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Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein

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Exhibition view of Les Immatériaux, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1985.

Superhumanity
November 2016










Notes
1

Marcel Duchamp to J. J. Sweeney, quoted in Jean-Francois Lyotard, Duchamp’s TRANS/formers (Venice: The Lapis Press, 1990).

2

Philippe Parreno and Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Conversation Series 14 (Cologne: Walter König, 2008), 17.

3

Jean-François Lyotard, Discourse, Figure, trans. Antony Hudek and Mary Lydon (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).

4

Paul Virilio, "The Overexposed City," Zone 1–2, trans. Astrid Hustvedt (New York: Urzone, 1986).

5

Ibid., Parreno and Ulrich Obrist.

6

Ibid., Parreno and Ulrich Obrist.

7

For a thorough analyses of the exhibition layout, see Antonia Wunderlich, Der Philosoph im Museum: Die Ausstellung “Les Immatériaux” von Jean-François Lyotard (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008), part III, and Francesca Gallo, Les Immatériaux: Un percorso di Jean-François Lyotard nell’arte contemporanea (Rome: Aracne, 2008).

8

Jean-François Lyotard, “Qui a peur des ‘Immateriux’?” Le Monde (3 May 1985).

9

See our forthcoming Spacing Philosophy: Jean-François Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition (New York and Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017).

Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.