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After 8 Books
7 rue Jarry
75010 PARIS

*OFFSITE EVENT* this happens at Grand Hotel Amour, rue de la Fidelité. Just around the corner from After 8 Books.

We are very proud to welcome Céline Semaan for a conversation with Melody Thomas around her book:…


Clouds are, narratively speaking, some tricky things. They are both full and empty. They are vacant and shifting, a site of tension between the material and the immaterial, the perceptible and the invisible. clouds is…

Unsex Me Here is a prayer book tied together by the strings of a corset. Glamorous ramblers, haunted by the sense of another world drawing near, wander in and out of its inexplicable twilight. From a West Texas…

Chickens have a collective soul. Heaven is full of the skateboarders you kissed in middle school. If the algorithm is its own hell, Lauren Cook, author of the critically (and uncritically) acclaimed Sex Goblin,…

More Gamper ! <3

“Over the last few months, we have immersed ourselves in [Martino Gamper’s] archive; to discover new and rediscover familiar pieces; to discuss, and to gain a better understanding of his design…

Amy Ashwood Garvey was a committed Pan-Africanist and feminist who moved to the UK from Harlem in the 1930s. Most famous for being the first wife of Marcus Garvey, her contributions to movements for social justice, race…

Fluid and unselfconscious, Ghayath Almadhoun writes love poems in the shape of nightmares: I have brought you a severed hand is a surreal mix of absurd humour, heteroerotic lust and dead seriousness. Caught between two…

Surpopulation carcérale, banalisation de l'exception, criminalisation accrue des militants dits "extrémistes" et de tout mouvement social d'ampleur, violences policières quotidiennes, dissolution d'organisations, approche…

F(r)ictions and Danarti invite you to engage with the works of Palestinian writers and artists, and with text written on the subject of Palestine as a place, a people, a culture that is justified in its struggle for freedom.…

Longtemps on a voulu opposer deux familles du rap français : le rap conscient et le rap bling-bling, les lyricistes et les punchliners – la critique sociale ou le commercial, la poésie ou l’egotrip. Or, l’immense succès…

Se perdre sans peur emprunte sa forme aux livres d’enfant: coins arrondis pour ne pas blesser, pages cartonnées offrant plus de résistance et robustesse aux chocs, aspect glacé et tranches teintées en protection…

Surrealism was not only an international artistic movement, but also a political one. Its members denounced European colonial policy, opposed fascist regimes, fought for the Spanish Republic, were persecuted, went into…

Avant d’être un livre, The Great Prince of the Forest est une lecture performée de 30 minutes, dans laquelle Cliff Tait-Jamieson nous partage sa rencontre nocturne avec des cerfs dans les forêts du Lot. La publication…

Jusqu’à ce soir-là, je ne me doute pas qu’il y a des scorpions en France. Dans mon esprit, tous les scorpions vivent en Algérie. Je ne sais pas exactement ce qu’est l’Algérie, je n’y suis jamais allée, mais je sais,…

Marc Camille Chaimowicz was an acclaimed visual artist known for his performances, installations and curatorial flair. He was also a writer. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of writings by the artist, includes…

This is the facsimile of an undated sketchbook of drawings by Jason Rhoades – in a light slipcase. As a sculptor working at EPIC scale, Rhoades (1965–2006) used everyday materials to systematically explore life’s big questions.…

Lawrence Weiner was a crucial figure in the development of conceptual art, a movement which emerged in the mid-1960s and radically redefined the role of the artist and the fundamental relationship between the artwork and…

The new edition of Campo di Marte by Nathalie Du Pasquier is enriched with sixteen additional compositions, expanding and complementing the original selection of the first edition.

