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A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post-Woodstock implosion.
Between 1967 and 1971 Rose Simpson lived with the Incredible String Band (Mike Heron, Robin…
This book compiles, in loose chronological order, some of the many pictures that Rachel Harrison and Haim Steinbach exchanged via text-message between 2008 and 2020.
Through humour and visual wit that ranges between…
Peaux blanches, masques noirs, à travers l’histoire des ménestrels du blackface, explore la longue mutation d’un lore limité aux frontières d’un marché multi-ethnique en une véritable culture populaire atlantique…
imagi-nation nwar – genealogies of the black radical imagination in the francophone world
de-composed, an-arranged and re-produced by Chimurenga
feat. Mongo Beti & Odile Biyidi’s Peuples Noirs, Peuples…
Back Office est une revue annuelle entre design graphique et pratiques numériques. Elle explore les processus de création en jeu dans la diversité des médias et des pratiques numériques contemporaines. En traitant…
“May we want to reckon the time of the position ‘student’ not from the progressive aspect of amateur towards pro. Besides the fact that every step of life is an ongoing learning, there’s a clear physical (virtual) circumstance…
A collection gathering readings for discussions on ending gender oppression, not by the proliferation or liberation of gender(s), but by its catastrophic cancellation. The reader brings together writings as old as 1883…
We are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate…
This zine is a great introduction to identifying, foraging, and using what the authors term “weeds” and “common plants.” The authors wrote it to be an introductory-level guide for anarchists to get more acquainted with…
A woman answers a Craigslist ad (to write erotic diaries for money). A woman walks onto a tennis court (from her home at the bottom of the ocean). A woman goes to the supermarket and meets a friend’s husband (who happens…
As a child, Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life…
“Clearly ‘shit mom’ can be taken in several ways. Most obviously, it would seem, the title adopted by Tala Madani for her latest series of paintings (and for her book) refers to a mother who is bad, or ‘shitty’, at her…
La magie du monde moderne nous empêche d’identifier nos technologies et notre économie, issues de la révolution industrielle, à l’accaparement de l’énergie, du temps de travail et des terres au profit d’une minorité. Démontrant…
Black Art Notes is a collection of essays edited by artist and organizer Tom Lloyd. Originally published in 1971, the book was conceived as a critical response to the Contemporary Black Artists in America exhibition…
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for the entire human species, based on the subversive and transformative lessons of marine mammals. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has spent hundreds of hours watching our aquatic cousins.…
Autofiction. Emily Segal, artist and trend forecaster in her 20s, tries to tell the future by reading the present. Literature finds commercial form in the shape of eXe, a mysterious and well-funded Internet start-up that…
A special archival issue, featuring unpublished Martin Margiela lookbook photographs, a horse, street style from the 90's, vases of Japan, a silver story, a flash forward and back, tennis, an icecube tray, more Margiela,…
Élodie Petit et Marguerin Le Louvier écrivent des poèmes brûlants, sexuels, politiques et les autoéditent depuis leurs chambres sous la bannière commune des Éditions Douteuses. En une décennie, ils produiront des dizaines…
Entre Dublin, l'Oregon, Paris et l'hyper-espace, la nouvelle EAAPES est arrivée, conçue comme une vieux disque dur qui contient des cryptos-freaks secrètes, des groupes de rêves, des coups de gueule féministes d'antan,…
From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's "DIY" movement, from theoretical writings on the position of craft in distinction to Art and Design to how-to texts from renowned…
The new issue of Girls Like Us, guest-edited by the Swedish queer art and architecture collective MYCKET, is dedicated to The Club Scene. Amazing ephemera from clubs is interlaced with a script-like conversation…
Ce document poétique est basé sur des archives des dossiers de procédure personnelle d'un tribunal militaire en Algérie entre 1954 et 1963. Ces dossiers sont des archives soumises à dérogation que l'auteur, également historien,…
This long-awaited monograph presents the breadth of JB Blunk's practice and includes never-before-seen archival and newly commissioned photographs of jewelry, ceramics, paintings, furniture, sculpture and his hand built…
On prosody, “poet-voice,” and the politics of delivery.
