Pierre Klossowski

• Critical edition of all P. Klossowski's publications and inedited manuscripts related to J.-G. Hamann and his work.
• Notes, commentaries, postface, bibliography.
• Digital and print publication expected for 2018.

Table of contents:

1. 1. Foreword by P. Klossowski.
2. 2. Johann-Georg Hamann 1730-1788 (1948).
3. 3. “Hamann jugé par Hegel” (extracts of a 1828 review by Hegel, about the first edition of the works of Hamann by Roth, Berlin, 1824-25).
   1. 1. Foreword by P. Klossowski.
   2. 2. Review of Hamann by Hegel.
4. 4. Méditations Bibliques of J. G. Hamann.
5. 5. Miettes of J. G. Hamann.
6. 6. Some of Hamann’s letters and letters’ extracts written in 1759.
   1. 1. To his brother (july 16, 1759).
   2. 2. To Lindner (april 27, 1759).
   3. 3. To Lindner (june 5, 1759).
   4. 4. To Lindner (july 20, 1759).
   5. 5. To Kant (july 27, 1759).
   6. 6. Second letter to Kant.
7. 7. Extracts of the Mémorables Socratiques of J. G. Hamann.
8. 8. Extracts of Golgotha et Scheblimini of J. G. Hamann.
9. 9.On human language and divine language.
   1. 1. A letter to Lindner.
   2. 2. Les dernières déclarations du Chevalier Rosenkranz sur les origines divines et humaines du langage, by J. G. Hamannn.
   3. 3. Foreword by P. Klossowski to the Métacritique.
   4. 4. Métacritique du purisme de la raison pure, by J. G. Hamann.
   5. 5. Extracts of Hamann’s correspondence with Jacobi (1783-1787).
      1. 1. Letter of the novembre 2, 1783.
      2. 2. Letter of the novembre 14, 1784.
      3. 3. Letter of the december 1, 1784.
      4. 4. Letter of the january 16, 1785.
      5. 5. Letter of the january 22, 1785.
      6. 6. Letter of the january 23, 1785.
      7. 7. Letter of the june 8, 1786.
      8. 8. Letter of the avril 30, 1787.
   6. 6. Extract of a letter to the princess Galitzin (1787).
10. 10. Exegetic and critical texts by Pierre Klossowski (published and inedited manuscripts).
    1. 1. L’anthropologie de J. G. Hamann.
    2. 2. Johann-Georg Hamann 1730-1788 (1952).
    3. 3.  Avertissement au lecteur du Mage du Nord (1988).
11. 11. Notes and editor’s commentaries.
12. 12. Postface.

Colette Peignot

First critical edition of Colette Peignot’s writings, done on the original manuscripts, with an historical and critical analysis of their previous editions.

Ismael’s title: N°5

Pages: 656
Language: English.

First critical edition of Kathy Acker’s unpublished early writings from (1969-1976). Comprises almost all the typescripts from that period present in the Kathy Acker’s archives.
Features also the transcription and presentation of Acker’s two 1974 experimental videos.
Editor: Justin Gajoux.
Critical notes: Justin Gajoux & Claire Finch.
Also with texts of: Alan Sondheim, Emily Cheng, Jill Kroesen, Peter Gordon, Claire Finch, Anna Maria Pinaka, Matias Viegener, Justin Gajoux.
Artwork: Satarina Cantos.
Isbn: 979-10-97450-03-8.
Published on August 30 of 2019.

Price: 35€ (shipping for Europe included).

Print run: 500 numbered copies. Offset printed, on paper Munken Print White 80g and Arjowiggins Popset 240g; signatures sewn, cold glue.

Order: via email editions.ismael@gmail.com
Pay: w/ bank transfer, w/ paypal, in €cash€ in Paris and in Lisbon.

Presented at August 2 of 2019, at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA-London) for The Labyrinth: a Convening on the  Work of Kathy Acker.With a reading by Claire Finch of her introduction, “Are You Surprised that Kathy Acker Was an Aries Because I’m Not” (img1).

