Emanuele Coccia

Teresa Castro

Philippe Dubois

Natasha Myers

Elena Vogman

Ludovic Coupaye

Edité par Teresa Castro

Perig Pitrou

Marie Rebecchi. Textes de Roberta Agnese

Luce Lebart

Émilie Letouzey

Marie Rebecchi

Matthew Vollgraff.

La vitalité révélée par la technique

Puissance du végétal et cinéma animiste

Veena Das

Sandra Laugier

Andrew Brandel

A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that the history of detail begins with European modernity and follows a teleological course from an object of scorn to a sign of the good. In its place, they offer a history of attention to detail that draws on classical and vernacular histories and traditions found in grammar, ritual, and poetics around the world. Emphasizing detail as a method and moving between its usage as a noun (detail) and a verb (detailing) enables them to tell stories about the reassembly of detail across accidents, contingencies, and unintended consequences. From this vantage, the book argues that details are not always small and insignificant. Rather, there is a dynamic relationship between the minute and the grand, detail and surface, which makes the proliferation of details threatening to the idea of an authoritative and integrated imagination of the whole. This expanded context generates ways of conceiving detail as a conceptual and moral mode of self-formation and being toward others, both human and non-human.

Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics

A Matter of Detail

Perig Pitrou

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