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Jérôme Game

Jérôme Game

Biography

Born in Paris in 1971, Jérôme Game lives there after having spent several years in the United States and in England. He joined the American University of Paris in 2004, where he is currently an Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Film Studies. After receiving his Ph.D. in modern French literature and philosophy from Cambridge University in 2002 (with a thesis on contemporary French poetry and Deleuzian aesthetics) he was appointed Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at University College London, where he carried out research for two years. Since 2004 he has been teaching modern Philosophy, Literature and Film Studies at AUP. In parallel with this position, he is

also an Associate Researcher with the 'Centre d'Etudes Poétiques' of Ecole Normale Supérieure -- Lettres & Sciences Humaines, and with the center 'Recherches sur la Pluralité Esthétique' of Université Paris 8 -- Saint-Denis. His teaching is very much informed by his research interests which focus on a genealogical and critical examination of modern and contemporary French culture (visual and textual) around a philosophical reworking of subjectivity and time. These concerns -- theoretical and critical -- are addressed in several publications, often within an interdisciplinary context, and problematised around issues such as the body, desire and power.

Jérôme Game has published 6 books of poetry since 2000. His texts are often written in cut-up and montage, not to constitute an immediatly critical or political space but to re-examine an esthetic question: that of common sense, that of the espace commun. This poetic work is intensified in a relation to visual arts (recent works with photograph/video artist Nebahat Avcioglu), sound (several recordings) and to a 'foreign language' (writing in English and in frenglish). Several theoretical texts interrogate those practices in the context of contemporary politics.

Numerous audio and video recordings, public readings and publications in journals in France and abroad. Member of the editorial boards of the journals Action Poétique and Inventaire-Invention (www.inventaire-invention.com). He also co-edits the Éditions Single (public readings, small press, art exhibitions).

Recordings

  • 'Colonoscopy'
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Bibliography

Books

  • Nappes (with CD), Le Triangle, Rennes, March 2007.
  • ça tire (with CD), Al Dante, Paris, March 2007.
  • Ceci n'est pas une liste, Little Single, Paris, 2005.
  • écrire à même les choses, ou, Inventaire/Invention, Paris, 2004.
  • Tout un travail, Fidel Anthelme X, Marseille, 2003.
  • Corpse&Cinéma, CCCP Press, Cambridge, 2002.
  • Polyèdre suivi de La Tête bande, Voix, Metz, 2001.
  • Tension, Fischbacher, Paris, 2000.

Poems in journals:

Texts published notably in Quaderno, Boxon, Horlieu, Le Nouveau Recueil, Fusées, Doc(K)s, Les Cahiers du refuge, Il Particolare, Issue, Java, Action Poétique, Cahiers Critiques de Poésie, Art Press, Inventaire-Invention, La Polygraphe, Le Quartanier, Critique, Barca, Quid, Son@rt, Gendai Shi Techo, Formes Poétiques Contemporaines FPC, [h]apax, La Revue X, è®e, IF, Canicula, Incidences.

Anthologies

  • Balade en poésie (Bezon, 2000)
  • Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry 11 (Cambridge, CCCP Press, 2001)
  • 100 Days: An Anthology (Cambridge, Barque Press, 2001)
  • Works on paper (Cambridge, Aitchess Press, 2002)
  • Anthologie de poésie française contemporaine (Bolletario n°40, Modena, 2003)
  • Some Evidence (Cambridge, Barque Press, 2004)
  • Further evidence of nerves (Cambridge, Barque Press, 2005)
  • Catalogue Poésie Marseille 2005, Galerie Jean-François Meyer, Marseille, 2006
  • Esquive -- Escale -- Esquille: Anthologie de poésie française contemporaine (Chinese translation, Taipei, Laureate Books, 2006)
  • Anthologie de poésie française contemporaine (Buenos Aires, forthcoming, 2007)

Translations

  • Hollow Life -- Selection, translation, and presentation of Christian Prigent, CCCP Press, Cambridge, 2001.
  • English translations of poems by Christophe Tarkos and Philippe Beck in Quid n°3, of Pascal Boulanger, Hubert Lucot, and Eric Suchère in Quid n°10, and of Christian Prigent in Mantis n°2.
  • Editor and translator of the dossier on contemporary poetry from Britain for Action Poétique n°179, March 2005, pp. 31-65

Audio and video recordings:

  • Quid _CD-R_ n°3, Cambridge, 2002
  • CD Boxon n° 13, Lyon, 2003
  • Son@rt n°40, Paris, 2004
  • Panoptic: un panorama de la poésie contemporaine CD-Rom Inventaire-Invention, Paris, 2004
  • Collection T.A.P.I.N.
  • La Revue X
  • Critical Secret n°15, 2005, reading-interview with David Christoffel
  • CD (h)apax n°1 (with Christian Prigent and Charles Pennequin), Reims, 2005.
  • Julien Blaine, Bye-bye la Perf' le DVD, Editions k'a / Al Dante, Ille-sur-têt, 200.
  • Incidences n°11 DVD, Marseille (forthcoming, 2007).