To be launched in October 2019 – at After 8 Books (Paris) and at Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisbon), and later also in London, Berlin & al.

Presentation:

This book is the first attempt to produce a critical edition of a large number of Kathy Acker’s unpublished early works. Apart from the posthumous publication, in 2002, of the early manuscript Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S. by Amy Scholder and Grove Press in one volume, in 2002, as well as Gabrielle Kappes’ chapbook, no other important publication had been attempted in this field.

These – mostly unpublished – texts were all composed between 1969 and 1976. Yet they are representative of Acker’s published output only for the period running from 1971 to early 1974. These texts all exist as “clean” typewritten copies, probably intended to be kept, shown, maybe even published. The editor chose not to include Acker’s manuscripts. The transcriptions in this volume were made directly from the original typescripts. Original pagination, manuscript addenda, missing pages and other idiosyncrasies of each file have been preserved; our editorial notes at the end of the texts all feature a material description of the source version used.

The organization of this volume is chronological. The texts’ respective date of composition is often the result of an estimate based on their content and form (an estimate that is then justified and defended).

Such a collection shows how prolific, diverse and always in-progress Acker’s production was in those years. It isn’t, however, Acker’s complete early works. More typescripts exist at the Fales Library which aren’t featured or alluded to in this book. Their publication and analysis may in the future suggest a whole new set of interpretations that will, or might not, contradict the present editor’s exegesis. Moreover, the comparison of the typescripts with manuscript versions will undoubtedly inspire new perspectives on Acker’s creative process and intentions during those years.

Table of contents:

Catarina Santos

• Serigraphy designed and printed on the 1st of Marsh 2018.
• 4 layers, format A2, 50 ex. signed and numbered.
• Paper: Conqueror Connoisseur 100% cotton, Soft white, 300g.
• Price: 25 euros (since 01/07/18).

Silk screen print designed and printed by Catarina Santos (1989, Portugal), in the old Presídio of Trafaria, on the 1st of Marsh 2018, for the publication of Ismael’s 4th title, Théorie de l’indiscernable/Teoria do indiscernível by João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva.

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João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva

• Publication n°4.
• 56 pages booklet; format 13x21; soft cover; sewed.
• Original translation from Portuguese ("Teoria do indiscernível", text first published in "Abissologia - Teoria do Indiscernível", Lisboa - 2012). Bilingual edition French-Portuguese.
• Publication: 3rd of Marsh 2018 (in print, 315 ex. + 45 H.C.); 3rd of September 2018 (digital).
• Price: 7€ (in print); free (pdf).
• ISBN : 979-10-97450-02-1

João Maria Gusmão (Lisbon, 1979) and Pedro Paiva (Lisbon, 1978) collaborate since 2001 on the creation of objects, installations, 16 and 35mm films, as well as on editorial projects.

The duo has participated in several international biennials: 2006, in the 27th São Paulo Biennial (Brasil);  2007, in the 6th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (Brésil); 2008, in the Manifesta 7 (Italy); in 2009, they represented Portugal at the 53rd Veneza Biennial; in 2010 at the 8th Gwangju  Biennial (South Corea) and in 2013 participated in 55th Veneza Biennial central exposition (Italy).

Among their recent individual exhibitions: in 2016, “The Sleeping  Eskimo”, Kunsthaus Aarau, (Swiss); 2014/15, “Papagaio”, at HangarBicocca (Milano), at Camden Arts Centre (London) and at KW Berlin; in 2011, “Alien Theory”, at the Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau (Paris), “There’s nothing more to tell because this is small, as is every fecundation”, at the Marino Marini Museum (Florence) and “Tem gwef tem gwef dr rr rr” at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; in 2010, “On the Movement of the Fried Egg and Other Astronomical Bodies”, at Ikon Gallery (Birmingham); in 2008, “Horizonte de Acontecimientos”  PHotoEspaña (Madrid); and the exhibition “Abissologia: para uma ciência transitória do indiscernível”, at the Cordoaria Nacional (Lisbon), with the collaboration of Zé Dos Bois gallery and Lisbon’s town council.
(cf. BoCa).

