Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit and umbrella, Satie was…
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A disaffected young woman seeking self-estrangement and withdrawal from the world decides to quit her day job as a bookseller to live out, or live in, an experiment: to become a full-time narrator. She moves through sentences,…
Essential! Originating from a survey publication proposal found in Jef Geys’ archive, Catalogue Raisonnable is a meticulously assembled monograph that brings together extensive archival research, translations…
The heart of this book is a series of letters exchanged between two friends in 2020. Fox and Lane-McKinley found themselves unable to work on a book left unpublished at the death of their other friend, Christopher Chitty.…
An unlicensed facsimile of issues 1-3 of Bernadette Corporation’s legendary Made in USA magazine. All covers and pages are reproduced in duotone, with a different hue for each issue.
Issue 1,…
Past Words is three books in one: a collection of previously published texts and two exhibition-like experiments: A Year with Prem Krishnamurthy at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and Endless…
For this book – the second publication from Melody Lu published by Studio H13, this time in collaboration with Mexico City-based Can Can Press – Melody Lu worked with handmade / grattage textures to create background textures…
The extension of the desert of machines, unfinished works, and the swelling of the population in cities shifts us toward the patterns of an orchestrated chaos. In these visible and invisible manifestations of the anatomy…
While the largest parts of icebergs — or islands — remain beneath the sea surface, often unmapped and perilous, a myriad of creatures and non-organic matter connect them to other lands. Nowadays, in the era of the climate…
Paris jouit d’une aura planétaire. Elle est partout synonyme de beauté, d’élégance, de culture et de romantisme. Décrite par les auteurs les plus talentueux, représentée par les plus grands peintres, capturée par les photographes…
Criticism is in a crisis of authority—or rather, that’s what critics have been saying ever since the Enlightenment. In a magisterial new essay, Chu offers a revised intellectual history of this supposed crisis, tracing…
Première monographie consacrée à Donna Gottschalk, NOUS AUTRES rassemble une sélection inédite de ses images réalisées entre les années 1960 et 1990.
Le parcours de la photographe se déploie en regard…
Microinternational is a comprehensive catalogue documenting a performance project that emerged from the interactions of a shifting group of artists in Los Angeles. Active between 1993-1999 and organized by Kevin…
Featuring a myriad of extraordinary individuals whose charm, wit, and imagination pique the senses from contributors Angela Hill, Esther Theaker, Takashi Homma, Karoline Robl,Oliver Hadlee Pearch, Isabelle Sayer, Alexandra…
In The City and the World, Gregor Hens explores the city in the twenty-first century – a space we shape and are shaped by in turn – and our place within it. Travelling from Berlin to Las Vegas, Shenzhen to Santiago…
Marx a saisi que les origines du capitalisme furent imprimées dans l’histoire au moyen de caractères de feu et de sang. Dans ce recueil, George Caffentzis affirme qu’il est de même aujourd’hui. Illustrant…
—Somatic body healing pump?
—No: We need to provoke Something!
Oh oh this is the first issue of Tongue Ring, a journal of experimental writing in English & French, with original…
Depuis chaque semaine, au moment où le jour croise la nuit, l'arbre brûlé et l'arbre de Paris peuvent papoter.
