Agnès Gayraud is a French musician and philosopher born in 1979. She teaches theory at the Villa Arson (National Art School) in Nice. A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), she has made various contributions on current issues in Critical Theory, aesthetics, and modernity. Between musical practice (as La Féline) and critique (for the daily paper Libération), she recently published her first book about the aesthetics of recorded popular music: Dialectique de la pop (2018, La Philharmonie/La Découverte), considered as a major work on the subject.
