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Eric Alliez
Eric Alliez (b. 1957), philosopher, is a Professor at University of Paris 8 and at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University (London). He has been visiting professor in many universities worldwide (Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Warwick, Karlsruhe, Weimar, Oslo,...). He completed his Doctorat d’État under the direction of Gilles Deleuze (Les Temps Capitaux [Capital Times], Cerf, 1991, Minnesota Press, 1996, preface by Deleuze). The publication will be followed by a large number of books, essays and articles aimed at problematizing the relationships between philosophy, art and politics within and after Deleuze and Guattari: among these, La Signature du Monde (The Signature of the World), Cerf, 1993, or Signature of the World: What Is Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy?, Continuum, 2004; Gilles Deleuze. Une vie philosophique, ed., Synthélabo, 1998; (with Peter Osborne) ‘Philosophy and Contemporary Art After Adorno and Deleuze – An Exchange’, Gest: Laboratory of Synthesis, 1, 2008; The Guattari Effect, ed., Continuum, 2011; Undoing the Image: Of Contemporary Art (with the collaboration of J.-C. Bonne, Le Passage, 2013 / Engl. transl. in 5 vol., Urbanomic, 2017–2021) is the last volume of a trilogy focused on a critique of aesthetics, which also includes The Brain-Eye. New Histories of Modern Painting (with the collaboration of J.-C. Martin, Vrin, 2007 / Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017) and La Pensée-Matisse (co-authored with J.-C. Bonne, Le Passage, 2005). His latest publications (with Maurizio Lazzarato) undertakes a critical analysis of the 68’ thought in the light of a counter-history of capitalism (Wars and Capital, Semiotext(e), 2018; Wars and Revolution, forthcoming).