The printed edition of this title was published at 350 copies (including 35 out of sale), numbered from 1 to 350. It presents itself as a single signature, sewed with a Singer machine. It is ornamented on the title page with Jonah Thrown to the Whale, engraving of Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), and with a black and white reproduction of Ventriloquism, creation of the authors. The book was composed (in Adobe Caslon, Modula ot, Mrs Eaves, Essonnes, Arno pro, and Im Fell double Pica fonts) at a house along the Tagus, and was printed, with offset digital technique, in the white city at the Gráfica Guide, on Munken Pure 100g paper for the inside, and on Arjowiggins Pop’ Set Sky Blue 240g for the cover, on the 2nd of march two thousand eighteen. This being the title’s first print. The publisher expresses sincere gratitude for their kind participation to:  Natxo Checa, the galeria Zé dos Bois, Nuno Faria, Frédéric Duarte, Ana Leão (Antalis), Xenon Cruz, Catarina Santos, Carlos Godinho and Mariana Ferreira.
The book was launched on the Saturday 3rd of March 2018, 18h, at the Zé Dos Bois art gallery (Rua da Barroca, 59, Lisboa), with an original serigraph by Catarina Santos especially created for the occasion, and printed at 50 ex. (cf. Ismael’s catalogue).

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the Livraria Leituria, rua Dona Estefânia n°123A, 1000-153, Lisboa.
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IN THE PRESS:
– João Seguro for the Revista Contemporânea (04/2018).

The poster for the launching was created by Catarina Santos (down here 12mb; 26mb file).

Mailhol, curé de Mirepoix.

• Reedition n°4.
• 16 pages booklet. Introduction of Christine Belcikowski and annotations by Joseph-Laurent Olive.
• Language: French.
• Published on the 20th of june 2017 (digital); and the 1st of july 2017 (print).
• Price: free (in digital format); 2,50€ TTC (in print).
• ISBN : 979-10-97450-01-4

Pétition au Comité de Sûreté générale de la Convention nationale ou aux juges donnés aux détenus du département de l’Ariège, par Mailhol, curé de Mirepoix, détenu ce 15 floréal (4 mars 1794) à Pamiers d’ordre du Représentant Chaudon-Rousseau. Introduite par Christine Belcikowski et annotée par Joseph-Laurent Olive.

“Né à Carcassonne en 1729, descendant d’une vieille famille de marchands drapiers qui a donné plusieurs consuls à la ville; neveu de Claude Mailhol (1703-1775), savant génovéfin, helléniste et hébraïsant, associé de l’Académie de Béziers, auteur d’un Mémoire sur les longitudes à découvrir en mer et d’un autre Mémoire sur un marbre des Juifs que l’on voit à Béziers; frère de Gabriel Mailhol (1725-1791), écrivain qui a gravité à Paris dans le milieu du duc de Fleury et qui laisse une oeuvre romanesque et dramatique prolifique; frère de Marie Xavier Mailhol qui a épousé en 1761 à Mirepoix Etienne Rouger, notaire royal, avocat en parlement; Jean Pierre Mailhol, bachelier en Sorbonne, entre au séminaire de Saint Sulpice à Paris en 1745.”

First paper edition printed in Lisbon the 25th of june 2017, on a Coral Book Creme 1.65 90g/m2 paper, stapled two times, format 13×21; 50 copies numbered from 1 to 50. Edition published for the 23rd Mirepoix’s Local History Book Fair.

Can be ordered, and bought at our usual adresses.
Also to be bought at the Librairie des Couverts, 7 Place Maréchal Leclerc, 09500 Mirepoix, France.

