At a moment when images circulate faster than the ideas that ground them, Le Cas Manouach examines comics as a critical, conceptual, and experimental device. The contributors — an international group of researchers, artists, and theorists — explore the strategies of détournement, appropriation, speculative editing, synthesis, and digital automation that run through Manouach's work, situating him as a major figure in conceptual comics and post-medium practice.
The volume moves from unstable archives to machine imaginaries, treating Manouach's practice as an occasion to think differently about images, their circulation, and their futures, and to reconsider the act of creation itself. Its keywords — conceptual comics, détournement, appropriation, synthetic art, and artificial and distributed intelligence — locate the book at the intersection of conceptual art history, media theory, and the contemporary discourse on generative AI.
Edited by Pedro Moura, Le Cas Manouach is the French companion to Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics (Routledge 2024).