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September 25, 2007
Terror / Vocalisation
Collapse I and II contributor Reza Negarestani has a new text up on the Hyperstition site: Language of the Pest.
September 24, 2007
Flyers/Affiches
Il y a maintenant des affiches à télécharger pour Collapse Vol III en Français bien qu'en Anglais ici - merci à M. Anaximandrake pour la traduction.
Flyers for Collapse Vol II in both English and French are now downloadable here - thanks to M. Anaximandrake for the translation.
September 19, 2007
New Website
Welcome to the new Urbanomic website. Our hope is that by using the blog format, we will be able to update the site more regularly with information on future volumes, supplementary articles, information on connected events and publications, etc.
Please see the entry below for news of the new volume of Collapse, which will be published around mid-October.
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September 18, 2007
Collapse Volume III
Collapse Volume III: 'Unknown Deleuze' contains explorations of the work of Gilles Deleuze by pioneering thinkers in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, music and architecture. In addition, we publish in this volume two previously untranslated texts by Deleuze himself, along with a fascinating piece of vintage science fiction from one of his more obscure influences. Finally, as an annex to Collapse Volume II, we also include a full transcription of the conference on Speculative Realism held in London earlier this year.
Whilst books continue to appear at an alarming rate which claim to put Deleuze's thought 'to work' in diverse areas outside of philosophy, we submit, in the new volume of Collapse, that his philosophical thought itself still remains enigmatic, both in its detail and in its major themes. The contributors to this volume aim to clarify, from a variety of perspectives, Deleuze's contribution to philosophy: in what does his philosophical originality lie, what does he appropriate from other philosophers and how does he transform it? And how can the apparently disparate threads of his work to be 'integrated' - what is the precise nature of the constellation of the aesthetic, the conceptual and the political proposed by Gilles Deleuze, and what are the overarching problems in which the numerous philosophical concepts 'signed Deleuze' converge?
The volume includes two newly-translated articles by Gilles Deleuze along with contributions from Arnaud Villani, Thomas Duzer, Quentin Meillassoux, John Sellars, Éric Alliez & Jean-Claude Bonne, Haswell & Hecker, Robin Mackay, Mehrdad Iravanian, J.-H. Rosny the Elder, Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant and Ray Brassier.
For anyone wanting to go right to the core of Deleuzian philosophy and to experience the challenge of Deleuze's thought, the articles collected in Collapse III will provide a virtually inexhaustible treasury of insights. As the featured authors shed light on this challenge from different points of view, they produce unexpected points of convergence, providing important resources for a more complete conceptual 'portrait' of Deleuze, and suggesting further lines of thought to be investigated. For anyone looking for an alternative to the emerging orthodoxy seemingly bent on broadcasting an 'image of Deleuzian thought', Collapse III provides a wide-ranging but uniformly rigorous and innovative survey of Gilles Deleuze's thought, and an illustration of the fact that, even if it is already fashionable to evoke a 'post-Deleuzian' era, we have not yet begun to draw the properly philosophical consequences of this thought.
- Mathesis, Science and Philosophy, written by a 21 year old Gilles Deleuze, has never before appeared in print in English and is published in Collapse in a new translation. Written as an introduction to a 1946 republication of a 19th-century esoteric philosophical work by Dr Johann Malfatti de Montereggio, this text offers a fascinating glimpse, set in an unexpected context, into the themes of Deleuze's early work, as they emerge, in an already characteristically-dazzling style. Meanwhile, in the brief but illuminating 1981 interview with Arnaud Villani, Answers to a Series of Questions (also appearing here for the first time in English), Deleuze provides some tantalising intimations regarding the enduring concerns of his work over the years.
- In his own contribution to the volume, philosopher-poet Arnaud Villani (whose 1999 The Wasp and the Orchid was one of the first books to be published in France treating Deleuze's work as a whole) reflects on Deleuze's affirmation that he considered himself a 'pure metaphysician': what, precisely, does metaphysics mean for Deleuze? Through a sophisticated reading utilising the resources of aesthetics, poetics and philosophy, Villani not only defines the object of this metaphysics, but also shows clearly why it cannot be severed from its links with these other realms of thought, or from the question of the political or moral 'decision'.
