Images and script (in both French and English) from one of the greatest experimental films ever made by a master of the form.
The emotional and sensual, religious and erotic excitement of the whip, a crucial instrument of stimulation in devotional and sexual practices, as seen in religious, literary, and medical texts and images.
The myriad ways Beijing residents understand and nurture the good life, drawing on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.
A bold extension of Marx's Capital for the twenty-first century: at once a critique of modern finance and of the societies under its spell.
Listening across millennia, a cultural historian explores the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical-and intriguing-as the original Babel.
How the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination.
Revisiting an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations.
An original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into what it means to feel alive.