Christine Belcikowski

• Publication n°3.
• 120 pages book; format: 13x21.
• Language: French.
• Published on the 1st of July 2017 (in print); and on the 1st of January 2018 (digital).
• Price: free (digital edition); 10€ (in print).
• ISBN : 979-10-97450-00-7

Le 7 germinal an VIII (28 mars 1800), disent les registres de Mirepoix, Ariège, un certain Jean Dabail et sa bande, qui ont terrorisé la contrée de Mirepoix (Ariège) au temps de la Révolution française, tentent d’assassiner le gendarme Rives, qui se rend de Mirepoix à Pamiers en compagnie d’un marchand, nommé Abraham Louis. J’ai voulu en savoir plus sur cet Abraham Louis (1744-1829), dit « le Juif », qui, venant de Bordeaux, a été marchand  à Mirepoix (Ariège) de 1792 à 1812, qui s’y est illustré par la vigueur de son engagement républicain, qui est retourné ensuite à Bordeaux, et dont la trajectoire de vie demeure finalement énigmatique à bien des égards.

Quand certains hommes ou femmes se font connaître par des faits, que l’histoire retient, d’autres passent sur la terre sans laisser grosso modo d’autres traces que les actes religieux ou civils correspondant aux trois grandes étapes de l’existence commune : naissance, mariage, décès. Ceux-là ne peuvent faire l’objet que d’une enquête généalogique, seule propre à les inscrire dans le plan d’une histoire plus longue qui, une fois éclairée, donne sens à leur incognito, partant, aux heures de leur vie.

L’exégèse juive distingue de façon essentielle l’ίστορία (historia), ou l’histoire des faits, telle qu’on l’entend depuis l’antiquité gréco-romaine, et le תולָדות (toledot), ou l’histoire des engendrements, telle qu’on la trouve dans les listes généalogiques bibliques. C’est cette histoire-là que j’ai envie de raconter, dans le continuum de ses générations obscures ; et c’est dans le cadre de cette histoire-là que j’ai tenté déjà d’éclairer la figure d’Abraham Louis, qui, à partir de son identité marrane, se réclame des hommes « justes, honnêtes et de bonne foi », comme dit Spinoza, et nous renvoie ainsi à la question de l’universel, aujourd’hui plus actuelle que jamais

Il y a une esthétique des généalogies qui tire son modèle de la Bible et de la tradition gréco-latine. Outre qu’elle nous reconduit aux fastes poétiques de l’Orient ancien, elle nous relie au monde des engendrements, grands ou misérables, qu’elle célèbre ou plaint dans la profondeur du temps. Les généalogies relèvent d’une sorte de pacte de lecture qui annonce ou révèle au lecteur, même si celui-ci saute les noms ou les dates, comment il convient de prendre l’histoire du personnage considéré. Les généalogies du marranisme montrent qu’une telle histoire procède à la fois d’une longue suite de médiations humaines qui tend à se constituer en destin, et d’une part de contingence qui permet éventuellement à l’individu de se saisir d’une espérance nouvelle et de nourrir à la clarté de cette dernière le possible d’une liberté.

The paper edition was printed on the 19 of June 2017 in Lisbon; soft cover with 6cm flaps, on Rives Tradition Pale Cream 250g paper; signatures sewn, glued to the spine, on Coral Book Creme 1.65 90g paper; one color (black); closed format 13×21 cm. First print: 300 copies, 6 not commercialized, numbered from 1 to 300. With a printed engraving and typographical ornaments.
The book is presented at the 25th Mirepoix Local History Book Fair on July the 9th, 2017.

Can be ordered; as well as seen and bought at our usual adresses.
Also to be bought at:

• the Librairie des Couverts, 7 Place Maréchal Leclerc, 09500 Mirepoix, France.
• the Librairie les Cahiers de Colette, 23-25, rue Rambuteau, 75004 Paris.
• the Librairie du Temple, 1 rue des Hospitalières Saint Gervais, 75004 Paris.
• the Librairie du Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (Mahj), 71, rue du Temple, 75003 Paris.
• the Librairie Tschann, 125, boulevard du Montparnasse, 75006 Paris.
• the Librairie Compagnie, 58, rue des Écoles, 75006 Paris.
• the Librairie Michèle Ignazi, 17 rue de Jouy, 75004, Paris.
• the Librairie Delamain, 155 rue Saint Honoré, 75001, Paris.
• the Librairie du Mémorial de la Shoah, 17 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004, Paris.
• the Librairie Petite Égypte, 35 rue des Petits Carreaux, 75002, Paris.