- This allusion reminds us that an examination of Deleuze today would be unthinkable without reference to Alain Badiou's provocative Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, and in his article In Memoriam of Deleuze, Thomas Duzer undertakes, through a survey of the major axes of Deleuze's philosophy, to locate the precise nature of their now famous 'nonrelationship'; his 'defence' emphasises how the positive features of Deleuze's thought cannot be reduced either to a 'phenomenology' or to Badiou's polemical opposite.
- In an exclusive translated extract from their new book Matisse-Thought: Portrait of the Artist as Hyperfauve, philosopher Éric Alliez (former student of Deleuze's and author of The Signature of the World) and art-historian Jean-Claude Bonne analyse the revolution inaugurated in painting by Matisse during his ‘Fauvist’ period of 1905-6, discovering that the rigorous 'quantitative' conception of the intensive which Matisse proposes allows not only a new understanding of the significance of Fauvism for his later work, but also reaffirms the philosophical pertinence of a Nietzschean-Deleuzian thinking of intensity and extensity, the qualitative and the quantitative.
- On the basis of an examination of a 'fragment' from Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?, Quentin Meillassoux, in a philosophical tour de force, meticulously reconstructs the nature and the measure of Deleuzian 'immanence', proposing finally a 'subtractive' reading drawing on Bergson's Matter and Memory, allowing us to understand, step-by-step 'from the inside' the construction of that singular network of concepts found in Deleuze's work.
- Sound artists Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker contribute some strange and beautiful images taken from the electronic 'score' of their new sound work Blackest Ever Black, an 'introduction to synaesthesia' created using composer Iannis Xenakis's computerised UPIC system to transform contemporary images into sound. An accompanying text by Robin Mackay analyses the affinities between Xenakis's conception of a musical 'polyagogy' and Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism'.
- Examining Deleuze's famous use of the supposedly Stoic theory of Chronos and Aion in Logic of Sense, John Sellars (author of The Stoics and The Art of Living) examines just how much it owes to actual stoic theories of time, thus providing both a case-study in the Deleuzian 'ventriloquism' in the history of philosophy and an informative example of the 'stratigraphic' time in which, according to Deleuze, philosophy takes place.
- Iranian architect Mehrdad Iravanian constructs a 'graphitext' which, taking as its starting point a page from Deleuze's The Fold, undertakes a non-interpretative 'ex-pli-cation' of its content. Employing a hybrid methodology at once literal, textual and architectural, he brings to light structures secreted within the folds of the text itself.
- One of the many obscure 'personae' in the background of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, the mysterious figure J.-H. Rosny the Elder not only supplied that work's repeated formula for the nature of intensity-as-difference, but, as both philosopher and pioneering science fiction author, was also a living embodiment of the notion that 'philosophy is a kind of science-fiction': in his astonishing 1895 tale Another World, appearing here in English for the very first time, Rosny evokes an alien world of abstract lifeforms intersecting with our own, and examines with philosophical acuity the process of bringing such unknown beings within the purview of scientific knowledge.
- As if all this were not enough ... Following the 'dossier' on Speculative Realism in the previous volume of Collapse, Volume III also includes a full transcription of the colloquium of the same name held at Goldsmith's University of London in April 2007 featuring presentations by Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman and Quentin Meillassoux on the problems, and the promise, of this renewal of speculative philosophical thought. Running to well over 100 pages, this is an important and exciting document of contemporary philosophy in the making, proposing new conceptual approaches, exploring the borders between science and philosophy, and mining the history of thought for fresh insights into Nature, objectivity, and the legacy of 'correlationism'.
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COLLAPSE Volume III
October 2007.
