The texts included in Nikos Daskalothanasis' new book have been written at irregular intervals, most of them in the last seven years. They have three common characteristics: firstly, they have been written by the same person (whatever that means), secondly, they concern art history in one way or another, and thirdly, while many of them were intended to be published, they remained unpublished (with two exceptions) (some of them did not even reach the listener, although that was their original destination). They were unlucky, in a word. This injustice suffered by the texts is rectified by this edition. Hence the title "Restitutions" (which, in another context, is used by Derrida for painting). Along with them, those that were not intended to be published also benefit.