Henri VAN LIER's thought is without equivalent. Several thematic sheets make it easier to understand.

• La pensée d'Henri VAN LIER - PDF - (Version V04 du 11 août 2023)


• La technique chez Henri VAN LIER - PDF - (Version V04b du 15 mars 2019)


• La sémiotique d'Henri VAN LIER - PDF - (Version V07 du 02 mai 2022)


• Les référentiels d'Henri VAN LIER - PDF - (V04c du 09 juin 2019)

Or else :

• La linguistique vue par Henri VAN LIER - PDF - (V04b du 15 mars 2019)


• Le rythme vu par Henri VAN LIER - PDF - (V03 du 13 novembre 2018)

Readers interested in Anthropology may wish to browse the following texts :

• Anthropologies (General Anthropogeny <24C>)


• L'anthropologie de la publicité (Anthropogénies locales, Sémiotique 8)


• L'anthropologie du cadre photographique (AL, Sémiotique 13)

Readers interested in Architecture may wish to browse the following texts :

• Les Arts de l’espace - L'architecture (AL, Sémiotique 1)


• Action-Passion-State of inhabiting (General Anthropogeny <13B>)


• Architecture synergique 1968 (AL, Phylogenèse 7)


• Architecture - Espace architectural (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 1)

Readers interested in Art and Artistic life may wish to browse the following texts :

• Les Arts de l'espace (Peinture, Sculpture, Architecture, Arts décoratifs)


• La vie artistique (AG, Anthropogénie <27D1>)

They can also browse the following thematic sections (Painting and Scultpure in particular).

Readers interested in Comics may wish to browse the following texts :

• Comics, the exemplary image-text of WORLD3 (General Anthropogeny <14J2>)


• La bande dessinée, une cosmogonie dure (AL, Sémiotique 15)


• Tintin ou la collecte du monde (AL, Sémiotique 16)


• Comic strip: The quantal blank (Local Anthropogenies, Contemporary cosmogonies 3)


• Le concert des médias - 2. La bande dessinée et la topologie naïve (AL, Sémiotique 10)

Readers interested in Design (Industrial Aesthetics) may wish to browse the following texts :

• Design - Esthétique industrielle (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 3)


• Culture et industrie : le design - Critique 1967 (AL, Phylogenèse 6)


• WORLD3 and generalised engineering (General Anthropogeny <13M>)
  

Readers interested in Aesthetics may wish to browse the following texts :

• Les théories esthétiques et érotiques (AG, Anthropogénie <23A>)


• Design - Esthétique industrielle (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 3)


• Esthétique (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 4)


• Expériences esthétiques (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 4)

Readers interested in Language and Linguistics may wish to browse the following texts :

• Epilogue linguistique - Le parti existentiel des langues (1991)


• Memorandum pour un terminologue débutant (2002)


• Massive spoken language (General Anthropogeny <10D>)


• Les dialectes quant à leurs éléments (AG, Anthropogénie <16>)


• Les dialectes quant à leurs pratiques (AG, Anthropogénie <17>)


• Les théories du langage (AG, Anthropogénie <23D>)


• Linguistique anthropogénique et phonosémie mallarméenne (AL, Linguistique 1)


• Logic of ten indo-european languages 1989 (Local Anthropogenies, Linguistics 3)


• Logiques de cinq langues européennes (AL, Linguistique 4) (France Culture, 1987, documents sonores, 5 x 20')

They can also browse the following thematic sheet :

• La linguistique vue par Henri VAN LIER - PDF (14 pages)

Readers interested in Literature may wish to browse the following texts :

• Les théories d’Homo du fait de ses langages (AG, Anthropogénie <22>)


• Littérature extrême (17ème siècle) (AL, Linguistique 2)


• Histoire langagière de la littérature française ((AL, Phylogénèse 11) France Culture, 1989, documents sonores 30 x 30')

Readers interested in Mathematics may wish to browse the following texts :

• Les mathématiques (AG, Anthropogénie <19>)


• Interdisciplinarity [of anthropogeny] with mathematics (Post-Scriptum, Limitations and openings of the system)


• Mathematics and sexuality (Local Anthropogenies, Semiotics 4)


• La mathématisation de la flèche (AL, Phylogénèse 2)

Readers interested in Music may wish to browse the following texts :

• Massive music (General Anthropogeny <10C>)


• Les musiques détaillées (AG, Anthropogénie <15>)


• Music writing (General Anthropogeny <18IC>)


• Sequential Music, Danse, Theatre, Tectures (Local Anthropogenies, Contemporary cosmogonies 4)

Readers interested in Painting may wish to browse the following texts :

• Les Arts de l’espace - La peinture (AL, Sémiotique 1)


