The renowned artist once designed the sets and costumes for Ubu Roi in 1966.

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In a town in the north of England, hundreds gather each year to take part in a no-rules mass football game

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At once a spoof of French cycling culture and a loving tribute to 19th-century writer and forerunner of surrealism Alfred Jarry, Up and Down follows a bicycle rally up the French Alps’ Parpaillon pass...

The Pope’s Mustard-Maker (Le Moutardier du pape) was the last work that Alfred Jarry finished, a few months before his death in 1907. It is a bawdy three-act farce loosely based on the medieval leg…

The Spiral Rising from the Belly of Humanity Anyone who’s ever seen an illustration of Père Ubu, the grotesque hero of Alfred Jarry’s famous Ubu Roi, will remember a peculiar, baffling detail: a large...

My Works, Ye Mighty expands upon the conceptual literature of Christian Bök, particularly his ongoing project, entitled The Xenotext. Based upon work conducted during his tenure as the Writer-in-Resid...

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought&mda...

The Imaginary Present by award-winning poet and professor Amy Catanzano explores cutting-edge scientific fields such as particle physics and astrophysics, and branches of physics such as quantum theor...