L'Impliqué

L'Impliqué (Les éditions de l'impliqué) is a small French independent publishing house founded in 1984 by Jacques Guigou. According to its own presentation, it seeks to create a critical practice of writing, of the book and of multimedia supports. Although its first published titles were brochures and a work by its founding individual, the house states that it is not intended to be exclusively devoted to self-publishing. Its editorial field is described as lying at the possible/impossible junction of praxis and poetry — welcoming, with critical friendship, the efforts of those who are not satisfied with the existing order and its literary or scientific rhetorics. On the praxis side, the house has announced historical reappraisals of the two last revolutionary moments of the twentieth century: the workers' councils of the 1920s in Europe and the 'contestations' of the 1960s. The processes of individualization of the social relation through the democratic recomposition of capital in the 1980s are also cited as material for its publications. The publisher is associated with the personal site of Jacques Guigou, which hosts his interventions, chronicles, poetry, theoretical and political writings from 1971 onward, sociological and socianalytic writings, courses, an autobibliography, translations, readings, recitals, video and audio, and correspondence, alongside the catalogue and letters of the Éditions de l'impliqué. The house is listed on Wikidata as a publishing house. Its scale is small and its identity is closely tied to its founder's intellectual project rather than to a large commercial group.

Les éditions de l'impliqué was founded in 1984 by Jacques Guigou. In its own account, the house was created to develop a critical practice of writing, of the book and of multimedia supports. Its first published titles were brochures and a work by its founding individual, but the publisher states that it did not intend to be exclusively devoted to self-publishing. The editorial domain it aims at is described as the possible/impossible junction of praxis and poetry, welcoming with critical friendship those who reject the existing order and its literary or scientific rhetorics. The house has announced forthcoming publications offering historical perspectives on the two last revolutionary moments of the twentieth century — the workers' councils of the 1920s in Europe and the 'contestations' of the 1960s — as well as work on the processes of individualization of the social relation through the democratic recomposition of capital in the 1980s. The publisher's identity is closely linked to the personal site of Jacques Guigou, which gathers his interventions, chronicles, poetry, theoretical and political writings from 1971 onward, sociological and socianalytic writings, courses, an autobibliography, translations, readings, recitals, video and audio, and correspondence, alongside the catalogue and letters of the Éditions de l'impliqué. Wikidata records L'Impliqué as a publishing house. The available evidence does not provide further dated milestones, ownership details, or commercial scale.

• 1984

  Les éditions de l'impliqué founded by Jacques Guigou.

Independent critical publishing at the junction of praxis and poetry; not exclusively self-publishing.

• Brochures

• A work by the founding individual

1. 1Jacques GUIGOUharmattan.fr
2. 2L'Impliquéwikidata.org