• Peinture (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 5)


• Espace pictural (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 5)


• Detailed images (General Anthropogeny <14>)


• Painting: The living formations (Micheline Lo) (Local Anthropogenies, Contemporary cosmogonies 7)

Readers interested in Philosophy and Metaphysics may wish to browse the following texts :

• From Metaphysics to Anthropogeny, 2006 (Local Anthropogenies, Ontology 1)


• Theories of Things: Philosophies and Sciences (General Anthropogeny <21>)


• Philosophy of photography (Local Anthropogenies, Semiotics 11)


• Priority of Technique (Le Nouvel âge1962)(Local Anthropogenies, Phylogenesis 1).
  This text proposes a quasi-philosophy of technique.


• The philosophies of time (Local Anthropogenies, Ontology 2)


• L'existentialisme de Jean-Paul Sarte, 1957 (AL, Ontologie 3)

They can also browse the following thematic sheet :

• La pensée d'Henri VAN LIER - PDF (16 pages)

Readers interested in Photography may wish to browse the following texts :

• Philosophy of photography (Local Anthropogenies, Semiotics 11)


• Le non-acte photographique (AL, Sémiotique 12)


• L'anthropologie du cadre photographique (AL, Sémiotique 13)


• La réthorique des index (AL, Sémiotique 14)


• The granular images of WORLD 3 (General Anthropogeny <14I>)


• A Photographic history of photography (1992) (Local Anthropogenies, Phylogenesis 10)


• Digital photography (Local Anthropogenies, Contemporary cosmogonies 2)


• Analogical photography (Local Anthropogenies, Contemporary cosmogonies 5)


• Le concert des médias - 1. La photographie et l'intrusion du réel (AL, Sémiotique 10)

Readers interested in Henri Van Lier's reference systems may wish to browse the following thematic sheet. It will direct them to the 30 chapters of Anthropogeny and to the texts of Local anthropogenies that deal with them.

• Les référentiels d'Henri VAN LIER - PDF (27 pages)

Henri VAN LIER identifies four common reference systems that can be invoked by both the human sciences and the exact sciences.

Readers interested in rhythm may wish to browse the following thematic sheet. It will direct them to the 30 chapters of Anthropogy that deal with it.

• Le rythme vu par Henri VAN LIER - PDF (17 pages)

Readers interested in Sciences may wish to browse the following texts :

• Theories of Things: Philosophies and Sciences (General Anthropogeny <21>)


• Limitations and openings of the system


• Les mathématiques (AG, Anthropogénie <19>)

Readers interested in Sculpture may wish to browse the following texts :

• Les Arts de l’espace - La sculpture (AL, Sémiotique 1)


• Sculpture (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 7)


• Espace sculptural (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 7)

Readers interested in Semiotics may wish to browse the following thematic sheet :

• La sémiotique d'Henri VAN LIER - PDF (17 pages), où l'on voit comment la définition du signe a radicalement évolué chez Henri VAN LIER, entre l'Animal Signé (1980) et Anthropogénie (2002).

They may (must) also read the following texts :

• Indicia - Primordial signs, full (General Anthropogeny <4>)


• Indexes - Intentional signs, empty (General Anthropogeny <5>)


• Field effects - Empty signs, obtained by compatibilization (General Anthropogeny <7>)


• Massive images - Intentional signs, representational (General Anthropogeny <9>)


• L'animal signé (AL, Sémiotique 5)


• Théorie sémiotique de la crise 1982 (AL, Sémiotique 6)


• Le Bruxellois ce sémiologue né 1968 (AL, Sémiotique 9)


• La réthorique des index 1982 (AL, Sémiotique 14)

Readers interested in Sexuality may wish to browse the following texts :

• L’intention sexuelle (AL, Sémiotique 2)


• Sexuality (General Anthropogeny <3D>)


• Mathematics and sexuality (Local anthropogenies, Semiotics 4)


• Sexualité humaine (AL, Encyclopaedia Universalis 8)

Readers interested in Technique may wish to browse the following thematic sheet. It will direct them to the 30 chapters of Anthropogeny and to the texts of Local anthropogenies that deal with it.

• La technique chez Henri VAN LIER - PDF (22 pages)

They may (must) also read the following texts :

• Priority of Technique (Local Anthropogenies, Phylogenesis 1).
  This text proposes a quasi-philosophy of technique.


• The technical and semiotic body (General Anthropogeny <1>).
  Technique is segmenting and panoplic. It is consistent with Homo's segmentarizing and transversalizing body.


• Tectures (General Anthropogeny <13>).
  Conjugated products (frameworks, architecture, furniture, weaving, clothing, etc.) open the door to Homo's fundamental achievements.