I Was More American than the Americans

Sylvere Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien Grau

I Was More American than the Americans
Sylvere Lotringer, Donatien Grau, Peter Behrman De Sine
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6 Aug 2021 SW
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9783035803655
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A personal take on French Theory by one of the people who invented it. In the mid-1970s, Sylvere 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.
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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ISBN-13: 9783035803655
Published: 6 Aug 2021
Published In: Switzerland
Imprint: Diaphanes AG
Publisher: Diaphanes AG
Format: Paperback
Height: 7mm
Width: 4mm
Pages: 96

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