“Following a political impulse that I cannot shake, I want to oppose poet-voice. Not to smirk, but to suggest that poet-voice, that is, to lay a given…
Dedicated to the incredible – and incredibly beautiful – publication Triple Jeopardy (1971–75, by the Third World Women’s Alliance), as well as the ideas in Sophie Lewis’s book Full Surrogacy Now! Feminism…
Des relations intimes aux politiques globales, Sarah Schulman fait le constat d’un continuum : individus comme États font souvent basculer les situations conflictuelles dans le registre de l’agression, criminalisant leurs…
In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam…
This is a chapter in which nothing happens. (Even more
so than usual).
I am taking a day off, to lie on the floor.
My yoga mat purple corrugated mousse sticks
slightly…
It’s 4:50 am, without an alarm clock ringing, the rage comes out, why ? Sherian Mohammed Forster questions the abstract patterns that get into our heart and hurt, from Instagram trends to planes that take off with or without…
Yesterday as they smoked, a cigarette butt leaked and burned
their delicately stitched summertime pyjamas. A round hole
on their torso reminded the holes drilled in the wall the day
before to ventilate…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was… 1996—a year artist Matt Keegan proposes an in-depth study of, in this multivocal, multi-layered publication. It aims at, as he puts it, “a critical analysis…
Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen. For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation:…
“Bezna” in Romanian means consistent darkness + diffuse fear. Bezna is darkly glowing dead thinking, cosmic pessimism, hairy autonomy, inner reptilians, limbo sighs, horrendous pink volumes, underground nematodes, happy…
En novembre 2019, Paul Preciado s'exprime devant 3500 psychanalystes lors des journées internationales de l'Ecole de la Cause Freudienne à Paris. Devant la profession qui l'a diagnostiqué « malade mental » et « dysphorique…
A collection of writings by Claire Fontaine, addressing our complicity with anything that limits our freedom, Human Strike… presents, in chronological order, all the texts by the feminist, conceptual…
Trois interviews télévisuelles de l’écrivain Guillaume Dustan, deux de 1999 et une de 2001, de l’auteur de Dans ma chambre ou Nicolas Pages. Retranscrits par un outil automatisé de YouTube,…
In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine,…
“A tribute to Heliczer’s creative mind and to the man himself by friends, admirers and people Heliczer worked with”—to quote Counter Culture Chronicles’ René van der Voort—this book, printed in Risograph, gathers poetry,…
Et oui, Jack Kerouac did write about Murnau’s Nosferatu! It was in the early 1960s, as the New York Film Society invited him to introduce a film of his choice: the notes were then printed as a small handout. In…
Cet ouvrage tente de rassembler en quelques chapitres les grands enjeux soulevés par Silvia Federici autour de la notion de sorcières et de chasse aux sorcières. Le public a connu (et reconnu) Federici à travers son magnum…
De toutes les musiques populaires contemporaines, le rap est celle que l'on associe le plus communément à l'expression d'un discours misogyne. Mais si les rappeuses elles-mêmes décrivent souvent l'industrie du rap comme…
Voguing came dut of the extraordinary house ballroom scene that emerged in Harlem, New Yark in the 1980s in which African-American and Latino gay and transgender communities competed against one another for their dancing…
Kolkata: City of Print, created by Swiss artist Mara Züst (born 1976), focuses on the rich heritage and present abundance of the print medium in this Indian city long famed for its literary and publishing culture.…
« Il entendait les portières des voitures claquer et le son strident de la propriété. Il déchiffrait sur chaque visage une vie de labeur et d’envie, une existence propre, aussi complexe que la sienne, un enchevêtrement…
Iranian graphic designer Béhzad Golpayegani (1938–1985) worked in 1970s for various journals and designed numerous book covers for Franklin Publications, a publisher of pocket-sized paperbacks. In those years he created…
“Only artworks are capable of transmitting chthonic echo-signals,” Susan Howe has said. In Concordance, she has created a fresh body of work transmitting vital signals from a variety of archives. “Since,” a semiautobiographical…
{Beyond this “new” cover, there is a beaufitul facsimile of Dictée.}
Dictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography…
Un livre d’ondes, de signaux reçus et transcrits jour après jour. Entre le début du mois de mars et la fin du mois de mai 2020, depuis le boulevard de la Libération à Marseille, l’auteur s’est branché sur les discours…
As of summer 2020, the “restoration of natural order” is back on the agenda of many alt-right movements across the world, and “unnatural” sexual orientations and behaviors are still condemnent to imprisonment, corporal…
