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
Vendredi 30 septembre 2022 – 17H30
MSH Nord – Colloque Dramaturgie des plantes
Les auteurs seront en conversation avec Flore Garçin-Marrou
A l’invitation d’Eliane Beaufils et Flore Garçin-Marrou
Jeudi 6 octobre 2022 – 16H30
Rencontres EurArtec, Cité Internationale des Arts
Les auteurs seront en conversation avec Yves Citton et C.Breteau
Vendredi 7 octobre 2022 – 10h
Maison de l’Architecture Ile de France
A l’invitation de Romain Rousseau et Léa Mosconi,
studio de projet Muter habiter penser, ENSAN
Jeudi 24 novembre 2022
Grand café – Centre d’art contemporain de Saint Nazaire
Journée d’études “Ecologie décoloniale”, à l’invitation d’Emmanuelle Chérel
Mercredi 18 janvier 2023 – 18h
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne, Université de Rennes
A l’invitation de Carmen Popescu
Press review :
Diacritik, “Nous posons la question de l’énonciation comme toujours politique”, entretien par Johan Faerber, septembre 2022
Philosophie Magazine, “Biocratie”, septembre 2022, mention de “Qui parle ?”
L’art même n°88, “Pour une Gaïacratie” Texte de Véronique Bergen sur “Qui parle ?”
Art press, Aliocha Imhoff et Kantuta Quirós in the cover of Art press, September 2022, text by Fabien Danesi
France Culture – Affaire en cours, « Donner la parole à ce qui n’en a pas », interview by Marie Sorbier, April 26 2022, about the book « Qui parle ? »
Philosophie magazine, éditorial by Jean-Marie Durand, June 2022, about « Qui parle ? »
France Culture – La Grande Table, “”Facing the climate emergency, moving from democracy to biocracy?”, interview by Olivia Gesbert, June 17, 2022
