The Game of The Real: Art and The Knowledge Project

Tristan Garcia and Anna Longo

February 18, 2021 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST

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Tristan Garcia received his PhD for a thesis on the subject of « representation » in human arts, which he had written under the supervision of Sandra Laugier. In the same year, he published his first novel, awarded by the Flore Prize and translated in English under the title : Hate : a romance (Faber & Faber, 2011). Working in the University of Amiens, he continued his career as a novelist and conducted further research in metaphysics, leading to the publishing of Forme et objet. Un traité des choses in 2011. He wrote critical essays about animal suffering (“Nous, animaux et humains,” 2011) or TV series (“Six Feet Under. Nos vies sans destin,” 2012). Form and Object: A Treatise on Things, was translated by Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn, at Edinburgh University Press (2014). The Life Intense, always at EUP, was translated in 2018, and We Ourselves in 2021.

Anna Longo obtained her PhD in Aesthetics Philosophy at University Paris 1. She is a member of the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris). She has taught at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne and CalArts (Los Angeles), and she is an instructor at the New Centre for Research and Practice. Her research crosses several fields such as metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics. She has been the author and editor of several books such as Le paradoxe de la finitude (2019); La genèse du transcendantal (2017); Breaking the Spell: Speculative Realism under Discussion (2015); Time without Becoming (2014), Divenire della conoscenza: estetica e contingenza del reale (2013).