‘The Future of the Image’ and ‘Sentence, Image, History’ were given as talks at the Centre National de la Photographie, at the invitation of Annik Duvillaret, on 31 January 2002 and 24 October 2002.
‘Painting in the Text’ originated from a talk given on 23 March 1999 at the Akademie Bildenden Künste in Vienna, at the invitation of Eric Alliez and Elisabeth von Samsonow. It also incorporates parts of ‘Les énoncés de la rupture’, a contribution to Ruptures: De la discontinuité dans la vie artistique, edited by Jean Galard (ENSBA/Musée de Louvre, 2002).
‘The Surface of Design’ was first published under the title ‘Les ambivalences du graphisme’ in the collective work Design … Graphique? edited by Annick Lantenois (Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts de Valance, 2002).
‘Are Some Things Unrepresentable?’ was first published in No. 36 of Genre humain, edited by Jean-Luc Nancy, under the title ‘L’art et la mémoire des camps’ (Autumn/Winter 2001).
All the texts have been revised for publication here.