Univocal
Univocal Publishing was founded by Jason Wagner and Drew Burk as an independent publishing house specializing in artisanal editions and translations of texts spanning the areas of cultural theory, media archaeology, continental philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, and more. In May 2017, Univocal ceased operations as an independent publishing house and became a series with its publishing partner the University of Minnesota Press.
Books in this Series
Solo Viola
A Post-Exotic Novel
A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers
The Lesser Existences
Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual
On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Étienne Souriau’s unique oeuvre
The Dance of the Arabian Babbler
Birth of an Ethological Theory
A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory
Afrotopia
A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century
The Decision of Desire
A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance
The Tomb of the Artisan God
On Plato’s Timaeus
A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida
Anti-Electra
The Radical Totem of the Girl
A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”
Before the Law
The Complete Text of Préjugés
Thinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard
Brouhaha
Worlds of the Contemporary
A rigorous inquiry into the question of the “contemporary” in an era of hypermediation and globalization
The Man Who Walked in Color
A renowned art historian’s careful reading of the work of American artist James Turrell
The Groove of the Poem
Reading Philippe Beck
A careful reading of one of France’s most important contemporary poets by one of today’s most engaging thinkers of aesthetics
Powers of Time
Versions of Bergson
“The philosopher neither obeys, nor commands; he seeks to sympathize.” —Henri Bergson
Language and Reality
The first book by this astounding philosopher asserts that the universe, knowledge, truth, and reality are linguistic aspects
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
A groundbreaking study on the universe of technical objects by one of France’s most important thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century.
Being a Skull
Place, Contact, Thought, Sculpturesee
A renowned art historian’s exploration of the work of the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone
Didactic Poetries
The inaugural publication in English of one of France’s most important contemporary poets
Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts
Unearthing the cumulus of transient technologies that underlie the fabric of contemporary society
A Love of UIQ
An exciting attempt by one of France’s best-known thinkers wherein he explores his thought through cinematic narrative.
Desert Dreamers
An ethnographic adventure exploring the Warlpiri and their cultural practices of “the dreaming” in relation to their societal laws, ritual art, and connection with the cosmos
The Different Modes of Existence
Exploring the aesthetic depths of the various modes of existence by one of France’s most heralded but forgotten thinkers of existential pluralism
Cartography of Exhaustion
Nihilism Inside Out
A meditation on the possibility of fighting off the exhaustion of our contemporary age of communicative and connective excess
Cosmic Pessimism
“A philosophy exists between the axiom and the sigh. Pessimism is the wavering, the hovering.”
ABC of Impossibility
An experimental text of para-philosophical fragments working toward a poetic ontology
Machinic Eros
Writings on Japan
Félix Guattari’s encounter with the “machinic eros” of Japanese culture in the 1980s
Cannibal Metaphysics
A groundbreaking vision of anthropology as the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought
Introduction to Non-Marxism
A non-philosophical examination of the possibilities and potentials for a new reading of Marxist philosophy
The History of the Devil
A fascinating exploration into the early work of the celebrated philosopher of media culture and technology, Vilém Flusser
Women Who Make a Fuss
The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf
A vibrant call to reevaluate the heritage of women thinkers inside and outside the academy
The Intelligence of a Machine
A groundbreaking early philosophy of cinema and the cinematographic apparatus
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Béla Tarr, the Time After
Exploring the concept of time in the work of one of Europe’s greatest filmmakers
Dictionary of Non-Philosophy
An insightful guide for wandering within the territory of non-philosophy
Philosophy and Non-Philosophy
The first concise explanation of non-philosophy and its relation to philosophy
Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics
An attempt at inventing a new genre of aesthetic thinking where thought itself can become a form of art
Two Lessons on Animal and Man
The increasingly influential French philosopher presents the history of philosophical discourse in regard to humans, animals, and the vegetal
Variations on the Body
Renowned philosopher Michel Serres finds the origins of knowledge in the movement of the body
Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin
An insightful philosophical investigation and reading of the concept of utopia