Paperback 115x175mm 515pp (TBC)
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-2-0
THOMAS DUZER
In Memoriam: Gilles Deleuze 1925-1995
GILLES DELEUZE
Responses to a Series of Questions
ARNAUD VILLANI
'I Feel I Am A Pure Metaphysician': The Consequences of Deleuze's Remark
QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX
Subtraction and Contraction: Deleuze, Immanence and Matter and Memory
HASWELL & HECKER
Blackest Ever Black
GILLES DELEUZE
Mathesis, Science and Philosophy
JOHN SELLARS
The Truth about Chronos and Aîon
ÉRIC ALLIEZ & JOHN-CLAUDE BONNE
Matisse-Thought and the Strict Ordering of Fauvism
MEHRDAD IRAVANIAN
Unknown Deleuze
J.-H. ROSNY THE ELDER
Another World
RAY BRASSIER, IAIN HAMILTON GRANT, GRAHAM HARMAN, QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX
Speculative Realism
Collapse volume III : 'Deleuze inconnu' contient des études consacrées à l'oeuvre de Gilles Deleuze menées par des penseurs pionniers dans les domaines de la philosophie, de l'esthétique, de la musique et de l'architecture. De plus, nous publions dans ce volume deux textes de Deleuze lui-même qui n'avaient jusqu'à présent pas été traduits en langue anglaise, de même qu'une nouvelle de science-fiction 'vintage' d'un auteur qui s'avère être l'une de ses plus mystérieuses influences. Enfin, comme une sorte d'annexe au volume II, se trouve incluse la traduction complète de la conférence consacrée au 'réalisme spéculatif' qui s'est tenue à Londres au début de cette année.
Alors qu'à une allure effarante continuent de paraître des livres qui tentent de mettre 'au travail' la pensée deleuzienne dans divers domaines non philosophiques, nous affirmons, dans ce nouveau volume de Collapse, que sa philosophie elle-même reste encore énigmatique, à la fois dans son détail et dans ses thèmes majeurs. Les contributeurs de ce volume se proposent de clarifier, à partir de perspectives variées, l'apport de Deleuze à la philosophie : en quoi réside son originalité philosophique, que prend-t-il chez d'autres philosophes, comment le transforme-t-il ? De quelle manière les différents thèmes apparemment disparates de sa pensée peuvent-ils être 'intégrés' - quelle est la nature précise de la constellation esthétique, conceptuelle et politique proposée par Gilles Deleuze, et quels sont les problèmes fondamentaux vers lesquels les nombreux concepts 'signés Deleuze' convergent-ils ?
Ce volume propose donc deux articles de Gilles Deleuze récemment traduits, ainsi que des contributions d'Arnaud Villani, Thomas Duzer, Quentin Meillassoux, John Sellars, Eric Alliez & Jean-Claude Bonne, Haswell & Hecker, Robin Mackay, Mehrdad Iravanian, J.-H. Rosny Aîné, Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant and Ray Brassier.
Pour quiconque désire aller droit au coeur de la philosophie deleuzienne et faire l'expérience du défi que lance la pensée de Deleuze, les articles rassemblés dans Collapse III fourniront un trésor de pensées virtuellement inépuisable. Alors que les contributeurs mettent en lumière ce défi à partir de différents points de vue, ils produisent des points de convergence inattendus, donnant là les moyens d'un 'portrait' conceptuel de Deleuze plus poussé, et suggérant d'autres lignes de pensée à étudier.
Pour quiconque cherche une alternative à l'orthodoxie émergente qui repose apparemment sur une 'image de la pensée deleuzienne' largement répandue, Collapse III propose des enquêtes variées sur la pensée de Gilles Deleuze, qui sont toutes rigoureuses et novatrices, ainsi qu'une illustration du fait que, même s'il est déjà à la mode d'évoquer une ère 'post-deleuzienne', les conséquences philosophiques réelles de sa pensée n'ont pas encore tirées.
- Mathèse, Science et Philosophie, texte écrit à l'âge de 21 ans par Gilles Deleuze, inédit en Anglais en version imprimée, est publié ici dans une nouvelle traduction. Introduction à l'édition de 1946 d'une oeuvre philosophique ésotérique du 19ème siècle, par le Dr Johann Malfatti de Montereggio, ce texte offre un aperçu fascinant, et dans un contexte inattendu, des thèmatiques des travaux de jeunesse de Deleuze, exprimés, déjà, dans ce style fulgurant qu'on lui connaît. De même, dans un entretien bref mais instructif avec Arnaud Villani, Réponses à une série de questions (qui paraît ici pour la première fois en langue anglaise), Deleuze donne des indices extrêmement intéressants concernant les motifs récurrents de son oeuvre.
