Luis de Miranda

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).

An author of thirteen books his writing has been translated into English, Arabic, Spanish, Turkish. He has published influential opinion articles in major French newspapers: his analysis of Facebook in France's leading newspaper Le Monde, has been shared more than 1400 times on Facebook. Luis de Miranda was the first French intellectual to react to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal in 2011 in an internationally commented article published by mainstream newspaper Libération. In 2010 he wrote and directed a short movie where Nietzsche meets Jesus, seen by over 37,000 people and heavily commented upon on YouTube.

He holds a postgraduate degree in philosophy (DEA) from Pantheon-Sorbonne University and another in economy and management from HEC Paris.

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

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".

His philosophical essays develop a specific interest for societal issues, historical methods, technological devices, and process philosophy (Deleuze, Bergson). He has written a cultural history of neon signs (L'être et le néon), a widely reviewed and influential cultural history of digital devices and automata (L'art d'être libres au temps des automates), presented by the magazine Sciences Humaines () as "a new utopia", "both philosophical, literary, artistic and scientific, an analysis of the Lacanian concept of jouissance in relation with capitalism, and a study on Deleuze which was translated and published by the Edinburgh University Press (Deleuze Studies). In all of these he develops his concept of 'Creal', which designates a form of ethical creative absolute becoming.

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