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)