- Dans sa propre contribution à ce volume, le philosophe et poète, Arnaud Villani (dont le livre de 1999 intitulé La Guêpe et l'Orchidée fut l'un des tout premiers à traiter de l'oeuvre deleuzienne comme un tout), livre ses réflexions au sujet de l'affirmation de Deleuze selon laquelle il se considère lui-même comme un 'pur métaphysicien' : que signifie précisément la métaphysique pour Deleuze ? Grâce à une lecture sophistiquée usant des ressources de l'esthétique, de la poésie et de la philosophie, Villani ne définit pas seulement l'objet de cette métaphysique, mais montre aussi clairement pourquoi elle ne peut pas être détachée de ses liens avec ces autres domaines de la pensée, tout comme de la 'décision' politique ou morale.
- Cette allusion nous rappelle qu'un examen de la pensée de Deleuze aujourd'hui serait impensable sans faire référence à l'ouvrage provocateur de Badiou intitulé Deleuze, la clameur de l'être, et dans son article In memoriam, Thomas Duzer entreprend, grâe à l'examen des axes majeurs de la philosophie de Deleuze, de mettre en évidence la nature précise de leur désormais célèbre 'non-rapport' ; sa 'défense' montre en quoi ce qui caractérise la pensée de Deleuze ne peut être réduit ni à une 'phénoménologie', ni à l'opposé polémique de celle de Badiou.
- Dans l'extrait exclusif (traduit) de leur nouveau livre La Pensée-Matisse, Portrait de l'Artiste en Hyperfauve, le philosophe Eric Alliez (ancien élève de Deleuze et auteur de La Signature du Monde) et l'historien d'art Jean-Claude Bonne analysent la révolution inaugurée en peinture par Matisse durant sa période Fauviste de 1905-6, et montrent que la conception 'quantitative' rigoureuse de l'intensif que propose Matisse n'autorise pas seulement une nouvelle compréhension de la signification du Fauvisme pour son oeuvre ultérieure, mais réaffirme également la pertinence d'une pensée nietzschéo-deleuzienne de l'intensif et de l'extensif, du qualitatif et du quantitatif.
- Sur la base de l'examen d'un 'fragment' de Qu'est-ce que la philosophie ? de Deleuze et Guattari, Quentin Meillassoux, par un tour de force philosophique, reconstruit minutieusement la nature et l'ampleur de l' 'immanence' deleuzienne, pour finalement proposer une lecture 'soustractive' qui s'appuie sur Matière et Mémoire de Bergson, et qui nous permet de comprendre, pas à pas et 'de l'intérieur', la construction de ce réseau conceptuel singulier de l'oeuvre de Deleuze.
- Les musiciens (sound artists) Russell Haswell et Florian Hecker nous donnent à voir quelques belles et étranges images tirées de la partition électronique de leur nouveau travail sonore Blackest Ever Black, 'une introduction à la synesthésie' créée grâce au système informatique UPIC du compositeur Iannis Xenakis destiné à transformer les images en sons. Elles sont accompagnées d'un texte de Robin Mackay qui analyse les affinités de la conception de la 'polyagogie' de Xenakis avec l' 'empirisme transcendantal' de Deleuze.
- A l'occasion de l'utilisation de la théorie stoïcienne supposée du Chronos et de l'Aiôn dans Logique du sens, John Sellars (auteur de The Stoics et de Art of living) examine ce que cet ouvrage doit au juste aux conceptions stoïciennes réelles du temps, et offre ainsi à la fois l'étude d'un cas de 'ventriloquisme' deleuzien quant à l'histoire de la philosophie ainsi qu'un exemple détaillé du temps 'stratigraphique' au sein duquel, selon Deleuze, la philosophie se place.
- L'architecte iranien Mehrdad Iravanian construit un 'graphitexte' qui, prenant comme point de départ une page du Pli de Deleuze, s'engage dans une 'ex-pli-cation' non interprétative de son contenu. Grâce à à l'emploi d'une méthode hybride à la fois littérale, textuelle et architecturale, il met au jour les structures secrétées au sein des plis du texte lui-même.
