Long neglected, animals have once again, especially since the 1980s, been placed at the center of contemporary art.  Against all expectations, animals serve less the cause of ecology than to reassure humans of their own status, as we are told by Marion Duquerroy, whose dissertation on this subject will be published by Presses ...

           Anne Lafont offers us a foretaste of her key new research on the genre of massacres, which she examines in a perspective that encompasses the history of scientific expeditions, territorial conquests, and eighteenth-century colonization efforts.  She blends American, European, and Caribbean images into the same corpus. Lafont admirably shows in what way representations ...

            Dorian Astor has just published a major book on Friedrich Nietzsche, La détresse au présent (Folio). No one is better qualified than he to reexamine the question of how philosophy and war relate to each other. As Astor recalls in his Introduction, “Nietzsche addresses us as a problem that has not yet been ...

         Amanda Herold-Marme, who is preparing a dissertation at Sciences Po on Spanish artists in Paris during the Francoist period returns to our seminar to examine the singular trajectory of Roberta González, an artist who worked in France beginning in the 1930s and until her death, in 1976.  Herold-Marme spots in González’s work traces of ...