Diaphanes
Diaphanes is a Swiss publisher based in Zurich. The focus of the publishing activities are literature, philosophy, humanities and art; among the published books there are numerous translations. Michael Heitz is the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Diaphanes is not a member of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association .
Publishing history
Diaphanes was founded in 2001 by Michael Heitz and has since established itself as an independent publisher in the fields of contemporary philosophy, theory, art and cultural studies and media theory. The translation of contemporary philosophers such as Alain Badiou , Jean-Luc Nancy , Jacques Rancière , Louis Marin and Giorgio Agamben contributed in particular .
In 2008 a literature program with selected prose was launched, including Tom McCarthy's 8 1/2 million , the prose of the theater maker and co-founder of the performance group Forced Entertainment Tim Etchells and Joseph Mitchell's New York reports from the 1930s to 1950s in German . 2012 the novel was secretly secretly me forget by Angelika Meier for the longlist for the German Book Prize nomination.
In 2011 the publisher had a bestseller with the book Das Gespenst des Kapitals by Joseph Vogl, which is critical of capitalism .
The journal for media studies (ZfM) was published by Diaphanes until 2017 , which is supported and editorially designed by the Society for Media Studies . Since the publication of issue 17 (autumn 2017), the journal for media studies has been published by Bielefeld's Transcript Verlag .
program
The program includes contemporary philosophy, political theory, art theory, the history of science, cultural and media studies as well as selected essay and literary titles. It is essentially set up in rows.
The literature program includes new discoveries and rediscoveries from contemporary German and international literature in bound editions.
In a series of brochures, Diaphanes also publishes literary and essayistic texts that are to be made permanently available, including a new edition of the translation by Georges Perecs W or the childhood memories of Eugen Helmlé .
In the Transpositions series , Diaphanes publishes first translations by contemporary international philosophers, mainly from French-speaking countries, but also from Italian and English. These include Alain Badiou , Jean-Luc Nancy , Jacques Rancière , Giorgio Agamben , Judith Butler , Bernard Stiegler , Simon Critchley and Stanley Cavell .
The Quadro series is devoted to questions of art and image theory. Authors of this series are e.g. B. Georges Didi-Huberman , Hubert Damisch , Jean-Luc Godard and Rosalind Krauss .
The series minima oeconomica , launched in 2011, serves to analyze and criticize the economy and is edited by Joseph Vogl . In addition to basic texts by the US economist Hyman P. Minsky, two titles by the Swiss economist Christian Marazzi have been published here.
Since 2012, a series of essays on well-known television series such as The Wire and The Sopranos has been published under the title Booklet .
Since the beginning of 2014 the publisher has published a series entitled Platon & Co - Philosophy for Young Readers . The series has its own website.
In 2017, the publisher began publishing the Diaphanes magazine quarterly.
literature
- Mobile thinking. The Diaphanes publishing house anchors postmodernism in Germany. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , December 17, 2006, p. 29.
Web links
- Official website
- Steffen Richter: Defense of Unreason . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 27, 2006 (publisher portrait)
- Johan Hartle : New Spirit of Continental Thinking . In: Deutschlandfunk , September 20, 2006 (publisher portrait)
- Martina Läubli: Something happens in every head. In: NZZ.ch , November 1, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry by diaphanes AG ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich , accessed on January 6, 2012.
- ↑ Member list ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association , accessed on March 7, 2012.
- ^ Publisher . Diaphanes website.
- ↑ German Book Prize: The Longlist 2012: Angelika Meier, Heimlich, heimlich mich vergiss ( memento of the original from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Susan Christely: Mighty Markets, Powerless Society - Joseph Vogl and "The Ghost of Capital" . In: Kulturzeit , 3sat , August 15, 2011.
- ↑ Barbara Basting: Joseph Vogl examines the "ghost of capital" . In: Reflexe , DRS 2 , May 26, 2011.
- ^ Verlag diaphanes takes over the magazine for media studies (ZfM) . In: reviews: communication: media . December 9, 2011.
- ↑ About us. Concept . Website of the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft , September 2013, accessed on September 17, 2015.
- ↑ www.platonundco.de
- ↑ magazine. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