Campo di Marte…

Many typefaces created today are related to types of the past, and interest in older letterforms is stimulated by the great number of visual resources available. We are surrounded by digital fonts based in one way or another…

Prepositions enacts a distinction between what language says and what it does. A catalogue of exercises, interviews, essays and creative explorations, this workbook-compendium invites the reader to investigate…

Shulamith Firestone was 25 years old when she published The Dialectic of Sex, her classic and groundbreaking manifesto of radical feminism, in 1970. Disillusioned and burned out by the fragmented infighting within…

« Nul ne sait ce que peut un corps » écrit Spinoza dans son Éthique. C’est sur cette zone de non-savoir qu’Emma Cossée Cruz porte son regard dans Une masse grise. On y croise des machines d’imagerie médicale,…

Frappe mon intestin, s’il te plaît pour que j’oublie qui je suis pour un temps – [ma]punition pour être une femme. Pense à la façon dont mon père meurt d’un cancer et personne pour porter son nom. Imagine juste si…

Hilarious,

the way a crab’s slender
eye-stalks
stand straight up

from its scuttling
carapace—

the way vigilance

L'affaire du Corbeau est le nom d'un célèbre fait divers du début du siècle dernier, au cours duquel une jeune femme, pendant plusieurs années, adresse, dépose ou placarde, aux quatre coins de la ville, quantité de lettres,…

When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him for years but none of…

“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.”…

Moving beyond the usual genres of form in graphic design’s canonical history, Designing History proposes a model centred on bureaucratic instruments of identity, ownership, value, and permission: money, passports,…

The weather in London during the late sumer of 1972 was unusually cool and dry. Pale haze presaging autumn. The mood of the city was changing: a domain between sleeping and waking, as though the wavelength-wandering…

[Back in stock] More spit on Hegel! A collection of new translations of significant texts by two poles of Italian feminist thought—Leopoldina Fortunati and Carla Lonzi—to examine the “unexpected subject” of women in society…

« Jusqu’à ce que cela finisse par apparaître comme une chose aussi dégradante et redoutée que la vieillesse ou que la mort, d’appartenir au monde des riches. »

Nicole a 16 ans et mauvaise réputation. Celle…

Started in 1989 by designer and writer Robert Ford, THING magazine was the voice of the Queer Black music and art scene in the early 1990s. Ford and his editors were part of the burgeoning House music scene, which…

WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS BOOK:
* tentacle sex
* Kathy Acker
* the violent deaths of male genius artists, philosophers and theorists
* zombies
* sirens
* biohacking
* rampant plagiarism

This book is about damage and violence, about the ramifications of channeling intensity at all costs. It is a text that is utterly compelling, that you tumble into and cannot escape from. I fucking loved it.
—Dodie…

Linder first emerged in the late 1970s as a prominent figure within the dynamic landscapes of punk and post-punk music; her photomontage on the cover of Buzzcocks’ single Orgasm Addict in 1977 became…

After a decade out of print, this rare tarot deck, renowned for its unique vision and prophetic themes, returns in a highly anticipated new edition. The HEXEN 2.0 Tarot transports us to a hypnotic, mesmerising…

An unflinching tour of 200 years of enemy feminisms, from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion and TERF feminists. With verve and eloquence,…

This book is dedicated to my practice of exhibition making. I often think of an exhibition as a body, made up of all the parts that go into the different aspects of exhibiting. Exhibitionism does not give…

B A C K I N S T O C K A response to modernity’s most rancorous cynics and its most reckless tehno-fetishists. To navigate humanity’s pivotal century, Buterin proposes d/acc, a nuanced approach to technological…

In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines, and Catherine Lord mounted The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, a category-breaking exhibition of Black artists from different…

Pour le 1er Mai 1972, des femmes du Mouvement de libération des femmes de Genève rédigent un discours qui s’intitule « Femmes prenons la parole ». Quatre ans plus tars, à Genève, Rome, Zurich, des femmes produisent et…

La publication Dance First Think Later – Le corps pensant entre danse et arts visuels fait suite à l’exposition-festiva du même titre, présentée à Genève en été 2020, en la documentant par une riche iconographie,…

Nikki Tempest fait repousser ses tentacules coupés, comme le font les poulpes. À la fin d’un amour tragique en 2019, elle commence un parcours de rétablissement long et douloureux, qu’elle fait pour elle aussi bien que…

Described by those who knew him best as a Buddha, a Merlin, and “a cross between Brer Rabbit and St. Francis of Assisi,” the artist Beauford Delaney was anything but ordinary. James Baldwin, his closest friend, wrote that…

ferme les yeux comme un tunnel voulu/
me dis que ca commence comme ca -
la douceur     de la couleur    dans l oeil fermé
rien n a d’ importance
a part les ondes é les voix

Who is the Oriental Cyborg? asks Aditi Kini in this collection of notes, jokes, and queries into the provenance of a creature designed for labor, 3-D printed in the technoscientific post-colonies, modeled on old automata.…

