Philippe Descola talks with the philosopher Emmanuel Alloa on the occasion of the publication of his latest book, Les formes du visible : une anthropologie de la figuration.

After contributions to the ethnology of Amazonia, based in particular on investigations among the Achuar Jivaros, Philippe Descola has devoted himself for several years to the comparative anthropology of relations between humans and non-humans and, more recently, to the anthropology of images. A CNRS Gold Medalist in 2012, Philippe Descola is a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor emeritus at the Collège de France and director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, he is notably the author of La Nature domestique (Paris, 2019 [1986]), Les lances du crépuscule (Paris, 1993), Par-delà nature et culture (Paris, 2005), Diversité des natures, diversité des cultures, (Paris, 2010), L'écologie des autres (Paris, 2011), La Composition des mondes (Paris, 2014), Une Écologie des relations (Paris, 2019), and Les formes du visible (Paris, 2021).

Emmanuel Alloa is professor of aesthetics and philosophy of art at the University of Fribourg. His publications include Penser l'image II. Anthropologies du visuel (ed., Presses du réel, 2015), Partages de la perspective (Fayard, 2020), Looking Through Images. A Phenomenology of Visual Media (Columbia UP, 2021). Winner of the 2016 Latsis Prize and the 2019 Aby Warburg Scientific Prize, he was assistant curator of the exhibition Le Supermarché des images (Jeu de Paume, 2020).

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