Book Launch | Étienne Balibar. Sur la guerre. Trois interprétations. On War. Three Interpretations
Suture Press is inviting you to the book launch of the Constellation n.1: Étienne Balibar. Sur la guerre. Trois interprétations. On War. Three Interpretations Speakers: Étienne Balibar (on zoom), Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Petr Kouba, and Jana Ndiaye Berankova
In English. Free Entry.
June 10, 2026 18.00 Display Dittrichova 9/337 120 00 Prague 2
Come to celebrate with us the publication of Étienne Balibar’s Sur la guerre, the first volume of the new series of small theory books (in English, and in French) published by Suture Press in a hard-bound edition with illustrations by Nela Klímová. The volume brings together three essays in which the philosopher Étienne Balibar analyzes the notion of war, from Simone Weil’s writings of Homer’s Illiad to the links between the thinking of Carl von Clausewitz and of Karl Marx, as well as the current geopolitical situation and the war in Ukraine.
This event is organized by Suture Press, with the support of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Strategy AV21 grant – Research program Identities in the World of Wars and Crises.” [www.display.cz] [https://suturepress.com] book orders at: [https://shop.suturepress.com]
Étienne Balibar is a philosopher and former student of Louis Althusser. He is a professor emeritus at University Paris X – Nanterre and the University of California, Irvine. His works include Lire le Capital (with Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey, Jacques Rancière, and Roger Establet) (1965), The Philosophy of Marx (1995), Spinoza and Politics (1998), Politics and the Other Scene (2002), We, the People of Europe? (2003), Equaliberty (2014), Violence and Civility:. On the Limits of Political Philosophy (2015), Citizen Subject:. Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology (2017), and Secularism and Cosmopolitanism (2018).
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, where he directs both the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies and the Global Centre for Technology in Humanities. He is also a Research Fellow at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University. Previously, he was a Guest Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at the University of Brighton. He co-edited The Idea of Communism 3 (2016) and has co-authored numerous books in English. His English-language monographs include Communism After Deleuze (2025), Made in Nowhere: Essays on the Asiatic Modes of Existence (2025), and Colours of the Concepts (2025).
Petr Kouba studied philosophy at the Departement of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, and received PhD at the same department in 2006. During his postgraduate study, he was awarded several fellowships: at the Universität Zurich (2000 - 2001), Duquesne University in Pittsburgh (2001 - 2002), and the Université de Lausanne (2003-2004). After receiving PhD, he lectured at the Anglo-American College in Prague and in the international programm CERGE-EI at the Charles University. Besides being a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, he lectured philosophy at the Departement of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles Universtity in Prague between 2006 - 2016. He is an author of the books Fenomén duševní poruchy. Perspektivy Heideggerova myšlení v oblasti psychopatologie, which was translated to the English (2015) and German (2012) languages. He published another two monographies: Margins of Phenomenology, and Exodus bez Mojžíše. He also co-edited three collective monographies: Dynamic Structure: Language as Open System, Medicína v kontextu západního myšlení, and Franz Kafka: Minority Report.
Jana Ndiaye Berankova is an art and architecture theorist, philosopher, writer, publisher, and currently a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. A former Fellow of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, she studied at the École normale supérieure, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and Columbia University, where she completed her PhD dissertation on the links between architecture theory and French philosophy from 1965 to 1990. She runs Suture Press, a non-profit publishing house focusing on carefully designed hardback books on continental philosophy, contemporary art, and architectural theory, where she co-edited books such as Revolutions for the Future: May ’68 and the Prague Spring (2020). Her book of interviews with Alain Badiou L’Éclat de l’absolu (2025) questions the intersections between his philosophical system and the thinking of Plato, Hegel, Sartre, Althusser, Lacan, and Deleuze.
