September 2016

e-Manuzio


From the print books of Aldus Pius Manutius to the digital edition / From ink and paper to pixel and silicon.

In the 500th anniversary since the death of the first printer in history Aldus Pius Manutius (Aldo Pio Manuzio in Italian), the poet and artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis participates in events held Venice (city where Manuzio lived and created) with this comprehensive essay. Published by Vakxikon editions in cooperation with Clinamen editions.

The book was printed in Aldo Pio Manuzio’s pocket book dimensions (12×16 cm) and is also available as an e-book.

Book details

Author: Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Editing-Proofreading: Xenia Plachouri
Book and cover design: Roleplay
Publishing date: September 2016
Genre: Essay
Pages: 196
ISBN: 978-618-5144-72-2
Publisher: Vakxikon editions & Climanen editions
Language: Greek
Printed book: Vakxikon.gr
e-book: Myebooks.gr, Cosmotebooks.gr, Readpoint.com


February 2016

Gestes en éclats

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Published in February 2016
French edition
19 x 23,5 cm (softcover)
536 pages (b/w ill.)
€28.00
ISBN: 978-2-84066-832-9
EAN: 9782840668329

directed by Aurore Després
collection Nouvelles scènes, Presses du réel

Discourses, reflections and documents on performative and choreographic arts today.

Contributors :
DEMOSTHENES AGRAFIOTIS, BÉATRICE BALCOU, ISABELLE BARBERIS, JANIG BEGOC, DELPHINE BRETESCHE, FLORENCE CHEVAL, PAULINE CHEVALIER, AURORE DESPRÉS, LAURENT DEVEZE, BARTOLOME FERRANDO, BARBARA FORMIS, MICHEL GIROUD, GERALDINE GOURBE, ROLAND HUESCA, KVM -JU HYUN LEE & LUDOVIC BUREL, FRÉDÉRIQUE LATU, GÉRARD MAYEN, OLGA MESA & FRANCISCO RUIZ DE INFANTE, ESTHER MOLLO, FRÉDÉRIC NAUCZYCIEL & NACIRA GUENIF-SOUILAMAS, EMMANUELLE OLLIER, MÉLANIE PERRIER, JULIE PERRIN, LAURENT PICHAUD, STÉPHANIE PICHON, ANTOINE PICKELS, MARIE QUIBLIER, PIERRE RAVENEL, CÉLINE ROUX, PHILIPPE ROY, CAROLANE SANCHEZ, CLAUDE SORIN, MARK TOMPKINS, LOÏC TOUZÉ & MATHIEU BOUVIER, PIERRE TREILLE, CLAUDIA TRIOZZI, FABIEN VELASQUEZ, DAVID ZERBIB

Book sample : pdf (fr)



2013 | Springer Publications

Aging in European Societies



2012 | Erato Books

Cultural Poetics


“Cultural Poetics”
(Bonds, modalities-tropes)
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Erato Publications
Athens, 2012

ISBN: 978-960-229-244-0
Pages: 420, 14×21 cm, bound, hardcover
Foreword by Dr. George Arabatzis
Epilogue: Dr. Charalambos Magoulas
Literary edition: Helen Mavrakaki – Polyviou
Drawings and visual poems: D. Agrafiotis

Charles Bernstein believes that poetics is poetry using other means. In this spirit, this book aims to highlight the cultural conditions for the emergence of modern poetry and the cultural coordinates that influenced the poetic production of Demosthenes Agrafiotis.
The poems are approached as warning signs, messages, meta-messages of cultural change locally and globally. In the same perspective, the poet (through a choice of codes and poetic devices) appears to attempt the formation of his poems as an idiosyncratic pre-reading/pre-dicting of system-level changes in the ways human beings coexist in a globalised world.
The book is composed of essays, articles and poems-essays, published in Greek magazines, reports, newspapers, websites and books, as well as unpublished texts. The book also includes texts published in English or French that have then been translated into Greek by Dr. Charalambos Magoulas.
The texts were selected to formulate a first conceptual perspective on the term “Cultural”, but at the same time they are the minimum clarification and the necessary introduction to use and then to test the term “Poetics”. Among the issues discussed is the fate of contemporary poetry or modern poetry and the “misunderstanding” of postmodern poetry. The status of poetry in an environment of incessant reversals, requiring a dialogue between poetry and other artistic activities (painting, music, video, photo …), and finally, the cultural legitimacy of poetic production in the era of generalized ‘’crisology’’ are also clarified in the book.
Finally, it is hoped that the cultural signs and poetic explanations given in the book will allow a more coherent reading of the books of poetry, videos and other visual works of Demosthenes Agrafiotis. With this aim in mind, the site www.dagrafiotis.com will be extremely helpful.

ERATO Editions
Valtetsiou street 39, Athens,10681,tel: 00302103830323
email:eratobooks@gmail.com


October 2012 | PUF

Fabriques de la langue



1991 | Capricorne ed., Athens

The moving image


“The moving image”, Cinema/Capricorne, Athens, 1991.


1988

Prints, jugglings


“Prints, jugglings”, Moresopoulos/Photography, Athens, 1988.
13,5×20,5 cm, 108 pages.


1983

Cultural refoldings


Cultural refoldings”, Theory/Ideas, Athens 1983.