The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Joseph Vogl
© Kiwitt
WRITER
Germany
Joseph Vogl (Germany) teaches modern literature at Humboldt University in Berlin. The author of numerous works of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural and media science, he has translated the works of Deleuze, Lyotard, and Foucault into German. In the only book of his published in France, Le Spectre du Capital (Diaphanes, 2013), Vogl questions the capitalist system, its modus operandi, and the way it perpetuates itself. In Germany it was one of the most noted books about the economic crisis currently affecting Europe. Diaphanes is currently in the process of publishing French translations of his work.
