Who speaks? (for non-humans)

by Aliocha Imhoff & Kantuta Quirós (PUF, 2022)

On April 20, 2022, our next book (In French only for the moment) Qui parle ? (pour les non-humains) (Who Speaks? (for non-humans)) by Aliocha Imhoff & Kantuta Quirós will be published in the “Critical Perspectives” collection of Presses Universitaires de France. 

288 pages, 13.5 x 20 cm
In bookstores on April 20, 2022
ISBN : 978-2-13-083435-9
22,00 €

The back cover: “In the 1970s, when we asked “who speaks?”, we were questioning the legitimacy of forms of authority, identity politics, science and its procedures, representative institutions, and even the history of cinema or literature. But today, in the age of the Anthropocene, the silent voice of the world has caught up with humans. Asking the question “Who is speaking?” nowadays means to enlarge the stage of knowledge and politics to all those who, because they do not have the ability to speak, were not included – animals, plants, objects or machines. Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós answer this question with a manifesto for a politics of silence that is also a cartography of its possible means: that of the processes of translation, of the new forms of citizenship, of eco-diplomacy, of attention or spokesmanship with which activists, artists and thinkers seek to give a voice to what has none.”

Available in your favorite bookstore or for example on Place des Libraires, Les Librairies, or Decitre.

First presentation to come:

Saturday, April 30, 2022 – 6pm
Encounter – Art Center of Royan
in the context of the monographic exhibition dedicated to A people is missing entitled Human more human (curator Frédéric Lemaigre)

Wednesday May 4, 2022 – 7:30 pm
Palais de Tokyo Bookshop (free entrance)
The authors will be in dialogue with Yoann Gourmel (curator at the Palais de Tokyo)

Wednesday May 11, 2022 – 7pm
Beaux-Arts de Paris
The authors will be in dialogue with Alain Berland