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Such Beautiful Debris

by Géraldine Sfez, 16 February

About: Alain Schnapp, Une histoire universelle des ruines. Des origines aux Lumières, Seuil
Review
Artistic Representations of Scottish Identity

by Marion Amblard, 15 September 2021

In her latest book, Viccy Coltman explores the evolution of Scottish identity in the long 18th century through the lens of...
Dossier
Summer Mix

by The editorial team, 19 July 2021

Books & Ideas is slowing down for the summer and will be back at the end of August. In the meantime, here is a selection...

Articles

Interview
Utopia, Dystopia

by Ophélie Siméon, 17 May 2021

An Interview With Gregory Claeys
Review
Becoming Assemblies in Contemporary Syria

by Anne-Marie McManus, 22 February 2021

About: Mohamad Omran, Odai al-Zoubi, Jamhara/Assemblage. Dark Nights Onto Rolling Waves, Ettijahat Independent Culture, Goethe Institute, 2019
Review
From the Order of Nature to Social Order

by Laurent Folliot, 1 February 2021

About: Jacques Rancière, Le temps du paysage. Aux origines de la révolution esthétique, La Fabrique
Interview
U.S. Hip-Hop Studies: Formation, Flow and Trajectory

by Séverin Guillard, 30 November 2020

An Interview with Murray Forman
Review
The Apocalypse Is Now

by Stéphanie Posthumus, 23 November 2020

About: Jean-Paul Engélibert, Fabuler la fin du monde. La puissance critique des fictions d’apocalypse, La Découverte
Review
When Art Colonises

by Guillaume Mazeau, 28 September 2020

About: Anne Lafont, L’art et la race. L’Africain (tout) contre l’œil des Lumières, Les presses du réel
Essay
Against the “Grain of the Voice”

by Catherine Rudent, 6 July 2020

Studying the voice in songs
Essay
How Fiction Can Help Us Navigate the Pandemic

by Chandra Mukerji, 2 July 2020

The Decameron and the Black Death
Review
The Invisible Museum

by Yaël Kreplak, 16 April 2020

About: Vincent Antonin Lépinay, Art of Memories. Curating at the Hermitage, New York, Columbia University Press, 2019.
Review
Tests in Aesthetics

by Jacques Morizot, 24 February 2020

About: Florian Cova and Sébastien Réhault (eds), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics, Bloomsbury Academic
Review
Sontag as Metaphor

by Benjamin Balint, 13 February 2020

About: Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work, Ecco
Review
Collectors, Dealers and Artists

by Marion Amblard, 6 February 2020

About: Paolo Coen (ed.), The Art Market in Rome in the Eighteenth Century. A Study in the Social History of Art, Brill
Review
The Birth of Stars

by Alain Chenu, 16 January 2020

About: Sharon Marcus, The Drama of Celebrity, Princeton University Press
Review
Scottish Architectural Photography

by Clarisse Godard Desmarest, 23 December 2019

About: “Classical Edinburgh”, an exhibition at Edinburgh City Art Centre
Interview
Hacking Through Contemporary Electronic Music

by Clément Canonne, 2 December 2019

An interview with Nicolas Collins
Recension
Green Creators

by Juliette Bessette, 7 November 2019

About: Paul Ardenne, Un Art écologique. Création plasticienne et Anthropocène, Le Bord de l’Eau
Recension
The Names of Fame

by Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen, 31 October 2019

About: Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Se faire un nom. Une anthropologie de la célébrité à la Renaissance, éditions Arkhè (EHESS)
Review
Above it All

by Claude Reichler, 21 October 2019

About: Pierre-Henry Frangne, De l’alpinisme, Presses universitaires de Rennes
Review
Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus at Tate Modern

by Vanina Géré, 10 October 2019

The Draughtswoman’s Contract
Entretien
The Spirit of Bridges

by Ivan Jablonka, 29 August 2019

An Interview with Michel Virlogeux
Dossier
Music and Politics

by The editorial team, 22 July 2019

A Summer Selection, Part 2
Interview
Taking Metal Music Seriously

by Catherine Guesde, 4 July 2019

An Interview with Deena Weinstein and Gérôme Guibert
Interview
Black Men and the Choice of Masculinity

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz, 24 June 2019

An Interview with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Review
Castles and Nationhood

by Clarisse Godard Desmarest, 13 June 2019

About: Miles Glendinning & Aonghus MacKechnie, Scotch Baronial: Architecture and National Identity in Scotland, London & New York, Bloomsbury
Interview
Notre-Dame: Heritage Emotions

by Nicolas Delalande, 2 May 2019

An Interview with Nathalie Heinich
Essay
Protest Music in the Age of Trump

by Ron Eyerman, 25 April 2019

The presidential election campaign and the unexpected election of Donald Trump was cause for immediate reaction from the...
Essay
Towards an Ecological Cinema

by Olivier Dorlin, 23 January 2019

Hollywood cinema tends to represent climate change in catastrophist and sensationalistic movies. By contrast, a new type of...
Interview
Japanoise: Affect at the Edge of Music

by Edouard Degay Delpeuch, 29 November 2018

An Interview with David Novak
Review
Grand Tourism: Educational Journeys in 18^th Century Europe

by Marion Amblard, 29 October 2018

About: Paola Bianchi and Karin Wolfe eds., Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour, Cambridge University Press
Review
When Creativity Becomes the Watchword

by Olivier Alexandre, 22 October 2018

About: Andreas Reckwitz, The Invention of Creativity, Polity
Review
Audio-power

by Loïc Bertrand, 4 October 2018

About: Juliette Volcler, Contrôle. Comment s’inventa l’art de la manipulation sonore, La Découverte
Review
Scotland: Nation, Enlightenment and Empire

by Clarisse Godard Desmarest, 13 September 2018

About: The Remaking of Scotland: Nation, Migration, Globalisation 1760-1860, an exhibition presented in Edinburgh at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 16 June 2018 – 27 June 2021
Review
What is Literature for?

by Judith Lyon-Caen, 27 August 2018

About: Florent Coste, Explore. Investigations littéraires, Questions théoriques
Review
The Mechanics of the Gaze

by Carl Havelange, 23 April 2018

About: Delphine Gleizes & Denis Reynaud (éd.), Machines à voir, PUL
Review
Everyone’s a Collector!

by Olivier Godechot, 19 April 2018

About: Luc Boltanski & Arnaud Esquerre, Enrichissement. Une critique de la marchandise, Gallimard.
Review
Why Do We Restore Artworks and Many Other Objects?

by Bernard Sève, 15 March 2018

About: Jean-Pierre Cometti, Conserver/ Restaurer. L’œuvre d’art à l’époque de sa préservation technique, Gallimard
Review
Digital Literature

by Florent Coste, 5 February 2018

About: Franco Moretti (ed.), La littérature au laboratoire, Ithaque
Review
What’s in a ‘Chrononyme’?

by Vanessa R. Schwartz, 22 January 2018

About: Dominique Kalifa, La véritable histoire de la Belle Époque, Fayard
Review
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Spinoza

by Steven Nadler, 8 January 2018

About: Maxime Rovere, Le clan Spinoza, Flammarion
Review
Scottish Art: Then and Now

by Clarisse Godard Desmarest, 5 January 2018

About: Tom Normand, ed., Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art 1540 to Now Collected by the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, The Royal Scottish Academy

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