Anatole Jakovsky, Alphonse Allais: Le Tueur a Gags (Le Quatre Jeudis, 1955); Sigmund Freud, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, ed. James Strachey (W. W. Norton, 1960).
Barnett Newman, introduction to Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Grove Press, 1970).
Alberto Toscano, “The Open Secret of Real Abstraction,” Rethinking Marxism 20, no. 2 (2008). In his French Theory in America, Sylvère Lotringer locates in structuralism—Claude Levi-Strauss’s structural anthropology and its debt to Russian formalist linguistics in particular—the origin of the category of real abstraction as a free-floating term in both the academy and in general. Sylvère Lotringer, French Theory in America (Routledge, 2001). See also Alexander Galloway’s work on “new French theory.”
Jacques Derrida, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, trans. Alan Bass (University of Chicago Press, 1980).
Michel Foucault, Les Mots et Les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines (Gallimard, 1966), translated as The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences; Daniel Buren, Limites Critiques (Presses Du Reel, 1970).
Achim Hochdorfer, “A Hidden Reserve: Painting from 1958 to A965,” Artforum 47, no. 6 (February 2009).
Hochdorfer, “Hidden Reserve.”
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson Smith (Zone Books, 1995), thesis 191.
Karl Marx, “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof,” section 4 in Capital, vol. 1 (Penguin, 2013).
See, for example, Piero Manzoni’s Merda d’artista: That Scandalous Can, ed. Luca Bochioni (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025). See also my “Materialist Conceptualism: On the Indivisibility of Intellectual and Manual Labour in Piero Manzoni’s Merda d’artista” in the same volume.
Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, trans. Ariana Reines (Semiotext(e), 2012).
Jean Baudrillard, La Société de consommation: Ses mythes, ses structures (Gallimard, 1970).
Alexei Penzin, “Facticity Today,” e-flux Notes, January 29, 2025 →.