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Join us and poets Michael Nardone and Abigail Lang, for a conversation around Convivialities: Dialogues on Poetics.
Edited by Nardone, Convivialities is a collection of dialogues with artists…
Lyrical drifts warped by syntax into blizzarding softness; odes to beauty, meaning, and inexperience splintered by history and grammar. An aqueous surface marbled with the lightest…
Physique showcases over 250 rare physique photography prints from the private collection of renowned critic and curator Vince Aletti. Spanning the 1930s to the early 1960s, these photographs chronicle a hidden,…
He said he would understand if it was too much for me, that I could leave him, that I was young, I should be living, I said to him, I am living.
Johnny Grant faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers,…
I Am Abandoned documents a little-known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (known today as…
'Sah-ten' صحتين is the Arabic equivalent to ‘bon appetit’. It roughly translates to ‘two healths', and is often said in Palestine when food is placed on the table.
The book is a portrait of the skateboarding scene…
Fashion & Interiors. A Gendered Affair explores the relationship between fashion and interiors from a gender perspective.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, bourgeois ladies embellished both…
Artist François Pain (b. 1945) worked at psychiatric clinic La Borde where he met major representatives of Institutional Psychotherapy Francesc Tosquelles, Jean Oury, and Félix Guattari. Pain became the leading film chronicler…
Gran Fury (1988–95) was a New York–based activist artist collective that emerged from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an organization founded in 1987 to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United…
COUSIN Collective and Light Industry present the first critical anthology devoted to Indigenous experimental cinema. Temporal Territories brings together newly commissioned pieces alongside reprints of…
Héctor Viel Temperley (Buenos Aires, 1933-1987) écrit Hôpital Britannique peu de temps avant de mourir. Dans un entretien que nous avons intégré à cette édition, il précise les circonstances dans lesquelles ce…
The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher's long-time exploration of Hanne Darboven's Künstlerinnenhaus and at the same time continues her own work on "dream houses." The Viennese artist's photographs provide sensitive…
This is a book for all of those who need the rave. Who need to dance. Who have at some point needed that beat in their lives. This is a book for all those who have journeyed through the night, through sound, through movement,…
This book, A Model, parallels the exhibition A Model at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. The museum’s director Bettina Steinbrügge conceived this exhibition as a conversation with…
Lapo Tanbou ka ekzaminé Matinitjé kon an zouti pou libérasion kolektif Matinitjé é kon an manniè pou eksprimé kò-nou, an pratik mizikal é dansé bèlè. Adan zin-tala, langa a ka man ka eksploré’y pou nou pé sa konprann…
Pontus Hultén (1924 – 2006) was a pioneering art curator who fundamentally reshaped the relationship between art, museums and society. He played a pivotal role in founding cultural institutions such as Moderna Museet,…
!! Jack Whitten <3 <3 Over nearly six decades, he dared to invent new forms of abstraction, constantly transforming both perception and our understanding of art in society. Raised in the segregated Jim Crow South in the…
Le quatrième numéro de la revue Le Signe Design, Cahiers du centre national du graphisme, est placé sous le signe du Japon, en lien avec trois expositions qui ont été présentées au Signe en 2022 et 2023 : Mangas,…
In this fictional work by Isabelle Graw, fear indeed eats the soul of the protagonist as she struggles to survive in a world increasingly defined and divided by money, addressing the situation with psychoanalytic depth.…
When you’re a good painter, you know how to put the paint on just where you want it and sometimes mine fails meserably but I can think up the dieas. The art has to do with ideas here.
—Gertrude Abercrombie
This…
Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control:…
Numéro inaugural de la revue Bye Bye Binary – éditée par la collective franco-belge du même nom !
