You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
Big L – Put it On. 1994. (Cookin Soul remix).
My flowers are reflected
In your mind
As you are reflected in your glass.
When you look at them,
There is nothing in your mind
Except the reflections
Of my flowers.
But when I look at them
I see only the reflections
In your mind,
And not my flowers.
It is my desire
To bring roses,
And place them before you
In a white dish.
The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches, Wallace Stevens
A good thing to remember is that life
is an equal amount of doughnut shops
and roadkill every day. And if you see
the deer get hit you can call the tiger
rescue group and the deer will become
tiger food. Sometimes the things
that matter to you won’t matter
to anyone but you. And that’s redemption.
The poem that means nothing to anyone
but you. Like how your life was.
[…]
Just breathe.
Karma Affirmation Cistern Don’t Be Afraid Keep Going Toward the Horror, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
carriedandheld.net (Park McAthur)
Erin Shirreff (Von Bartha)
Enshittification [is] extraction unchecked. Doctorow (newyorker)
David [Harvey]’s commitment to showing how thinking geographically (spatially, in Explanation) transforms our understanding and explanatory frameworks, which he later brings to Marx’ Capital in his path-breaking third book, Limits to Capital. Already in Explanation,David develops spatial concepts that he never abandons. Deploying philosophers of space like Cassirer, he distinguishes between absolute, relative and relational space. This last—space as a system of relations—becoming central to his framework for spatializing Marxist theory. Almost three decades later in Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference (1996; his ‘most geographical book’, personal communication) David makes relational space central to thinking space dialectically, returning to two philosophers he read for and cited in Explanation: Gottried Wilhelm Leibnitz and Alfred North Whitehead. (Verso)
Sarah Trouche (galeriemargueritemilin)
“Does anybody really know you?” might be too narrow, or too rigid, a question, with a passive construction that belies reality. Like Schrödinger’s cat, we may not settle into any particular way of being until someone studies us. Other people help us to know ourselves, working with us to create a shared idea of who we are. So, instead of asking whether we are known, it may be more fruitful to ask whether we’ve arrived, in collaboration with people we care about, at a conception of ourselves that we recognize.
[…]
“Why can he not allow the woman of his dreams to enter his dream?” Cavell asks. The answer, he thinks, is that “to walk in the direction of one’s dream is necessarily to risk the dream.” If Peter and Ellie are to really know one another, they have to merge dreams and reality. This is like “putting together night and day.” It’s scary.
Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 2024.
Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
Such things as flowers and song and you;
Still as of old his being give
In Beauty’s name, while she may live,
Beauty that may not die as long
As there are flowers and you and song.
To Kathleen, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness;
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find,
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green thought in a green shade.
The Garden, Andrew Marvell
ECHO DELAY REVERB
ART AMÉRICAIN ET PENSÉES FRANCOPHONES
Naomi Beckwith, Emma Bigé, Judith Butler, Audrey Célestine, Pauline Clochec, Huey Copeland, François Cusset, Aria Dean, Guillaume Désanges, Éric Fassin, Jackqueline Frost, Florian Gaité, Renée Green, Emmanuel Guy, Élisabeth Lebovici, Catherine Malabou, Sophie Mendelsohn, Émilie Notéris, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Camille Robcis, Tiphaine Samoyault, Adam Shatz, Mawena Yehouessi, Elvan Zabunyan
designer deValence
format 190 x 250 mm
pages 240 p.
ISBN 9782494983397
L’ouvrage est publié en coédition avec le Palais de Tokyo, en parallèle de l’exposition « ECHO DELAY REVERB » visible du 22 octobre 2025 au 15 février 2026.
Tout au long du XXe siècle, des penseur·ses, activistes et poète·sses dans la sphère francophone ont transgressé les genres et modifié les perspectives sur le monde contemporain. Néanmoins, au-delà et parfois avant leur reconnaissance en France, leurs idées ont été traduites aux États-Unis et ont servi à fabriquer des outils pour une vision critique des institutions, de l’art comme de la société, contestant des normes sociales, esthétiques et linguistiques, ouvrant à de nouvelles manières de voir et d’agir. Si le concept phare de French Theory a été défini dans les années 1990 pour évoquer la réception enthousiaste que les États-Unis ont réservé à des auteurs comme Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze ou Jacques Derrida, d’autres figures, telles que Suzanne et Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, Édouard Glissant ou encore Monique Wittig, ont été déterminantes pour le champ de l’art comme pour les études postcoloniales, féministes et de genre. C’est l’histoire de cette circulation des idées, de leur résonance et appropriation par plusieurs générations d’artistes outre-Atlantique que déploie cet ouvrage qui prolonge l’exposition éponyme conçue par Naomi Beckwith au Palais de Tokyo.
Source: ECHO DELAY REVERB – éditions B42
Diasporic Landscapes of Longing, bell hooks. 1994.
