What Sylvère Lotringer did not write

In 1974 in New York, Sylvère Lotringer, a young French philosopher who had just hired at Columbia University, decides to start a journal with his students. Semiotext(e) quickly becomes a transmission belt between the various currents of critical thought in post-68 France and the United States and frees itself from the university to open up to all countercultures of the moment. Semiotician Lotringer reinvents himself as a publisher, interviewer, but also as a filmmaker and catalyst for an entire scene artistic and intellectual alternative which contributes, somewhat by chance, to establish “Cultural Studies” during the 1980s. With the author Chris Kraus, Lotringer opens the publishing house Semiotext(e) to poetry and the fiction of many American female authors. In this long-term interview given to another student body (a group of students from the school National School of Fine Arts in Lyon, led by François Aubart and François Piron), Sylvère Lotringer tells the story of a publishing adventure still alive today and the ways of doing things that he developed for maintain for 40 years a political line faithful in friendships and attentive to pulsations of the contemporary world.