Bye Bye Binary explore de nouvelles formes typo·graphiques adaptées à la langue française en prenant pour…
« Bonjour Estelle, Bonjour Robyn,
Je m’imaginais vous écrire une lettre pour vous proposer de réaliser ce numéro tout à fait spécial, magiquement hors-série. Car pour la première fois, il s'agit d'une proposition…
"It's like when you go to read your own poetry, you get all choked up" DJ
A significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative scenes, Daniel Johnston inspired musicians and listeners for decades. From his…
Titles beginning with “The Man Who…” have become a prevalent trope in storytelling over the past century and a half. Compiling 243 titles from 1869 to 2023 across literature, theater, and film, this collection lays bare…
Through newly commissioned essays from music historians Wolfram Knauer and Richie Unterberger, journalist Ignacio Juliá (“On Signing the Velevet Underground and Nico” ;), and essayist Pacôme Thiellement, this book, the…
Naseej, meaning “tapestry” in Arabic, is a book about diverse forms of life, communities, histories and continuities in Palestine. It compiles essays, short stories, poetry, interviews, and visual art to tell…
En 1968, Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael quittent les États-Unis pour s’installer à Conakry, capitale de la Guinée socialiste. Réfugiés politiques en exil, la chanteuse sud-africaine mondialement connue et le militant…
From social media to so-called ‘AI’, from cyberpunk society to automated apartheid, The New Flesh asks and answers the same questions: What does it mean to live in an increasingly online world and what is it doing…
I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.
Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories…
The Compost Reader series sees the world as an interconnected being, where all its parts relate to one another. Composting as a way of cultivating consciousness through questions instead of answers, and…
Fatal*e et Arthure Rimbaud constatent que le langage est épuisé. Il n’y a pas de riposte possible puisqu’il n’y a plus d’accroche. Alors, elles entrent en résistance. Fatal*e est une épopée contemporaine avec…
« Je me sens moins abimée ces derniers temps. Oh, pas saine d’esprit pour autant, certainement pas normale, ni même belle (certainement pas belle), mais puissante, secrète, sagace. Et bon sang, j’adore ça. »
Six…
Ce monde est chaotique […] C’est pour ça que nous fuyons, car nous pensons que c’est la seule façon d’être libres.
—Pirateflavor (Tumblr, 2023)
Valentina Tanni nous guide à travers la culture web…
In The Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender.
Drawing on the history of “romance”…
This book is the final piece of an international project initiated in Portugal, which has established an online archive for experimental underground and protest sounds – encompassing both the “real socialism” of Eastern…
All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection,…
A transdisciplinary and experimental collection of critical and artistic engagements with listening as both a practice and a way of being.
Featuring contributions from an extensive roster of international thinkers,…
![SHIN, Sarah; TAMÁS, Rebecca (eds.) - Spells. 21st Century Occult Poetry [new edition] (Silver Press)](/assets/images/products/_image-cache/28181/spells.4045f900.jpg "SHIN, Sarah; TAMÁS, Rebecca (eds.) - Spells. 21st Century Occult Poetry [new edition] (Silver Press)")
Expanded edition!
Spells are poems; poetry is spelling.
Spell-poems take us into a realm where words can influence the universe.
Spells…
Continuities and ruptures between the early Soviet (c.1917) and late state socialist (c.1980s) periods are examined through detailed discussions of a wide range of women’s artistic practices, including Liubov Popova, Varvara…
Get down on your knees for BUTT no. 36. The thickest and most holy issue yet is filled cover to cover with revelations from passionate queens around the world. There’s a lot to gag over inside the alternatingly porny and…
Books in dreams were once made of scrolls and parchments. Once, books in dreams could only manifest themselves as clay. Scratches became meaningful. Books still tumble down. Most rooms are flooded; the waters are generally…
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Or, it seems, without a few thousand followers and a designer stove. Food is everywhere these days, from jello-sculpting reels and fermentation pop-ups to bike deliveries…
This book accompanies the exhibition KI$$ KI$$ at Haus der Kunst München. It features sketches, photographs, and work concepts by Shu Lea Cheang, a conversation between the artist and curator Sarah Johanna Theurer,…
The seventh volume of the series dedicated to the life and work of Ilya Zdanevich - Iliazd presents the first English translation of the “Albanian” issue of Bloodless Murder magazine, published in Petrograd…
Special expanded 5th edition! This manifesto talks to core of GenderFail collecting and archiving practices that looks to the softness as a metaphor for both the material and content of artist made publications. The GenderFail…
… nos monuments sont partout,
absolument partout, au fond de la mer
et dans les quartiers sans lumière
où gémit le Rabòday,
sur les murs défoncés de Pointe-à-Pitre… les femmes folles…
