I Was More American than the Americans

Sylvère Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien Grau
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0365-5
Verlag: diaphanes

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 118 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 114 g

In the mid-1970s Sylvère Lotringer created Semiotext(e), a philosophical group that became a magazine and then a publishing house. Since its creation Semiotext(e) has been the place for stimulating dialogue between artists and philosophers, and American artistic and intellectual life for the past fifty years has largely depended on it. The model of the journal and the publishing house revolves essentially around the notion of the collective, and its creator Sylvère Lotringer has rarely divulged his personal journey: his existence as a hidden child during the Second World War; the liberating and then traumatic experience of the collective in the kibbutz; his Parisian activism in the 1960s; his time of wandering, which 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 his classes.

Since the early 2010s Donatien Grau has developed the habit of visiting Sylvère Lotringer during his trips to Los Angeles; some of their dialogues were published or held in public. We are given an entry into Sylvère Lotringer's life, his friendships, his choices, his admiration for some of the leading thinkers of our times. The conversations show bursts of life, traces of a journey, through texts and existence itself, with an unusual intensity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grau, Donatien

Lotringer, Sylvère

Lotringer, Sylve`re

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sinéty, Peter Behrman de

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

7	-	36	Beginnings	(Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer)
37	-	49	Nietzsche–Cage	(Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer)
51	-	70	Interviews and Politics	(Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer)
71	-	84	Anatomy of Subversion	(Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer)
85	-	94	"Scenes and Stages": On Pierre Guyotat	(Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer)

Über Autor(innen)

Grau, Donatien
Donatien Grau ist derzeit Head of Contemporary Programs am Louvre, Paris, und Vorsitzender der Association Pierre Guyotat. Er ist Herausgeber und Autor mehrerer Bücher. Zuletzt erschien sein Buch über Leben und Werk Azzedine Alaïas (Actes Sud, 2020) und Living Museums. Conversations with Leading Museum Directors (Hatje Cantz, 2020).

Lotringer, Sylvère
Sylvère Lotringer In the mid 1970s he
founded Semiotext(e), a research group that became the journal and later
a publishing house. Semiotext(e) has played an essential role in the
dialogue between the art world, the world of philosophy, critical
thinking and the punk scene of downtown. Semiotext(e) affiliates meet in
clubs, on university campuses and in the desert of New Mexico. It has
accompanied Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Paul Virilio, Jean
Baudrillard, Patti Smith, John Cage, Italian revolutionaries and the
Black Panthers. Sylvère Lotringer has led a life as a theorist, editor,
filmmaker, and existential experimenter, which makes him a legendary
figure today.