Tristan Garcia is a writer and philosopher. He teaches philosophy at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. He has published numerous works, philosophical treatises, and novels, including Forme et objet (reissued as part of the Presses universitaires de France (PUF) paperback collection Quadrige), Nous, La Vie Intense, Les Cordelettes de Browser, Mémoire de la jungle, 7,and Âmes (the first volume of his Histoire de la souffrance), published as part of Gallimard’s Blanche collection. Laisser être et rendre puissant, his latest work on metaphysics, will be published in April 2022 by PUF.