The specimen for Signs, a new modern and multipurpose typeface designed by Maximage between 2018 and 2021. It was inspired principally by mid-20th-century typefaces designed for signage and used in the architecture industry.…

Une introduction à la pratique unique de la peinture et du dessin que l’artiste colombienne Emma Reyes a développée du milieu des années 1940 au début des années 2000 en Argentine, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Italie,…

Gathering Suzon, a new collection of writings by Raimundas Malašauskas, and a reprint of the sold-out book Paper Exhibitions from 2012, this book offers a window onto the legendary Lithuanian curator’s…

mon congélateur était vide mon estomac également mon cerveau passait la limite névrotique de l'obsession il était 16h48 l'heure du goûter allait bientôt être dépassée il me fallait de la glace

This title features the recovered and re-edited transcript of a 1998 conversation between artist Adrian Piper and philosopher Peter Osborne at Jerry’s restaurant in Soho, New York.

As Piper…

Is art obliged to engage with politics? If so, how? By taking sides in political struggle; by singing the song of the barricade, the new nation, the bombed city? Or by giving form to the deeper patterns of experience –…

Children’s books tell more than just stories. They stimulate the imagination, convey feelings and help young readers to explore the world. Many appeal to both children and adults alike through their idiosyncratic narratives,…

David King Publications 1977–2019 is the first published survey of David King’s book projects and graphic design work. David King (1948–2019) was a British born artist, graphic designer, and musician best known…

Writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000,…

What do we start with when telling a story — What tensions activate it — What does it promise — What do we want from it — How do we deliver it — Must it have an end — What about a story which never began — Stories we wish…

Jack Smith (1932-1989), cinéaste et artiste-performer multi-facettes de l’underground new-yorkais, vouait une admiration sans pareil à l’actrice Maria Montez, qui connut son heure de gloire à Hollywood dans des films d’aventures…

A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than a post-walk pint; a night hike on the Fens takes a terrifying turn…

Mike Kelley is best known as one of the most influential visual artists of his generation. But he was also an insightful theorist who wrote profusely about his work as well as on aesthetics in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s,…

No one can get out of their skin. This popular saying expresses the fact that each person has a skin. Each skin is therefore unique. It is a non-transferable document. Acting as a record, it details aspects of an individual…

From microbes meeting to speculative mindmaps and from cyclical calendars to mutually beneficial exchange-systems, this deck of 42 illustrated cards will help you get a deeper understanding of the world of fungi – recognising…

Compiling works from nearly five decades, Headwaters (and Other Short Fictions) provides the first comprehensive overview of the narrative and experimental writing of Lucy R. Lippard. While she is best known for…

To listen, then, is to fail at understanding in the traditional sense. It is to tremble and await, to dream, to explore and to remain open to the dissonance that arises in the encounter with otherness. Through failure,…

« Suite à un évènement, je commence une collection de formes. La première est trouvée et photographiée le jour de ma dernière rencontre avec J. Pour bien des raisons encore, je me mets à y voir des signes.
D’une…

Mais je sais que je l'ai vécu.

Meriem Laribi est journaliste indépendante. Tel un journal de bord, cet ouvrage retrace sa veille médiatique d'une année de génocide commis par Israël à Gaza du 7 octobre 2023 au 7 octobre 2024. Suivant les événements…

« Et si j’étais une sublime blessure à l’intérieur de laquelle les gens dansent ? »

Fuir la ville et retourner dans sa réserve, au nord de l’Alberta ; y trouver auprès des membres de la communauté la matière pour…

Tout un chacun une arme est un recueil du poète britannique Sean Bonney, qui pratiquait une poétique militante. La majorité des textes proviennent de Letters against the Firmament.

Ses « lettres » sont…

The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical…

How can we talk about violence against bodies, objects or nature in regions of conflict? What acts of brutality lie beneath these landscapes? And how to reflect on Western knowledge production…

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life who…

Darryl Cook is a cuckold, and that’s exactly how he likes it. He has an inheritance that spares him from work, a manageable and seemingly consequence-free drug habit, and a lovely wife called Mindy who’s generally game…

Why do some processes—like aging, birth, and car crashes—occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception…

Mushroom Fever  explores the history of the first mushroom club in New York City—the 19th century New York Mycological Club.