Public readings:

Very numerous public readings and performances in France and other countries, notably: Galerie Jordan Paris, France-Culture/Beaubourg, Festival de Poésie Contemporaine de Cambridge, Festival d'Edimbourg, London Camden People's Theater, Médiathèque de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Centre Norois Arras, Centre International de Poésie Marseille, Médiathèque d'Atis-Mons, Gonville & Caius Readings Cambridge, Galerie Espace Tiphaine Paris, Brunel University of London, Montperrin Art Contemporain Aix-en-Provence, Festival Total Writing London, Villa Gillet Lyon, Institut Français de Tokyo, Institut Français de Fukuaka, La Villette/Inventaire-Invention Paris, Musée Beaux Arts Lyon, Médiathèque de Gardane, Médiathèque de Bezon, Poetry Summit I Cambridge, Reid Hall Institute Paris, La Ménagerie de verre Paris, La Nuit Blanche/France Culture, The London Review of Books Cambridge Series of Poetry Reading, ENSCI Paris, Centre d'Art et de Littérature de L'Echelle Charleville, BPI / Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Centre d'art le Triangle Rennes, Festival Musique Action Nancy, Festival Poéson La Cartonnerie Reims 2005, Olympic Café Paris, Poetry Summit II Cambridge, La Nuit décalée -- Palais de Tokyo, 18ès Instants Vidéo et Poétiques Nomades Marseille, Ecole Normale Supérieure -- Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Ritournelles Festival de poésie et d'art contemporain Bordeaux, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Galerie n'a qu'un œil Bordeaux, Festival Poésie Marseille, Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne, Festival poé/nuit Lyon, Université de Brighton, Friche de la Belle de Mai Marseille, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de St-Etienne, Université Paris 8 -- Vincennes, Festival Sonorités Montpellier, Poésie Nuit à la BNF, Festival ActOral Montévidéo Marseille, Los Angeles Lectures à la BNF, Salon International de l'édition de poésie 2006, Festival Expoésie de Périgueux 2006, Festival de Poésie Voix de la Méditerranée Lodève 2006, Université Bogaziçi Istanbul, Saumur Littératures et Poétiques, La Station/Le Confort Moderne Poitiers, Festival des Ecritures Contemporaines d'Orléans, Festival Polyphonix à Montreuil, Université de Rennes 2, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, etc.

Selected Essays

  • "Une Poésie sans sujet", in M.-C. Ropars et P. Sorlin (eds.), L'Art sans sujet, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2006
  • "La répétition différentiante dans la poétique deleuzienne: temporalité, bégaiement et ritournelle", in H. Micolet (ed.), Deleuze et les écrivains, Lyon, 2006
  • "Quand je vais lire", in Quand l'écrit prend langue, collectif, Al Dante, Paris, 2006, pp. 25-33
  • "Du bruit à l'extérieur -- ou pourquoi j'ai écrit certains de mes textes en anglais", in Poésie, détours, collectif, Éditions Textuel, 2004, pp. 162-190
  • "Ecrire à même les choses, ou", Fusées n°7, août 2003, pp. 19-24
  • "Pensée pensante: poésie", Java n°21-22, avril 2001, pp. 24-37
  • "Le Virtuel Deleuzien: Cogito pour un moi dissous", BARCA: Poésie, Politique, Psychanalyse n°15, novembre 2000, pp. 57-80
  • "D'une affirmation intempestive", Action Poétique n°175, dossier 'Poétisme', mars 2004, pp. 16-17
  • "Actualités du moderne: ou une certaine idée du contemporain poétique", in Dossier sur la poésie contemporaine, J.-M. Espitallier (ed.), Le Magazine Littéraire n°396, mars 2001, pp. 20-23.

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Reviews

  • Ph. Boisnard, in Mécano: pensée de la poésie française contemporaine, Al Dante, Paris (forthcoming in 2007).
  • P. Sorlin, in the conference 'Poésie et autres arts', Ecole Normales Supérieure, Paris, April 2006.
  • J.-B. Gandon, 'Les vers sortent du fruit', Sortir n°21, June 2006, p. 15.
  • J.-M. Espitallier, in Caisse à outils: un état de la poésie française contemporaine, Press Pocket, Paris, 2006 (see index nominum).
  • L. Menoud, Cahiers Critiques de Poésie n°11, March 2006, p. 236.
  • SUR LE VIF n° 2/5, interview with Jean-Marc Bailleu, January 2006.
  • F. Guétat-Liviani, Journal Sous-Officiel, Fall 2005, n°026, p.20.
  • J. Donguy, Cahiers Critiques de Poésie n°10, 2005, p. 225.
  • De quoi parlons-nous n°3, interview with Stéphane Pihet and Michael Batalla, September 2005.
  • S. Pihet, De quoi parlons-nous n°3, September 2005, p. 1.
  • M. Prudon, Le Marché des lettres n°5, Summer 2005, p. 11.
  • E. Houser, Cahiers Critiques de Poésie n°9, June 2005, p. 239.
  • M. Prudon, paper delivered at the conferenc 'La nouvelle poésie de performance française', Valencia, April 2005.
  • A. Zimmermann, Urbanisme n°341, March 2005, p. 13.
  • N. Agostini, Cahiers Critiques de Poésie n°8, November 2004, pp. 211.
  • E. Rabu, La Revue Littéraire n°5, August 2004, pp. 185-186.
  • Ph. Boisnard, www.lelitteraire.com, June 2004
  • R. Sekigushi, Gendai Shi Techo [Cahiers de poésie contemporaine], June 2004.
  • E. Suchère, Cahiers Critiques de Poésie n°5, April 2003, p. 115.
  • Ch. Prigent, Cahiers Critiques de Poésie n°3, May 2002, pp. 108-109.
  • A. Hélissen, Le Magazine littéraire et poétique n°297, December 2001, p. 6.
  • F. Courtade, La Polygraphe n°20-21, October 2001, pp. 238-239.
  • J. Baetens, www.remue.net, May 2001.
  • J. Baetens, Formules n°5, May 2001, pp. 293-294.
  • G. Hons, Le Mensuel littéraire et poétique n°281, June 2000, p. 4.

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