Luis de Miranda

In November 2017 he was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Edinburgh where his thesis explored the concept of esprit de corps. While studying for his doctorate he was also the founder and director of the CRAG (Creation of Reality Group) and the Anthrobotics Cluster.

In Spring 2017 to coincide with the imminent publication of the English translation of Qui a tué le poète? Luis de Miranda launched a world literature project to assemble eighty-eight translations of his novella. Its aim is to explore the "transnational existential grammar of the book and its universal themes, which although written in differing languages and using their own poetry describe the same human emotions". In an interview with World Literature Today, Luis de Miranda described the project as "reawakening a sort of universal reader". Who Killed The Poet? was translated by Tina Kover and joins the already published Turkish edition with Greek, Hindi, Korean and Swedish translations on their way.

From September 2014 to March 2017 Luis de Miranda conducted his PhD research on the concept of esprit de corps at the University of Edinburgh from a historical, political, philosophical, and comparative perspective. He explored the ideas of collective life and the hive mind from a discourse analysis and conceptual history perspective, comparing long-term data since the eighteenth century until the present day. Among several others, the University of Vienna invited Luis de Miranda to talk about his research in April 2016 and published his paper online.

His philosophical essay "Is a new life possible?" co-translated into English has been published as a peer-reviewed essay by the Edinburgh University Press (Deleuze Studies). It remains one of the most downloaded Deleuze Studies papers since 2013, and is an attempt to present an overview of Deleuze's philosophy through the concept of lines of life. In his dialogues with Claire Parnet, Deleuze asserts that: "Whether we are individuals or groups, we are made of lines" (Deleuze and Parnet 2007: 124). In A Thousand Plateaus (with Guattari), Deleuze calls these kinds of 'lifelines' or 'lines of flesh': break line (or segmental line, or molar line), crack line (or molecular line) and rupture line (also called line of flight) (Deleuze and Guattari 2004a: 22). Luis de Miranda explains the difference between these three lines, how they are related to the 'soul', and how a singular individual or group can arise from the play of the lines. Eventually, he introduces the concept of 'Creal' to develop the Deleuzian figure of the 'Anomal', the so(u)rcerer.

He was formerly the editorial director of and co-managed the independent publishing press Max Milo Éditions [fr] from 2004 to 2012. )

"The relationship between crealism and digitalism [numérisme] is the dialectic of the 21st century". Partly born out of his readings of Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger between 2003-2007, The Creal (Créel in French), Crealism or more recently crealectics is Luis de Miranda's proposed answer to the philosophical problem of the Real. "Creal is obviously a portmanteau compound of created-real. At the same time, in an essay on Deleuze (Is a New Life Possible?), in my novels Paridaiza and Who Killed the Poet? and in the essay L'être et le néon, where a Creal-cosmology is proposed. A philosophical concept answers a question and Creal is my answer to the question What is more real than the Real?".

During the 2000 decade he gathered his literary and philosophical projects under the name of "Crealism") and created a related movement in 2007. Arsenal du Midi, his virtual writing laboratory from 2004 to 2007, used one of two anagrammatic signatures "Arsenal du Midi" and "Animal du Désir".{{no footnotes}

Luis de Miranda (born 1971) is a philosopher and novelist. Born in Portugal, he grew up and has lived most of his life in Paris. He began travelling the world alone at the age of sixteen including Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States where he lived for two years. While living in New York City, he wrote his first novel, Joy (Joie).