This book is the first full-length biography to be written about the American composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos (b. 1939). With her debut album, Switched-On Bach, Carlos brought the sound of the Moog synthesizer…
Audimat est une revue de critique musicale/sociale et présente une écriture sur la musique libérée des contraintes d'actualité et des formats de la presse périodique. Ce quatorzième numéro aborde l'actualité des rapports…
“As a collection of writing by trans people against capital and empire, this book attempts to piece together these multiple points of overlap between the subjective, interpersonal, and everyday modes of trans life, and…
In 1950s London, a cadre of young artists, theorists, and popular culture aficionados known as the Independent Group (IG) came together for a series of pressing meetings. Their humble goal: to reimagine the structure of…
Superstructures (Notes on Experimental Jetset / Volume 2) is an inquiry into the role of the city as an infrastructure for language (and simultaneously, into the role of language as an infrastructure for the city),…
THE KID THE COP SHOT
Often it is about the sound,
Alignement of syllables in mental spaces,
Throat of glottal stops more than meaning. [...]
Le 12 novembre 2016, un an après les attentats qui y avaient fait des dizaines de victimes, le Bataclan rouvre…
Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all,…
American sci-fi author Mark von Schlegell reflects on a dialogue of works by American painter Wade Guyton and Josef Albers. Von Schlegell shows how, building upon Albers’ exploration of minimalist visual language, Guyton…
Once confined to the narrow circle of "medicalizing" practices, the prosthesis finally colonized our imagination thanks to the promise of an "augmented body" capable of undermining traditional dichotomies such as artificial…
Dedicated to the occult, Klima #3 continues the last issue's line of questioning, this time turning its gaze towards the spiritual dimension that emerges from the various encounters and cohabitations of the living and…
The richly illustrated volume offers the occasion to discover a singular yet little-known body of work on the borders of the art world. The practice of the late American-born, Swiss-based artist Cathy Josefowitz (1956–2014),…
Guest edited/curated by Sarah Hennies and Anna Roberts-Gevalt, two of American's most forward-looking practitioners in the experimental and folk fields respectively, SA25 takes on questions of a musical community, and…
A window into the preservation of contemporary feminist documents and artifacts, and how this archival activism has advanced intergenerational political alliance.
Kathryn Yusoff examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. She initiates a transdisciplinary conversation…
LatinX, according to Claudia Milian, is the most powerful conceptual tool of the Latino/a present, an itinerary whose analytic routes incorporate the Global South and ecological devastation. Milian’s trailblazing study…
“Two clock-faces are staring at each other.
They are two sides of one thing, as different as they are the same.
They move as two bodies revolving around each other, into a tender embrace.
A kiss, made of…
Concurrently: ode, elegy, satyre, Boeing Nº 737-800 in F♯m awakes and takes off, lands and falls asleep, in between cold sweats and time zones. Triangulating the distance from ground to body, moving though still, to sun,…
Founded in 2018, LIFTA is a space led by the imagination. Prioritizing collaboration and humancentric processes, LIFTA develops projects across different mediums including publications, exhibitions, and film. Crafted by…
Contemplating Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo’s (1935-90) work in the 21st century provokes a sense of the uncanny on multiple levels: grotesquely beautiful on their own, his abject sculptures seem to foretell today’s environmental…
An artist whose beautiful, restrained and often mutable works are abundant in compelling contradictions, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957−1996) was committed to a democratic form of art informed as much by aesthetic and conceptual…
Amelie von Wulffen’s amazing comics—or ego-comics, as she calls them—gathered for the same time: hilarious, nightmarish, vividly drawn tales from the daily life of a woman artist, depicting social embarrassments, emotional…
The Convent of Pleasure is a play written by Margaret Cavendish in 1668. The play is a comedy about noblewomen who choose to retreat to a convent to create their own community in order to avoid the constraints…
Attention pays. In today‘s online economy it has become a commodity to be bought and sold. Bombarding us with free smartphone apps and news websites, developers and advertisers…
Ce livre réunit tous les textes de John Berger sur les artistes, et il mérite pour cette seule raison la plus grande attention. Il est, nous dit Tom Overton, comme son autoportrait. Il est, pourrait-on dire aussi, son…
An oral history of the UK’s soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and others.
