieu
Sur la télévision

Essay LXXXI

Lewis Mumford: The Case Against “Modern Architecture”

Lewis Mumford
The Case Against “Modern Architecture”

Félix Guattari: Pour une refondation des pratiques sociales

Félix Guattari
Pour une refondation des pratiques sociales

Essay LXXIX

Mikhail Bakunin: What is Authority?

Mikhail Bakunin
What is Authority?

Essay LXXVIII

Meadows, Meadows, Randers & Behrens III: The Limits to Growth

Meadows, Meadows, Randers & Behrens III
The Limits to Growth

Essay LXXVII

Célestin Freinet: L’École moderne

Célestin Freinet
L’École moderne

Essay LXXVI

Paul Lafargue: Le Droit à la paresse

Paul Lafargue
Le Droit à la paresse

Michel de Certeau: L’Invention du quotidien

Michel de Certeau
L’Invention du quotidien

Essay LXXIV

Françoise Choay: L’Allégorie du patrimoine

Françoise Choay
L’Allégorie du patrimoine

Essay LXXIII

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft

Essay LXXII

Milan Kundera: L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être

Milan Kundera
L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être

Emil Cioran: Histoire et Utopie

Emil Cioran
Histoire et Utopie

Gustave Flaubert: Bouvard et Pécuchet

Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard et Pécuchet

Alfred de Vigny: La Mort du Loup

Alfred de Vigny
La Mort du Loup

Essay LXVIII

Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays

Essay LXVII

Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience

Ivan Illich: Dwelling

Ivan Illich
Dwelling

Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Voyage au bout de la nuit

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Voyage au bout de la nuit

Georges Perec: Les Choses

Georges Perec
Les Choses

Essay LXIII

André Gorz: The social ideology of the motorcar

André Gorz
The social ideology of the motorcar

Martin Heidegger: The Question Concerning Technology

Martin Heidegger
The Question Concerning Technology

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education

Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man under Socialism

Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man under Socialism

Bernard Rudofsky: Architecture Without Architects

Bernard Rudofsky
Architecture Without Architects

Essay LVIII

Simone Weil: Uprootedness

Simone Weil
Uprootedness

Michel Houellebecq: Building Shelves

Michel Houellebecq
Building Shelves

Bruno Latour: A Cautious Prometheus?

Bruno Latour
A Cautious Prometheus?

Georges Bataille: The Psychological Structure of Fascism

Georges Bataille
The Psychological Structure of Fascism

Errico Malatesta: L’Anarchia

Errico Malatesta
L’Anarchia

Max Stirner: The False Principle of Our Education

Max Stirner
The False Principle of Our Education

Paul Valéry: Remarks on Intelligence

Paul Valéry
Remarks on Intelligence

Jean Baudrillard: The Conspiracy of Art

Jean Baudrillard
The Conspiracy of Art

Bruno Latour & Vincent-Antonin Lépinay: Invention before Accumulation

Bruno Latour & Vincent-Antonin Lépinay
Invention before Accumulation

Hannah Arendt: Heidegger the Fox

Hannah Arendt
Heidegger the Fox

Essay XLVIII

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Letters to A.N. Maikov

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Letters to A.N. Maikov

Essay XLVII

Simone Weil: The Iliad, or The Poem of Force

Simone Weil
The Iliad, or The Poem of Force

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: The Desiring-Machines

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
The Desiring-Machines

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: What is Property?

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
What is Property?

Umberto Eco: The Structure of Bad Taste

Umberto Eco
The Structure of Bad Taste

Essay XLIII

Paul Valéry: Fluctuations on Freedom

Paul Valéry
Fluctuations on Freedom

Giorgio Agamben: What is an Apparatus? and Other Essays

Giorgio Agamben
What is an Apparatus? and Other Essays

Eugene Victor Walter: Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment

Eugene Victor Walter
Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment

Fernando Pessoa: The Anarchist Banker

Fernando Pessoa
The Anarchist Banker

Essay XXXIX

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin: Law and Authority

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
Law and Authority

Essay XXXVIII

William S. Burroughs: The Electronic Revolution

William S. Burroughs
The Electronic Revolution

Essay XXXVII

Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Savage Mind

Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Savage Mind

Essay XXXVI

Lev Shestov: All Things Are Possible

Lev Shestov
All Things Are Possible

Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince

Essay XXXIV

Paul Virilio: Speed and Politics

Paul Virilio
Speed and Politics

Essay XXXIII

Charles Jencks: Meaning in Architecture

Charles Jencks
Meaning in Architecture

Essay XXXII

Roland Barthes: Mythologies

Roland Barthes
Mythologies

Arthur Schopenhauer: On the Sufferings of the World

Arthur Schopenhauer
On the Sufferings of the World

Peter Sloterdijk: The Crystal Palace

Peter Sloterdijk
The Crystal Palace

Jean Baudrillard: The System of Objects

Jean Baudrillard
The System of Objects

Essay XXVIII

Manfredo Tafuri: Architecture and Utopia

Manfredo Tafuri
Architecture and Utopia

Essay XXVII

Alain Badiou: Ethics, An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Alain Badiou
Ethics, An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Jeremy Bentham
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

David Graeber: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

Henri Lefebvre: The Right to the City

Henri Lefebvre
The Right to the City

Essay XXIII

Thorstein Bunde Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Bunde Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class

Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle I

Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle I

Jean-Luc Godard: My Approach in Four Movements

Jean-Luc Godard
My Approach in Four Movements

Herman Melville: Bartleby, The Scrivener

Herman Melville
Bartleby, The Scrivener

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

George Orwell
Politics and the English Language

Essay XVIII

Mark Twain: Letters from the Earth

Mark Twain
Letters from the Earth

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Twilight of the Idols

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols

Benedictus de Spinoza: Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order

Benedictus de Spinoza
Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Nomadology: The War Machine

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
Nomadology: The War Machine

Michel Foucault: Security, Territory, Population

Michel Foucault
Security, Territory, Population

Simone de Beauvoir: The Present & The Future

Simone de Beauvoir
The Present & The Future

Paul Valéry: Regards sur le monde actuel

Paul Valéry
Regards sur le monde actuel

Walter Benjamin: Experience and Poverty

Walter Benjamin
Experience and Poverty

Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King Jr.
I Have a Dream

Félix Guattari: The Three Ecologies

Félix Guattari
The Three Ecologies

Albert Camus: Nobel Prize Speech

Albert Camus
Nobel Prize Speech

Pierre Bourdieu: The Forms of Capital

Pierre Bourdieu
The Forms of Capital

Gilles Deleuze & Michel Foucault: Intellectuals and Power

Gilles Deleuze & Michel Foucault
Intellectuals and Power

Noam Chomsky: Notes on Anarchism

Noam Chomsky
Notes on Anarchism

Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism

David Graeber: Debt: The First 5’000 Years

David Graeber
Debt: The First 5’000 Years

Karl Marx: Das Kapital

Karl Marx
Das Kapital

Bernard de Mandeville: The Fable of the Bees

Bernard de Mandeville
The Fable of the Bees