Product Description: Régis Debray is one of France’s leading intellectuals, whose life has intersected with key moments of the twentieth century.In this explosive memoir, Debray recounts his journey from Louis Althusser and the Parisian lecture theatres, to Cuba and the revolution of the 1960s...read more

Product Description: In a scathingly funny update of Jonathan Swift's greatest satire, one of France's leading philosophers observes that modern society is burdened by numerous questions of care for the elderly. How to pay for their staggering medical bills? How to ensure their ethical treatment? How to simply house them all? It's more than the resources of our culture can handle, says Règis Debray-and it's making life difficult for everyone else...read more

Product Description: En su polémica obra contra la filosofía posmoderna francesa, Imposturas intelectuales, en la que denunciaban el uso metafórico de nociones científicas a modo de argumentos de autoridad, Alan Sokal y Jean Bricmont criticaron, entre otros muchos, a Régis Debray, sobre todo por su empleo del teorema de Gödel...read more

Product Description: Written by fictional character "Xavier de C***" as a plea to an American president, Empire 2.0 is a scorching satire of totalitarianism. In it, the hero, a Frenchman, renounces his citizenship to become an American. This breezy book argues that resistance to America's overwhelming power is futile and that to survive, Europe must allow itself to be annexed by the U...read more

Product Description: Lejos de la sociología de los media, con la que se la confunde a menudo, el objeto de la mediología son las interacciones, pasadas y presentes, entre técnica y cultura. Se trata de confrontar o, mejor dicho, reconciliar, esos dos campos, tradicional y peligrosamente opuestos...read more

Product Description: An examination of the difference between communication and transmission that stresses technologies and institutions long overlooked in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Una insólita trayectoria ileológica y política que lo lleva desde la Cuba recolucionaria hasta las cárceles bolivianas y el Chile socialista, brillante en su contenido y de una aplastante sinceridad.

Product Description: Régis Debray expone aquí las principales características del sistema republicano. Explica las ventajas e inconvenientes de cada tipo de república, su relación con la democracia, la separación de poderes, así como la necesidad de educación y laicismo...read more

Product Description: Agnieszka Holland's Olivier, Olivier has been described as "perverse" and "subversive" by some, and as "profoundly religious" by others. It is a family tragedy, a tale of assumed identities and debts that must be repaid. Made in France in 1992, Olivier, Olivier was based on a newspaper account of the disappearance of a nine-year-old boy in a small French town, and his supposed return as a teenager six years later...read more

In this volume Régis Debray sums up over a decade of his research and writing on the evolution of subjects of communication and the technologically transmitted interventions of the modern intelligentsia in France. Media Manifestos announces the battle-readiness of a new sub-discipline of the sciences humaines: “medialogy.” Scion of that semiology of the sixties linked with the names of Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco—and affiliated trans-Atlantically to the semiotics of C.S. Pierce and media analyses of Marshall McLuhan (“media is message”)—“mediology” is in dialectical revolt against its parent thought-system. Determined not to lapse back into the uncritical empiricism and psychologism with which semiology broke, mediology is just as resolved to dispel the cult or illusion of the signifier as the be-all-and-end-all, slough off the scholasticism of the code, and recover the world—in all its mediatized materiality. In this enterprise its ally is the work of French historians of mentalités, of the hard and evolutionary sciences, and of the technologies of transmission (from stylus and clay to quill and parchment to press and paper to mouse and screen).Written with Debray’s customary brio, Media Manifestos is no mere contribution to the vogue of “media studies.” It remains steeped in the intellectual culture of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault, indebted to the neolithic anthropology of Leroi-Gourhan and the study of science and technology of Serres and Latour, informed by the material histories of the Annales school, yet plugged into the audiovisual culture of today’s “videosphere” (as against the printerly “graphosphere” of yesterday, and the scriptorly “logosphere” of the day before that). Debray’s work turns a neologism (“mediology”) into a tool-kit with which to rethink the whole business of mediation from the city-state to the internet.  (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this elegant and original book, Regis Debray argues that for two hundred years the defeats of the left have stemmed from its failure to understand what it likes to call the ‘national question’, while equally its successes have grown from an unacknowledged liaison with the ‘unreal reality’ of the nation...read more

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Product Description: Régis Debray’s major new work is an exploration of the foundations and limits of political discourse and action. Focusing, with his familiar verve and fluency, on the mechanism through which ideologies mobilize historical subjects, Debray argues that there is a common pattern in all great political or religious movements...read more