For years an out-of-print rarity, Michael Snow’s classic artist book Cover to Cover is available once again, in a facsimile edition from Light Industry and Primary Information. Never bound by discipline, Snow…
Shame Space is an artist book that explores the possibilities of narrative and identity. The book collects a selection of journal writings by Syms from 2015-2017 in which she…
In Strangers, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times.
From ‘On Watermelon’ to ‘On Grief’,…
Vers un nouveau manifeste montre Theodor W. Adorno et Max Horkheimer dans un échange d’idées unique, animé et fluide. Ce livre est un compte rendu de leurs discussions pendant trois semaines au printemps 1956,…
The Keramikos book presents front-and-back photographic records of 300 painted pieces that artists Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Natsuko Uchino produced since 2010 - including plates, bowls, pitchers and oil jars. Some objects…
Amazing photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed gay and transvestite bars.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s,…
Pedro Neves Marques’ first poetry collection includes two sets of poems written between 2017 and 2019 and spans the author’s biographical geographies, from Brazil and Lisbon to London and New York. From precise geometries…
Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources (thereby…
La conception d’un livre suit-elle uniquement un processus logique et réfléchi ? Du choix d’un caractère typographique et de son corps à celui de la disposition des blocs de texte, le designer graphique et typographe suisse…
Cette histoire exhaustive du glam rock par l'auteur de Rétromania (Le Mot et le reste) réussit, alors même qu'elle revient sur des artistes des sixties et seventies, à nous propulser dans une réflexion d'une actualité…
This year’s Annual is published in tandem with a long-term installation of The Serving Library’s collection of (mostly) framed objects at 019, an artist-run space in a former welding factory in Ghent, Belgium.…
A collection of 41 monoprints created by Karel Martens in 2019 and 2020, reproduced on their original size (front and back). Karel Martens: "In 2018 I received a package by mail from Pierre Leguillon with a small pile…
Anthologie bilingue, ce numéro double présente une quinzaine de jeunes écrivains oeuvrant dans les poétiques radicales et expérimentales du XXIe siècle, afin d’ausculter la façon dont les formes, les discours et les
“Exactly three decades after the inaugural issue of TZK was published, we return to the question of where the hard-won and still-embattled rights of women* stand. With this issue, entitled ‘The Feminist’, we celebrate…
Pouvait-on changer de genre au Moyen Âge ? Vivre en homme et devenir sainte ? Naître fille et finir chevalier ? Changer d’habits comme d’identité durant cette période dominée par la chrétienté ?
Pour faire taire les…
Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart…
So, so thick. 320 pages for this new* F.R.DAVID. “Somebody did some work during the quarantine.” “Very good.” So, E is for Eeyore, aka Bourriquet.
“I stood flapping my arms, first the left and then the…
La vie de Jacqueline De Jong fait penser à un roman : multipliant les expériences professionnelles (assistante de Willem Sandberg, célèbre directeur de musée, l'une des rares femmes de l'International Situationniste, éditrice…
An essential selection of the poetry of one of the most important twentieth-century creative movements.
Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought;…
We can't go back, but we don't want to. Nor can we go on like this much longer. What will emerge from such a transitional phase, when the civic body is so lacking in health (physical, moral, political and economic)?
The…
Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 is expansive anthology focused on concrete poetry written by women in the groundbreaking movement’s early history. It features 50 writers and artists from Europe, Japan, Latin…
Qu’est-ce que le Stack ? Une autre façon de concevoir et d’imaginer cette nouvelle réalité qu’est l’Internet. En moins de trois décennies, nos modes de vie et nos rapports de pouvoir ont été bouleversés. Or le réseau des…
We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new…