Tristan Garcia was born in 1981. He grew up in Algeria, then in Chartres. He has taught philosophy at the University of Lyon-III and published works on metaphysics, such as Forme et Objet (PUF) and Laisser être et rendre puissant (PUF), as well as essays on animal sentience (Nous animaux et humains, F. Bourrin), the political imaginary of ‘us’ (Nous, Grasset), television series (Six Feet Under. Nos vies sans destin, PUF) and ‘electric life’ (La Vie intense, Autrement). Curious about many fields of cultural study, popular culture and systems of domination, he has brought together a number of scattered texts in Kaléidoscope (Léo Scheer). Interested in alternative practices and lives, he has taken part in collective experiments, in places of communality, against authoritarian forms of organisation of space and time, while at the same time questioning the blind spots and illusions of these experiments, particularly through his narratives. He has published several novels with Gallimard: La meilleure part des hommes, Mémoire de la jungle, 7, and a ‘Histoire de la souffrance’, the first two volumes of which, Âmes and Vie contre vie, have just been published.