- L'une des nombreuses 'personae' obscures à l'arrière plan de Différence et répétition de Deleuze, la mystérieuse figure de J.H. Rosny Aîné, n'a pas seulement apporté pas la formule 'l'intensité en tant que différence', répétée dans cet ouvrage, mais, en tant que philosophe et auteur pionnier de science-fiction, s'avère avoir été l'incarnation même de la philosophie comme 'une sorte de science-fiction'. En effet, dans son stupéfiant conte de 1895, Un Autre Monde, qui paraît ici en Anglais pour la toute première fois, Rosny évoque un monde étranger de formes de vie abstraite entrant en contact avec le nôtre, et examine avec une acuité philosophique le processus consistant à amener ces êtres inconnus dans le savoir scientifique.
- Comme si cela ne suffisait pas, à la suite du 'dossier' consacré au réalisme spéculatif constitué par le précédent numéro de Collapse, le volume III inclut également la transcription complète du colloque du même nom qui s'est tenu à la Goldsmith's University of London en avril 2007. Il y est présenté, par Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman et Quentin Meillassoux, les problèmes, et les promesses, de ce renouveau de le pensée philosophique spéculative. Sur plus de 100 pages, cet important et stimulant document sur la philosophie contemporaine en train de se faire propose des approches conceptuelles neuves, explore les frontières entre la science et la philosophie, et mettant à mal l'histoire de la pensée, donne à penser de nouvelles idées sur la Nature, l'objectivité, et l'héritage du 'corrélationisme'.
Collapse Volume II
The second volume of Collapse resumes the construction of a conceptual space unbounded by any disciplinary constraints, comprising subjects from probability theory to theology, from quantum theory to neuroscience, from astrophysics to necrology, and involving them in unforeseen and productive syntheses.
Collapse Volume II features a selection of speculative essays by some of the foremost young philosophers at work today, together with new work from artists and cinéastes, and searching interviews with leading scientists. Against the tide of institutional balkanisation and specialisation, this volume testifies to a defiant reanimation of the most radical philosophical problematics - the status of the scientific object, metaphysics and its 'end', the prospects for a revival of speculative realism, the possibility of phenomenology, transcendence and the divine, the nature of causation, the necessity of contingency - both through a fresh reappropriation of the philosophical tradition and through an openness to its outside. The breadth of philosophical thought in this volume is matched by the surprising and revealing thematic connections that emerge between the philosophers and scientists who have contributed.
- Ray Brassier (Middlesex University, author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction) gives the first full-length exposition and critical examination in English of Quentin Meillassoux's important book Après la Finitude,, which mounts a radical critique of post-Kantian philosophy on the basis of its inability to account for the literal meaning of scientific statements concerning 'arche-fossils' existing anterior to the possibility of their phenomenal manifestation.
- Building upon his thesis in Après la Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux (ENS, Paris) proposes a reprisal of Hume's problem of causation from a radical ontological persective. By affirming the absolute contingency of natural laws, Meillassoux argues for a revival of a realistic metaphysics which he calls 'speculative materialism' and brings to light a powerful new ontological concept of time.
- In an extended interview, Roberto Trotta (theoretical cosmologist, Lockyer Research Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society at the Astrophysics Department at Oxford University) describes in detail his work as a scientist engaged in surveying the 'arche-fossil', and discusses the ways in which the cross-disciplinary nature of the search for dark matter - an intense collaborative endeavour involving mathematics, astrophysics, theoretical modelling and statistics - anticipates the problematic status of its objects. The interview reveals how the process of determination of this field of research on the 'outer edge' of science, bounded equally by technological, probabilistic and logical constraints, raises questions as to the status of scientific thought and problematises its very conceptual foundations, thus emphasising its continuities with traditionally 'philosophical' concerns.
- In 'On Vicarious Causation' Graham Harman (American University in Cairo; author of Tool-Being and Guerilla Metaphysics) puts forward a new realist 'object-oriented' metaphysics which, refusing the primacy of human experience and in defiance of post-Kantian 'philosophies of access', seeks to speak for the abyssal depths of 'the objects themselves'.
- In an interview with Paul Churchland (U.Cal, San Diego) the brilliantly iconoclastic philosopher of mind and science reiterates his commitment to eliminative materialism, exploring its broad consequences for science and philosophy, and remarking key research outcomes and philosophical problems which have influenced its development.
