Notes on the Contributors

Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics and Conditions, Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe, and Alienation and Freedom by Frantz Fanon (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Anthony Faramelli is a psychosocial theorist and practitioner. He is a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Faramelli is the author of Resistance, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics and an editor of Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (both Bloomsbury Philosophy). Faramelli’s research is focused on the theories and practices of institutional analysis.

Sophie Lesage is a researcher and editor. As the founder and principal editor of Éditions d’une, an independent publishing platform that emerged in 2014 from the work on the publication of the GTPSI proceedings (Groupe de travail de psychothérapie et de sociothérapie institutionnelles), she is committed to publishing foundational texts and recent scholarship in the field of institutional psychotherapy. Alongside key texts in the history of institutional psychotherapy, Éditions d’une has published scholarly discourse on the matter, including Francesc Tosquelles. Psychiatre, catalan, marxiste, ed. by Jacques Tosquellas, and François Tosquelles et le travail, ed. by Pascale Molinier.

Marlon Miguel is co-principal investigator of the project ‘Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe’ at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and visiting fellow at the ICI Berlin. He holds a double PhD in Fine Arts (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) and Philosophy (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). His current research focuses on the intersection between contemporary philosophy, art, media, and psychiatry. He also practices contemporary circus and does practical movement research.

Jean Oury (1924–2014) was a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and medical director of La Borde clinic. As a medical student in 1947, he attended the lecture series at École normale supérieure, in which Tosquelles’s ‘Psychopathology and Dialectical Materialism’ was presented. Thereafter he decided to pursue psychiatry. Starting his career at Saint-Alban as an intern, he took part in the ongoing experiment of institutional psychotherapy. Oury completed his doctoral thesis, Essai sur la conation esthétique in 1950. His collaboration with Félix Guattari paved the way for founding La Borde clinic in 1953.

Christian Scheerhorn studied philosophy and comparative literature in Paris and Berlin. He is currently completing a Master’s degree at Freie Universität Berlin with a research focus on the junctions of literature, media, and French philosophy. As a Student Research Assistant, he contributes to the project ‘Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe’ at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, exploring the history of institutional psychotherapy and its media and milieu practices.

François Tosquelles (1912–1994) was a Catalan physician, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, co-founder of the POUM (Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista), and the institutional psychotherapy movement. In 1934 he was appointed as a physician in the Instituto Pere Mata in Reus and worked during the Spanish Civil War as psychiatric head of the Spanish Republican Army. After having spent three months at the concentration camp Septfonds, he found a way to the psychiatric clinic of Saint-Alban in Lozère. Tosquelles is author of a vast number of books, among them Le Vécu de la fin du monde dans la folie. Le Témoignage de Gérard de Nerval, Le Travail thérapeutique à l’hôpital psychiatrique, and L’Enseignement de la folie.

Elena Vogman is a scholar of comparative literature and media. She is principal investigator of the research project ‘Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe’ at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and visiting fellow at the ICI Berlin. She is the author of two books, Sinnliches Denken. Eisensteins exzentrische Methode (Diaphanes, 2018) and Dance of Values: Sergei Eisenstein’s Capital Project (Diaphanes, 2019).