Cornelia C. Bedford founded the organization in 1897 with the goals of studying…

Written in response to three “physical” photographs, Broken Villas contains and considers how a vessel might clasp tightly to known volumetric identities, but also loom with a set of accentuated clues towards…

Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years, the images in Tender comprise a complete, personal self-portrait of a young, queer, Black woman intimately exploring…

Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children—and to thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt—Ariella Aïsha Azoulay examines…

Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled…

Hope you had a good Christmas. I did; played in the snow all morning, completely broke my glasses, went down in the subways & took 8 pictures of myself in a “4 for 25¢ machine,” worked on a self-portrait collage, went…

Satura comes from the Latin term satura lanx, meaning a dish filled with fruits intended for the gods, from which has descended a literary genre characterized by a variety of styles. In Italian, satura…

Announcing the inauguration of the Sori Yanagi Appreciation Society, this is also the first publication outside of Japan on one of the 20th century’s most important industrial designers. Sori Yanagi (1915–2011) is especially…

“Here’s a river of fire. Dive in, if you dare. It will clear the fog.”
—Arundhati Roy

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues…

Une incroyable destruction des bonnes manières du « Blanc, adulte et civilisé »
—Oswald de Andrade

Ce livre réunit trois textes d’Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954). Une retraduction du mythique « Manifeste…

This is a minute-by-minute depiction of a typical night at a legendary monthly house party known as ‘The Wickedest’. Here, we meet a vivid cast of characters, young and old, all surfing a revelry steeped in camaraderie,…

I’m at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them – for me it would be thousands of sex partners.

The 85-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” recounts the sixty-plus…

In her extraordinary non-fiction debut, Jacqueline Feldman tells the story of Le Bloc, a legendary squat situated at the far edge of Paris, near where the banlieue begins. Opened in 2012, the squat took in artists and…

In this series of poetic vignettes, award-winning poet Minnie Bruce Pratt explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender. As memoir, S/HE…

You are alive
for a moment
when living people
run after you.

Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza…

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“More than ten years ago, we watched Maboroshi, a Japanese movie by Kore-eda Hirokazu and were hypnotised by Wajima and the Noto region in Japan. A few years later we visited an…

Malandre is a magazine around latinx culture and club culture, specially focused on post-club music in the community and creating knots in sense along with decolonial theories and matters of deconstruction ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ.

Malandre…

This book documents the production of Céline Condorelli’s process-based, cumulative artwork titled Tools for Imagination. The title of the book raises the question of labour and working time,…

Learning from the inscription in the courtyard of the Ducal Palace of Urbino, Radim Peško, Jonathan Pierini and the students from ISIA Urbino consider different approaches based on the original letterforms from the renaissance…

Liberté du tissu qui s’échappe comme la vie elle-même. Laisser cette porte ouverte au mouvement, la laisser ouverte juste le temps qu’il faut pour contempler l’absence et se résigner…

This book names and wrestles with design and institutional design education’s pseudo-neutral relationship with colonial capitalist world orders and what it means to teach and design today. It slowly weaves together ideas…

Briar Levit’s design journey is as rich and unexpected as a forest hike. From the bustling offices of Bitch magazine to historic trails in Kent and the best Goodwills of Portland, her practice weaves through teaching,…

An artist-book/catalog published in the aftermath of Flint Jamison’s show, Installation View at Paid, Seattle, in Spring of 2023*. A matter of garage doors.

As often with the artist, we are faced with…

On ne peut comprendre la condition palestinienne sans comprendre l’assujettissement de la Palestine à l’impérialisme fossile depuis deux siècles. Tout commence en 1840, quand la victoire des Anglais sur les troupes ottomanes…

The third issue of Le Chauffage – an artist-run publication based in Brussels and Vancouver – is an inquiry into the relationship between the practices of artists / writers and their day jobs. This subject…

At the bottom of the ocean, I found the stars...

Mots Fleuves restitue le travail de Josèfa Ntjam réalisé lors de sa résidence au sein de LVMH Métiers d'Art.Josèfa Ntjam est une artiste, performeuse…

Since the 1970s, Cynthia Hawkins (born 1950) has investigated the potentials of abstract painting. Her process-oriented practice embraces the improvisational to create a space for her continually evolving vocabulary. From…