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Sens And Tonka
Sens & Tonka is a French publishing house that was founded in 1994 by Jeanne-Marie Sens and Hubert Tonka. Publications are typically about relatively serious subjects such as architecture, the arts and politics. Authors include Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Miguel Abensour, Marcel Gauchet, Olivier Jacquemond, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Sylvère Lotringer, Philippe Di Folco, Günther Anders, Jean Baudrillard, Auguste Blanqui, Pierre Clastres, Gilles Clément, Chloé Delaume, Édouard Dor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Olivier Jacquemond, Louis Janover, Franck Laroze, Fréderic Neyrat, Léo Scheer, Paul Virilio Paul Virilio (; 4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018) was a French Culture theory, cultural theorist, Urban planning, urbanist, architect and aesthetic philosopher. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation ...... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sens and Tonka Book publishing companies of France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne-Marie Sens
Jeanne-Marie Sens (born 8 December 1937 in Paris) is a French singer, songwriter, author and editor. Biography Jeanne-Marie Sens began recording in the early 1970s, including adopting the Giani Esposito song ''Les Clowns'' in 1972, released by the Warner label the following year. Her inspiration is, at times, melancholic, poetic, and refractory in the face of an increasingly dehumanized world. In 1973, her protest song ''En plein cœur'', in which her lyrics are set to music by Jean-Pierre Pouret, achieved success and notoriety. The following year brought her another hit with the prescient and sad portrait of a child cooped up in the city: ''L’Enfant du 92e'', for which she co-wrote the lyrics with Lowery, set to the music of Belgian singer-interpreter Pierre Rapsat. Jeanne-Marie Sens gives the impression that she prefers to live in a world of imagination and fantasy, which is more beautiful than reality, and the many records she aimed at a child audience tend to confirm th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Auguste Blanqui
Louis Auguste Blanqui (; 8 February 1805 – 1 January 1881) was a French socialist, political philosopher and political activist, notable for his revolutionary theory of Blanquism. Biography Early life, political activity and first imprisonment (1805–1848) Blanqui was born in Puget-Théniers, Alpes-Maritimes, where his father, Jean Dominique Blanqui, of Italian descent, was subprefect. He was the younger brother of the liberal economist Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui. He studied both law and medicine, but found his real vocation in politics, and quickly became a champion of the most advanced opinions. A member of the Carbonari society since 1824, he took an active part in most republican conspiracies during this period. In 1827, under the reign of Charles X (1824–1830), he participated in a street fight in Rue Saint-Denis, during which he was seriously injured. In 1829, he joined Pierre Leroux's ''Globe'' newspaper before taking part in the July Revolution of 1830. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franck Laroze
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Franck can refer to: People * Franck (name) Other * Franck, Argentina, town in Santa Fe Province, Argentina * Franck (company), Croatian coffee and snacks company * Franck (crater), Lunar crater named after James Franck See also * Franc (other) * Franks * Frank (other) * Frankie (other) * Frankel, Frankl Frankl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ludwig August von Frankl (1810–1894), Austrian writer and philanthropist * Michal Frankl (born 1974), Czech historian * Nicholas Frankl (born 1971), British-Hungarian entrepreneur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Janover
Louis Janover (born 1937) is a French essayist, translator and publisher. He is a theorist of council communism. In 1956, he signed a leaflet drafted mainly by André Breton with the surrealist group, ''Hongrie, soleil levant'', supporting the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Andre Breton and Benjamin Peret, Hungary, Rising Sun', flyer of the Surrealist Group about the Budapest uprising, Nov. 1956. He was member of the Spartacus group (1961-1963) alongside Roger Langlais and Bernard Pécheur. In 1961, he signed the "Manifesto of the 121" in the first and only issue of the surrealist magazine ''Sédition'', which was also signed by André Breton, Michèle Bernstein and Guy Debord. Following the dissolution of the Spartacus group, he created and directed from 1963 to 1969 the magazine ''Front Noir'', where he collaborated with Gaëtan Langlais, a member of the Letterist International, and Jacques Moreau, a painter and engraver close to Guy Debord. Fiercely opposed to the theories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, '' A Coney Island of the Mind'' (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day". Early life Ferlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919, in Yonkers, New York. Shortly before his birth, his father, Carlo, a native of Brescia, died of a heart attack; and his mother, Clemence Albertine (née Mendes-Monsanto), of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish descent, was committed to a mental hospital shortly after. He was raised by an aunt, and later by foster parents. He attended the Mount Hermon School for Boys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloé Delaume
Chloé Delaume (; born Nathalie Dalain in 1973) is a French writer. She is also an editor and, more occasionally, a performer, musician, and singer. Her literary work, largely autobiographical, focuses on the practice of experimental literature, feminism and the issue of autofiction. Biography Born in 1973 to a French mother and a Lebanese father, Chloé Delaume spent part of her childhood in Beirut, where the Lebanese Civil War that began in 1975 eventually destroyed her home. In 1983, at ten years old, she witnessed her father murder her mother, and then kill himself. She is the niece of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. She then went to live with her grandparents, and later with her uncle and aunt. Wanting to become a teacher like her mother, she enrolled in the Modern Literature program at University of Paris X: Nanterre, Université de Paris X until her master's degree, and began an unfinished thesis on Pataphysics in the works of Boris Vian. Disillusioned with the academic syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