Un livre d'artiste pour enfants avec un texte de Rosanna Puyol Boralevi…
This publication is a full-scale reproduction of Ken Isaacs' 1974 book How to Build your Own Living Structures. It is accompanied by an essay by Susan Snodgrass, critic and teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago,…
The first publication dedicated to historical African American quilts in California, Routed West traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration from 1940 to 1970. As millions…
This publication delves into the influential, yet underrecognized, work of artist and pedagogue Millie Wilson, who taught generations of artists at the California Institute of the Arts and whose work has deftly examined…
Pippa Garner’s work challenges the conventions of art by putting into play fashion and consumer culture with her subversive, visionary insight. Featuring a selection of images that includes never-before-seen photographs…
Over several decades, American filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa has constructed a compelling body of work that defies categorization. Both powerful and lyrical, his practice combines a profoundly unsettling blend of images…
Rêves Impossibles est le dernier roman de l’artiste Pati Hill. Il paraît en 1976 chez Alice James Books, deux ans après que certains extraits paraissent dans le Carolina Quarterly sous le titre « Une femme au…
Filmmaker, photographer and writer Chris Marker never adhered to the conventions of a particular art form. Each of his films, from La Jetée to Sans Soleil, pushes the boundaries of its medium, merging…
In the wild years of the 1980s and early 1990s, when central London was a clubbers’ paradise, a circle of young, queer friends, including the celebrated Australian designer, performer, musician, and provocateur Leigh Bowery…
The ultimate Forrest Bess monograph! With an essay by Amy Sillman : ) Published in the aftermath of the 2020 exhibition at the Fridericianum, this book offers an opportunity to discover one of the most extraordinary figures…
A visual collection of hardcore punk graphics, flyers, and poster art done by Hafiz. A taste of counterculture history in Singapore and beyond between 2015-2020. Capturing the raw and unapologetic energy that defines a…
Hervé Guibert’s photobook The Only Face is not a novel in the traditional sense, but it is filled with characters, settings, and mystery. It starts with bodies — their faces either eclipsed or out of frame — before…
Ce recueil de textes choisis et inédits en français offre une plongée dans le mouvement féministe américain du début des années 1970 et le rôle déterminant qu'y ont joué les lesbiennes. Entre 1969 et 1974, des textes majeurs…
In Irrational, artist Francesco Jodice and curator Francesco Zanot dissect the rise of irrationality in modern life and society through an extensive and thought-provoking array of visual case studies. Addressing…
In this book, Sven Lütticken invites readers into an exploration of history as accelerating catastrophe – and of alternative, oppositional, divergent practices in life, art and revolutionary thought. Set against the backdrop…
Starmen Poems, edited by Jes McCutchen, collects blackout poetry from Geraldine Hart's last trip home to Earth.
Taking world-building and character development into the…
Robert Earl Paige is one of the most iconic artists and designers from Chicago’s South Side. A multidisciplinary artist and arts educator, he works across textile design, painting, collage, and sculpture. During the 1970s,…
Key Operators focuses on the links between feminized labor, technological advancements, and their associated languages. The systems inscribed in weaving and coding serve as a point of departure for devising alternative…
“Insurrections was and is a project and an idea. The project brought together poets, composers and musicians from South Africa and India – although an Ethiopian or two crept in since to make description difficult! It was…
The space around it echoed, deflecting or reflecting sound, she wasn’t sure which. Sometimes at dawn, it was as though the birds were holding a private chorus inside. It had grown so large that as soon as the sun rose…
What is hardcore? It means many things to many people, and they’re all correct. It’s best described as a feeling, an attitude, a way of life. Dance or Die is the first critical study of city-based hard dance communities…
Derek Jarman’s unrealised film treatment, The Assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the Garden of Earthly Delights, takes as its subject matter the events leading up to and including the murder of Italian film…
Berthold Wolpe’s (1905–1989) first typeface, originally cut in Germany in 1932, underwent numerous name changes, from Wolpe Rursiv to Hyperion. While other designs by the typographer, such as Albertus, found success early,…
Quelques perles coulent entre ses doigts. Les récits de Larem se délient du temps que l’on connaît. Elle raconte, superpose, recule et avance, jouissant des temps qu’elle invoque.
Emma Berger-Pierre…
Slobbering, gibbering, and venomous. . .
a poetry seemingly stupefied that it is poetry at all.
