Poetic Becomings

Jérôme Game is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Film Studies at the American University of Paris and Associate Researcher at Université Paris 8 and the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines. After receiving his PhD in French from the University of Cambridge, he spent two years as Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at University College London. He is the editor of the volumes Porous Boundaries: Texts and Images in Twentieth-Century French Culture (2007), Jacques Rancière : Politique de l'esthétique (2009), Images des corps/Corps des images au cinéma (2010) and Le Récit aujourd'hui : Art et littérature (2011).

Contents: A Poetics of Becoming - Christian Prigent, or Life as Piercing - Dominique Fourcade, or a Poetics of the Rhizome - Olivier Cadiot, or the Stuttering Self - Hubert Lucot, or the Writing of Duration - Towards a Politics of Becoming?

«Game's book is wholly original and well-argued, and a rich source of ideas for any scholar in the field. It should also be of interest to a public curious about sources of recent developments in French writing.» (Nathalie Wourm, French Forum 37, 2012/3)

«Game’s book is wholly original and well-argued, and a rich source of ideas for any scholar in the field. It should also be of interest to a public curious about sources of recent developments in French writing.» (Nathalie Wourm, French Forum 37, 2012/3)