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We are pleased to invite you to an upcoming lecture by Reinhold Martin titled “Ideal-Material: Aesthetics, Technics, and Dialectics.” The lecture will take place on 21 May 2026 at 7:00 PM.

Balanced at the limits of historical materialism, this talk proposes an inexhaustible dialectic of ideal and material processes in place of a metaphysics of the material base, whether of technology or of labor. An aesthetics that regards the artwork as a medium of thought rather than of experience or of ideological expression provides a resource for the study of technical media, including architecture, within this ideal-material dialectic. To preview the implications, the talk will outline an approach to technology as symbolic form that returns to the neo-Kantian philosophy of Ernst Cassirer and moves from there through twentieth-century philosophical aesthetics toward a contemporary politics of technological meaning. This is dialectics all the way down: an incessant encounter between a world of ideas and a world of material production, both of which remain vividly real.

Reinhold Martin is a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a historian of architecture and media. His work focuses on architecture, media, urban infrastructure, postmodernism, and political economy. He is the author of several influential books, including The Organizational Complex, Utopia’s Ghost, The Urban Apparatus, and Knowledge Worlds. His latest publication is Architecture against Democracy (2024), co-edited with Claire Zimmerman.

Respondent: Jana Ndiaye Beránková

The lecture is organized in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and @suturepress as part of the ArchConcepts project (reg. no. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_010/0008600), co-financed by the European Union under the Jan Amos Komenský Operational Program.

ON WAR 📚 Book Launch

On April 16, we welcomed philosophers Étienne Balibar, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, and former Fellow Jana Ndiaye Berankova for a conversation reflecting on war, crisis, and the political challenges shaping our present moment. 👏🏼👏🏼

The event celebrated the publication of Étienne Balibar’s "Sur la guerre", the inaugural volume in Suture Press’s new series of small theory books, published in English and French and accompanied by illustrations by Nela Klímová. The book brings together three essays examining the notion of war — from Simone Weil’s reading of Homer’s Iliad to the connections between Carl von Clausewitz and Karl Marx, as well as reflections on today’s geopolitical landscape and the war in Ukraine.

This event was organized by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination @iii_snfphi and Suture Press @suturepress , with the support of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Culture Moves Europe program of the European Union.

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.

#OnWar #war #EtienneBalibar

ON WAR 📚 Book Launch

On April 16, we welcomed philosophers Étienne Balibar, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, and former Fellow Jana Ndiaye Berankova for a conversation reflecting on war, crisis, and the political challenges shaping our present moment. 👏🏼👏🏼

The event celebrated the publication of Étienne Balibar’s "Sur la guerre", the inaugural volume in Suture Press’s new series of small theory books, published in English and French and accompanied by illustrations by Nela Klímová. The book brings together three essays examining the notion of war — from Simone Weil’s reading of Homer’s Iliad to the connections between Carl von Clausewitz and Karl Marx, as well as reflections on today’s geopolitical landscape and the war in Ukraine.

This event was organized by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination @iii_snfphi and Suture Press @suturepress , with the support of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Culture Moves Europe program of the European Union.

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.

#OnWar #war #EtienneBalibar

ON WAR 📚 Book Launch

On April 16, we welcomed philosophers Étienne Balibar, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, and former Fellow Jana Ndiaye Berankova for a conversation reflecting on war, crisis, and the political challenges shaping our present moment. 👏🏼👏🏼

The event celebrated the publication of Étienne Balibar’s "Sur la guerre", the inaugural volume in Suture Press’s new series of small theory books, published in English and French and accompanied by illustrations by Nela Klímová. The book brings together three essays examining the notion of war — from Simone Weil’s reading of Homer’s Iliad to the connections between Carl von Clausewitz and Karl Marx, as well as reflections on today’s geopolitical landscape and the war in Ukraine.

This event was organized by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination @iii_snfphi and Suture Press @suturepress , with the support of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Culture Moves Europe program of the European Union.

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.

#OnWar #war #EtienneBalibar

Librairie @librairie.libralire a également la première Constellation en stock.

Étienne Balibar.
Sur la guerre. Trois interprétations.

LibraLire
116 rue St Maur. 75011 Paris

Demandez nos Constellations chez votre libraire préféré !

Le lancement de la première Constellation était bien drôle...

Réclamez le livre d'Étienne Balibar, Sur la guerre. Trois interprétations chez votre libraire.
Distribution: Presses du réel

@l.objet_trouve bookstore and coffee shop has some great books in stock on their new bookshelf.
Visit our friends in Prague!

@l.objet_trouve bookstore and coffee shop has some great books in stock on their new bookshelf.
Visit our friends in Prague!

Constellations philo plage...

Sur la guerre. Trois interprétations d'Étienne Balibar ou notre Constellation n. 1 est dans la sélection du printemps 2026 de la librairie @librairie.vrin

Sur la guerre. Trois interprétations d'Étienne Balibar ou notre Constellation n. 1 est dans la sélection du printemps 2026 de la librairie @librairie.vrin

Librairie @montenlair a un superbe nouveau livre en stock!

Étienne Balibar
Sur la guerre. Trois interprétations
Constellation n.1

Le monte en l'air
2 Rue de la Mare
75020 Paris

Librairie @montenlair a un superbe nouveau livre en stock!

Étienne Balibar
Sur la guerre. Trois interprétations
Constellation n.1

Le monte en l'air
2 Rue de la Mare
75020 Paris

Librairie @montenlair a un superbe nouveau livre en stock!

Étienne Balibar
Sur la guerre. Trois interprétations
Constellation n.1

Le monte en l'air
2 Rue de la Mare
75020 Paris

Daydreams...

L'extravagante performance d'Étienne Balibar et le moment où le lancement de la Constellation n.1, Sur la guerre est devenu un vrai spectacle théâtral.

Soutenez Suture et demandez à votre libraire préféré de commander ce livre distribué par les Presses du réel.

Étienne Balibar signe son nouveau livre Sur la guerre - Trois interprétations au lancement à Reid Hall dans le 6e. Sur la guerre constitue le premier volume des Constellations, une nouvelle série des petits livres théoriques des éditions Suture.
La Constellation n. 1 parle de Simone Weil, Clausewitz, Marx et la guerre en Ukraine.

Distribué par les Presses du réel @les_presses_du_reel
N'hésitez pas à le réclamer chez votre libraire.

@iii_snfphi

Rencontrez-nous au lancement de la première Constellation, le livre "Sur la guerre" d'Étienne Balibar ce soir à 19h à @iii_snfphi

Interventions: Étienne Balibar, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee et Jana Ndiaye Berankova.

4 rue de Chevreuse, réservation obligatoire