Pensées soignées

“The tragedy,” James Baldwin once observed regarding the condition of the world, “is that most of the people who say they care about it do not care. What they care about is their safety and their profits.” In the decades since Baldwin’s words, artists, writers, and thinkers around the world have continued to call for more attentive, expansive, and radical practices of care—even as capitalist cultures have tightened their grip on life through security, accumulation, and disposability.

Pensées soignées, K. Verlag’s new series of works-in-translation, amplifies voices from the non-Anglophone world who are thinking about care and caring about thought. These texts do not offer easy answers, but they open linguistic and conceptual spaces that are at once intellectually rigorous and emotionally resonant. Through translation, they bring into English a spectrum of situated insights, local solidarities, and conceptual tools that otherwise remain inaccessible—not only across languages, but across forms of knowing and sensing.

In an era marked by disorientation and systemic crises, Pensées soignées (Well-Tended Thoughts) proposes writing and translation not just as literary acts, but as modes of relation, resistance, and repair.

Series Editors: Stuart Kendall and Etienne Turpin
Book and Series Design: K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel and Katharina Tauer

Ps1     The Immense Regression:        
What is Called Caring? Vol 1. 
Bernard Stiegler    
translated by Daniel Ross
October 2025

Ps2    Digital Schizophrenia                  
& Other Essays
Anne Alombert
translated by Daniel Ross
Late Fall 2025

Ps3    Pirate Ecology:                     
— So we can be free
Fatima Ouassak
translated by Carolyn Shread
Late Fall 2025

Ps4  Dispatches from Other Possible Worlds 
(Exercises in Radical Imagination)
Irmgard Emmelhainz 
translated by Ana Andrade   
Late Fall 2025

Ps5 Yanomami: 
The Spirit of the Forest
Bruce Albert & Davi Kopenawa
translated by Stuart Kendall
Winter 2026

Ps6 Before Colombia:
The First 14,000 Years
Carl Henrik Langebaek
translated by Tupac Cruz
Winter 2026

Ps7 Swimming Journal
Chantal Thomas
translated by Natasha Lehrer
Winter/Spring 2026

PS8 The Lesson of Greta Thunberg:        
What is Called Caring? Vol 2. 
Bernard Stiegler
translated by Daniel Ross
Winter/Spring 2025