BACK IN STOCK! 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…
A collection of essays on one of the most important living Black artists of our time, David Hammons (b. 1943). Documenting five decades of visual practice from 1982 to the present, this book features contributions from…
8 years of writing prompts, movement activities, research, and experiences from LA Warman’s iconic anti-school, Warman School. Over 1500 students have passed through the hallowed halls of a Warman School Zoom room; you…
Composé à la fois de récits personnels, de citations et de collages provenant notamment du New York Times, New York Temps suggère une discontinuité des états intérieurs, accentuée par la multiplicité des orateur.ices…
Il est possible, à partir de l’œuvre de Gramsci, de penser l’émergence du fascisme historique de manière à mieux reconnaître ses nouveaux variants et mieux le combattre aujourd’hui. Étant donnée la situation politique…
Motherhood is a theme that stands at the core of life, but has nevertheless been kept in the private sphere for a long time, haunted by clichés, stigmas and myths. Motherhood has always been seen as trivial, not as a subject…
Mindblowing. On the occasion of his exhibition, Weltraum, at the Albertinum in Dresden, Wolfgang Tillmans has created a unique artist’s book that places his four decades of artistic practice in a thoughtprovoking…
Three Swiss companies manufactured type for typewriters between the 1940s and 1990s: Caractères SA, Setag and Novatype. For over fifty years, they supplied leading office machine manufacturers in Europe and around the…
I often find myself wanting to get as far from the present as possible. Recently I’ve been obsessed with the extreme past. People of 20,000 years ago possessed creative and capable minds—the same as ours, apparently—and…
Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: a socio-economic argument against ageism, celebrating the “elderly” as economically viable. Instead, Simon(e) van Saarloos presents a radical critique…
SONDUKE (“صندوق”— Arabic for crate, vault, or safe) is an Arab Gulf based independent digital platform featuring regional and global experimental and industrial art and sound. The ‘interiority’ signaled by the name Sonduke…
Hi! I’m Francis. I spend most of my time thinking about a guy named Simon. He is a hot club promoter who put in me a few times. He used to sleep with a ton of people! But now, he’s in a monogamous relationship with…
Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon…
Bringing together analyses from different fields—law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis—Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn’t just a metaphor. It’s the operating…
A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive. And although this mostly happens unconsciously, in a society plagued by anxiety,…
The discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area—text generation, as it happens, was not invented yesterday in Silicon Valley. This anthology,…
In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation…
This is a monumental and extensive work from someone who is arguably the most well-versed scholar of Baudrillard, Deleuze & Laruelle in the German-speaking world, Achim Szepanski, the original founder of Mille Plateaux,…
Flying Freehold takes its title from the legal term for property extending into spaces it does not own, paralleling the fragmented and impermanent nature of modern life. It reflects on the paradox of claiming…
This book, by no means complete nor comprehensive, contains something like one hundred and twenty descriptions: re-readings of fifty years’ work and the materiality of production . . . These are numbered according…
On nous aura tout revendu, même notre mort. C’est l’infini dans un suicide et le suicide dans un miroir.
Haïr unit, c’est peut-être la moindre des choses.
Haïr le monde, c’est désirer la…
A Woman is a School is the first memoir and cultural anthropological book by Slow Factory founder, Céline Semaan. As a war-survivor and child refugee sharing endangered and discredited ancestral knowledge of the…
Slumber Party Massacre, directed by Amy Jones [and written by Rita Mae Brown; Pet Sematary, directed by Mary Lambert; Near Dark, directed by Kathryn Bigelow; American Psycho, directed…
![WHITTEN, Jack; SIEGEL, Katy (ed.) - Notes from the Woodshed [2d Edition] (Hauser & Wirth)](/assets/images/products/_image-cache/35325/whittenwoodshed2.4045f900.jpg "WHITTEN, Jack; SIEGEL, Katy (ed.) - Notes from the Woodshed [2d Edition] (Hauser & Wirth)")
Writing occupied a fundamental place in Jack Whitten’s artistic practice and in his day-to-day life, weaving the two together. Notes from the Woodshed gathers the artist’s daily logs, longer essayistic entries,…
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…
As a rule, I always look for green objects in charity and antique shops. It’s a particular kind of green I have in mind, a kind of deep jade, or, if made of glass or plastic, emerald. It’s so I have one particular…
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…
![FIRESTONE, Shulamith - Airless Spaces [new edition] (Semiotext(e))](/assets/images/products/_image-cache/35380/airless.4045f900.jpg "FIRESTONE, Shulamith - Airless Spaces [new edition] (Semiotext(e))")
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…