I Was More American than the Americans - Sylvere Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien Grau

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Sylvere Lotringer Donatien Grau

I Was More American than the Americans - Sylvere Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien Grau

Sylvere Lotringer, Donatien Grau, Peter Behrman De Sine

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Diaphanes AG
29 September 2021

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A personal take on French Theory by one of the people who invented it.

In the mid-1970s, Sylvère Lotringer created Semiotext(e), a philosophical group that became a magazine and then a publishing house. Since its creation, Semio-text(e) has been a place of stimulating dialogue between artists and philosophers, and for the past fifty years, much of American artistic and intellectual life has depended on it. The model of the journal and the publishing house revolves around the notion of the collective, and Lotringer has rarely shared his personal journey: his existence as a hidden child during World War II; the liberating and then traumatic experience of the collective in the kibbutz; his Parisian activism in the 1960s; his time of wandering, that took him, by way of Istanbul, to the United States; and then, of course, his American years, the way he mingled his nightlife with the formal experimentation he invented with Semiotext(e) and with his classes. Since the early 2010s, Donatien Grau has developed the habit of visiting Lotringer during his trips to Los Angeles; some of their dialogs were published or held in public. This book is an entry into Lotringer's life, his friendships, his choices, and his admiration for some of the leading thinkers of our times. The conversations between Lotringer and Grau show bursts of life, traces of a journey, through texts and existence itself, with an unusual intensity.

By: Sylvere Lotringer, Donatien Grau, Peter Behrman De Sine
Imprint: Diaphanes AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 7mm, Width: 4mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 114g
ISBN: 9783035803655
ISBN 10: 303580365X
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 29 September 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sylvere Lotringer is the founder of Semiotext(e), the legendary journal and publishing house that helped to define what has become known as French Theory. As a philosopher, filmmaker, author, and teacher, he has played a crucial role in the culture of artists and creatives for the last fifty years. Donatien Grau is a scholar and author. He currently serves as head of contemporary programs at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, and as chair of the Association Pierre Guyotat. Peter Behrman de Sinety teaches English at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. His translations have been published by Harper's Magazine, The Cahier Series, and the New York Review Books.

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I Was More American than the Americans - Sylvere Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien Grau

Sylvere Lotringer, Donatien Grau, Peter Behrman De Sine

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