- Clémentine Duzer & Laura Gozlan present a series of stills taken from their film Nevertheless Empire, an expressionist science-fiction noir of pestilence, biopolitics and desire.
- Artist Kristen Alvanson's photo/diagrammatic essay on the ontotheology of the Middle-Eastern graveyard examines what differences in burial practices propose as to the philosophical thinking of space and of dwelling and examines the consequences for our image of thought.
- In a continuation of his unrivalled radical questioning of the ultimate bases of the 'clash of civilisations', Reza Negarestani details, through a searching analysis of Islamic and Western theologies, how the absolute exteriority of Allah in Islam results in a particular conception of temporality, different vectors for the propogation of faith, and an immanent apocalypse which cannot be reduced to a chronological moment or a possibility of unification.
COLLAPSE Volume II
Edited by Robin Mackay
Associate Editors Damian Veal, Ray Brassier
March 2007.
Paperback 115x175mm 330pp
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-1-2
ROBIN MACKAY
Editorial Introduction
RAY BRASSIER
The Enigma of Realism
QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX
Potentiality and Virtuality
ROBERTO TROTTA
Dark Matter: Facing the Arche-Fossil (Interview)
GRAHAM HARMAN
On Vicarious Causation
PAUL CHURCHLAND
Demons Get Out! (Interview)
CLÉMENTINE DUZER & LAURA GOZLAN
Nevertheless Empire
REZA NEGARESTANI
Islamic Exotericism: Apocalypse in the Wake of Refractory Impossibility
KRISTEN ALVANSON
Elysian Space in the Middle East
Collapse Volume I
COLLAPSE Volume I
Edited by Robin Mackay.
Associate Editor Michael Carr.
September 2006.
Paperback 115x175mm 288pp.
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-0-4
ROBIN MACKAY
Editorial Introduction
ALAIN BADIOU
'Philosophy, Sciences, Mathematics' (Interview)
GREGORY CHAITIN
'Epistemology as Information Theory'
REZA NEGARESTANI
'The Militarization of Peace'
MATTHEW WATKINS
'Prime Evolution (Interview)'
'INCOGNITUM'
'Introduction to ABJAD'
NICK BOSTROM
'Existential Risk (Interview)
THOMAS DUZER
'On the Mathematics of Intensity'
KEITH TILFORD
'Crowds'
NICK LAND
'Qabbala 101'
COLLAPSE is an unprecedented conjuncture of work by leading practitioners in diverse fields. Conceived as a carefully-compiled, compendious miscellany, grimoire or as an instruction manual without referent, as a delirious carnival of sobriety, COLLAPSE operates its war against good sense not through romantic flight but through the formal insanity secreted in the depths of the rational ('the rational is not reasonable').
It aims to force unforeseen conjunctions, singular correspondences, and cross-fertilisations; to diagram abstract sensations as yet unnamed.
The journal COLLAPSE exists as the explosive, perhaps fragmentary, product of the passion for thought, unrestrained by any thematic or formal constraint, any justificatory relation to any agency whatsoever.
Le but de la revue COLLAPSE est de créer un espace conjuguant de manière inouïe des travaux par des chercheurs de pointe dans divers domaines. Conçue comme une collection disparate compendieuse et soigneusement séllectionnée, comme grimoire ou mode d'emploi sans référent, comme carnaval délirant a force de sobriété, la guerre contre le bon sens que mène COLLAPSE n'opère pas par fuites romantiques mais plutôt selon une folie formelle sécrétée dans les profondeurs de la raison ('la raison n'est pas raisonnable')
COLLAPSE veut forcer des conjonctions inédites, des correspondances singulières, des hybridations, et schématiser des sensations abstraites qui n'ont pas encore de noms.
La revue COLLAPSE existe comme le produit explosif, peut-être fragmentaire, d'une passion pour la pensée sans contrainte thématique ou formelle, libérée de tout rapport de justification a une instance quelconque.
COLLAPSE Tome I
Septembre 2006
Broché 115x175mm 288pp
Édition de 1000 copies numerotées.
ISBN 0-9553087-1-2