Jourdain Barton is the most frightening poet of her generation.…
Karl Marx spent three consecutive summers in the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic) in 1874, 1875 and 1876. Egon Erwin Kisch’s 1946 text Karl Marx in Karlsbad reconstructs these three…
Unravelling the semantics of the ugly jumper, the ratty cardigan and the squishy mittens. Softness is a poetic reflection on hand- knitting and the neglected objects that give us nourishment. A straggly jumper,…
I acquired Sonia’s copy of Fraser Darlingʼs book in 2010 when my cousins, sister, and I were going through Soniaʼs house following her death. From one of her glassed-in bookshelves, the spineʼs distinctive artwork…
Twenty-three innovators from corresponding fields of practice – including art, education, philosophy, curating, public health, journalism, the church, museology, theatre, music, and anthropology – speculate about the benefit…
The texts published in Show Notes are the deconstructed diary entries of a frenzied writer attending fashion shows in London, Milan and Paris. Revised and rebooted from reports written for Wallpaper* magazine…
Hey culture worker! Are you feeling alone and afraid while the world burns? It’s Too Late. Do It Anyway! is two books in one, created for cultural workers who want to get off the racial capitalist high-speed-train-to-nowhere…
"Three Subtle Stories," told in 200 drawings on 28 pages, was created between January and May 1973 in Zurich and Carona and published in 1974 in a limited edition of 500 by Galerie Stähli in Lucerne. In 2014, "Three Subtle…
Voir l'initiale pour l'endroit où je veux aller dans un cercle, caractères très foncés. Je pense que c'est l'endroit où je veux. VEUX dans l'air. OK, pas vraiment envie d'aller dehors ce soir. CE SOIR en travers de…
En deux décennies, les services et les produits numériques ont pénétré nos quotidiens, connecté nos intérieurs et modifié nos villes, conférant un rôle stratégique aux entreprises qui les développent. À Paris, le fournisseur…
“This collection is such a lyrically beautiful and meaningful demonstration of her unwavering commitment to both acknowledging and being a part of an inspired community. These poems are powered by love and a belief system…
The festival is a space of communion and celebration, a romanticized collision of bodies, music and magic. The revolution will look like a festival, we’ve been told by philosophers, writers, artists, and marketers. But…
The first English translation of Leslie Kaplan's crystalline novella Miss Nobody Knows, about the lived aftermath of May '68: its hopes and failures and how they continue to resonate today.
“Ostensibly about the…
Youpidou! An acrobat, carpenter, railroad repairman, and two-time naval war veteran, sculptor H. C. Westermann (1922–1981) rose to prominence in Chicago in the 1950s with new forms inspired by his personal experiences.…
Abused by his father and stifled by closeted life as a teenager in Kansas City, Joe, the wide-eyed narrator of Tramps Like Us, graduates from high school in 1974 and hits the road hitchhiking. But it isn’t until…
Mobilisant différentes formes d’écriture (essai, récit, poème, journal) et des images photographiques tirées de sources diverses (archives personnelles, presse, portraits vernaculaires, etc.), Comment réparer : la…
This book offers a visual and thematic journey through avant-garde, concrete, visual, and experimental poetics as they appeared in ephemeral little magazines and small press publications from the 1960s onward. This book…
An adult woman haunted by her childhood muses on the foster system, institutions, and the medieval tale of a girl given to a witch. A genderqueer Brooklynite learns of their past life as a murdered sorceress. An uptight…
Should art be determined by political ideals? In recent decades art institutions have sought to embody liberal values of universal equality and social justice. This move toward greater inclusivity has borne witness to…
When Jean, a young translator of French and Russian, receives a mysterious commission, she leaps at the chance to escape her current life—and husband—and relocate to Montréal. Marriage has destroyed her sense of self,…
Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968) devoted his life to the creation of a new art form, the art of light, which he termed "Lumia." In the 1920s, Wilfred toured the US and Europe to great acclaim staging colored-light recitals with…
Une cinquième tendresse avec des textes de : Nanténé Traoré & Luz Volckmann, Corentin Garrido, Maïmouna Tirera, Cindy Bannani, Marguerin Le Louvier, Laura Vazquez, Tony…
Dans un contexte où le capitalisme et les grandes entreprises détruisent la planète avec une impunité croissante et où les guerres néocoloniales menacent les vies de toustes les vivant·es, de nombreuses sociétés sont sous…
From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, Mother Media tells the story of how we arrived at our contemporary understanding of what a mother is and how understandings of “bad” mothering formed…
Loïe Fuller’s (1862–1928) luminously radical dance performances at the turn of the century were unlike anything that had ever been staged or seen before. She was a true pioneer in creating special effects and using electricity…
“‘The two’ is not simply a couple, Le Deux at stake is neither a fusion of two into one, not a ‘two’ as a sum of one plus one. In a way, Le Deux is neither one (constituted of two complementary parts)…
Je crois qu’il n’y a rien à faire aujourd’hui, à part regarder MTV. Le classement des meilleurs clips de l’année.
Ce sera sûrement les Destiny’s Child.
Heureusement que j’ai un vélo et MTV.
À…
In Becoming Lesbian, historian Tamara Chaplin argues that the history of female same-sex intimacy is central to understanding the struggle to control the public sphere. This monumental study draws on undiscovered…
Everything Is Political (EIP) is a platform and community amplifying independent culture, research, and ideas with a bias towards freedom & liberation for all. A place to build power, infrastructure, and share…
Phylactère est une revue à voix multiples, née du désir d’explorer l’écriture de l’oralité et les possibilités de retranscription de performance, à travers des visions authentiques, subjectives et spontanées.…
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once.