Paul Choquet

• Pages: 202; language: French
• 1st edition published by Éditions Ionas/Ismael in 2016.
• 2nd edition published on the 27/07/2018.
• Digital edition (pdf); and printed at 10 ex. with an handmade binding.
• Price: free (in pdf); not to be sold in print.
• ISBN : 979-10-97450-03-8.

«This essay studies the links between transcendantal philosophy and experience, as seen from the perspective of the historical sign. This concept is applied to an historical event which, in itself, allows us to “pass” from historical experience to the supra-sensible domain of Progress. Indicating a moral disposition of Humanity, this sign confirms the Idea of a progression towards the better. The historical sign identified by Kant is: “the way of thinking of the spectators” of the french Revolution. Meanwhile, Kant uses the vocabulary of disinterestedness belonging to the judgment of taste as well as the vocabulary of enthusiasm, more proper to the sublime. This equivocacy throws a doubt upon the semanticity allowed to this way of thinking, and on the modality by which a passage from the empirical to the transcendantal is made possible».

Quentin Meillassoux

• Reprint n° 3
• Number of pages: 20
• Reprint of the text published in Critique, 704-705, “Dieu”, 2006, pp. 105-115.
• Editions: (1°) August 2016, (2°) Marsh 2017
• Actual edition: 2nd edition

Deuil à venir, Dieu à venir — Quentin Meillassoux

Print (out of stock): 70 copies of this text’s 2nd edition have been printed on the 20th of Marsh 2017, on a Coral Book cream 80g paper, and freely distributed in some Parisian bookshops.

Quentin Meillassoux

• Number of pages: 21
• Reprint n° 2
• Reprint of the text published in Failles, spring 2006, pp. 112-129
• Published in August 2016 (actualized in November 2016)

Potentialité et Virtualité, Quentin Meillassoux.

Claude Brousson

• Number of pages: 46
• Reprint n° 1
• First edition: 1694
• Published: 2016

This text is extracted from a critical edition of Claude Brousson’s pastoral writings that has yet not been released. We decided to publish it without delay. The reader will here find the text (pdf) scrupulously copied on the first (and unique) 1694 edition. It comes without commentaries. The typographical errors have been amended, the corrections are presented in the endnotes.

Richard Frethorne

• Number of pages : 72
• First published in English in 1935 (Government Printing Office)
• Translation and Postface by S. Famaco
• Bilingual edition, french / english (January 2016); New edition to come.

These key documents of early american history, testifying to a time when Virginia was still a plantation, are finally available to the francophone reader. Their author was Richard Frethorne, an indentured youth of english origin, born in the outskirts of London, Saint Dunstan in the East. During the winter of 1622-1623 he was sent to Virginia, where he wrote four letters (three of them to his parents), collected and ultimately filed in the papers of Nathaniel Rich, shareholder of the Virginia Company. In them he describes hunger, disease and the frequent raids of the natives which were raging across the colony, ravaging servants, planters and company administrators. In his letters he expresses, vehemently and pressingly, his wish to be redeemed and returned to England.

Parallel to the translation, this edition contains the english text collated from the manuscript by Susan Myra Kingsbury, carefully respecting the sometimes queer orthography and syntax of the original. The reader will also find in this book : an editorial note, endnotes, and a postface. The latter succinctly recounts, through contemporary documents, the history of the deportations of english children to Virginia by the London Company, between 1618 and 1623, as well as the events related to the 1623 hunger.

A new edition is coming forth, revised, corrected and augmented.