But it’s beautiful here, even the ghosts agree. Mornings, when the light rinses this place the shade of oatmeal, they rise as mist over the rye across…
À rebours des opérations politiques libérales promettant à Marseille une hégémonie de capitale culturelle et économique, ce numéro s’ouvre à une pluralité de voix pour dire les désirs qui résistent aux fractures et aux…
The tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms explores the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue, whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis, and composition on tape has long evaded historical…
What is magic? And what can it do? In this book, Jessica Backsell interrogates the magic of the art world and culture’s stubborn habit of foregrounding art as representative of an alternative value system. Through the…
“The walls shift; sometimes they are stars, sometimes ruins, sometimes the skin of a planet I once walked in silence. There is a table, a chair made of woven air. Ink drips upward. Clocks melt into birds. I am where thought…
Stephanie Davidson dessine, enseigne, enquête, construit, converse, rencontre, relie dans un mouvement énergique et joyeux.
Avec Georg Rafailidis, sous le…
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Lesbians are allowed to do whatever they want.
"she blew up a planet"
Okay and? Your lesbophobia is showing.
Depuis…
« Et donc, il ne me manque que la parole ? Eh bien, c’est que vous êtes sourdingue. » Oui, car c’est un chat qui parle. Chemoule est un chat, un chat français. Ou plus exactement une chatte, mais à la naissance on a cru…
How often can you empty a bag of letters onto the ground and have them land as perfect sentences, or even as pieces of writing?
This is the 4th in a series of excellent books of writing by students…
The Leksell Stereotactic System is not a tool but a vow. To operate is to whisper into the folded gray. Error is blasphemy. Precision, the only liturgy.
From handmade to mechanized, from the body to the…
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while…
This book considers two modalities through which vision and motion have converged against the crises of late capitalism. The first is the dashcam recording that has proliferated in recent years, as seen in the accumulation…
ENGLISH / SPANISH edition. A dirty lil tale written and translated by Amalia Ulman in which a woman gets a job in El Cobrador del Frac, thanks to the gender equality policy executed by the government to diversify the workforce.…
A collection of Philippa Snow’s celebrated writing, Snow Business articulates with majestic precision the thorny, unbreakable bond between mass media, popular culture, and art. Kim Kardashian’s novel is as much…
“People don’t realize that they burst like fireworks”
Lots of plusieurs conversations in this new issue of dans ce 3e numéro de Suckcess, magazine in English and en français éditéd by K. Desbouis:…
Back in stock : ) 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,…
From credits to subtitles to title cards and beyond, texts play a critical role in cinema. Yet, away from the world of mainstream film, these textual—and visual—elements have often been overlooked. In Read Frame Type…
Oldie but goodie ; ) No more jobs, no more taxes, no more checkbook, no more bills, no more credit cards, no more credit, no more money, no more mortgages, no more rent, no more savings, no more junk mail, no more junk,…
La nouvelle catastrophe subie par le peuple palestinien à Gaza est pire que la Nakba de 1948. C’est le premier génocide perpétré par un État industriel avancé depuis 1945, avec la participation des États-Unis et le soutien…
Frances Bethune is desperate to lose weight before her husband’s return from India―in just two weeks. On the advice of a bad-breathed spirit, Frances undertakes…
⚑ BACK IN STOCK ☭ ☯︎
Celebrating what could have been but remains unlikely. One size fits all, bad hair days welcome. Disclaimer: book that hotel at your own risk ! // Une collaboration qui n'existe que dans (sur)…
“Over the last few years we have been collecting vintage bar mats from in and around Barcelona. A lot of these places have already closed but their incredible logos and stories live on. Here’s a compilation of our personal…
In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi, author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character…
The new numéro of la revue Habitante, avec des textes de Clara Baudy – sur une esthétique architecturale qui semble avoir émergé de son fil Instagram, l’Antespace –, de Lou Cavallo – « Qui érode le Sénégal…
A collection of dialogues with contemporary writers and artists conducted over great distances and extended periods of time. These conversations focus on poetics, both the theory of poetry (its forms, histories, and critical…
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,…
'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…