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Enfin la traduction en français du best-seller de Jen Calleja, qui sera présente pour une lecture croisée. Repassez vos capes et astiquez vos chaînettes.
La figure du gobelin est espiègle, marginale, répugnante…
À partir de 1972, le poète et critique d’art américain David Antin performe de longs monologues improvisés qu’il nomme talk poems («poèmes parlés»). Après les avoir enregistrés, l’auteur les transcrit en insérant des blancs…
BACK IN STOCK! A 208-page book that documents five tumultuous years when we learned how to live, create, and conspire on an increasingly adversarial internet. The original “Dark Forest Theory of the Internet” essay was…
L’Île-de-France a été engloutie. Submergée par de l’eau liquide. C’est à peu près tout ce que l’on sait. Crue est un long poème construit sur un rythme ternaire, une suite de tercets libres entrecoupés de symboles…
Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices…
Unimportant Clerks identifies a central tension in the writing of the New York School poets: at times their poetry replicates the ideology of bureaucracy while at others—and more persistently—it repudiates related…
Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia,…
Too many of our convictions about the fifty-four nations of Africa come from non-African sources. Western media often treat the continent as a simulacrum of Western anxieties. In contrast, Jeremy Harding focuses on specific…
SHE WILL CONSIDER THE CONCEPT OF MENOPAUSE AND ITS PATHOLOGICAL CODE AS ONE OF THE COVERT PRODUCTS OF MODERNITY.
Wow! Thanks Erin @ Cutt Press for republishing this while we are waiting for Riverwork…
Conceived as an anthology of the works and writings of the artist, author and educator Asier Mendizabal (Ordizia, 1973) from the last two decades, this book alternates between four different sections, four recurring modes:…
Écrit sous la dictature civilo-militaire en Uruguay, ce recueil part de l’apparente simplicité d’un coucher de soleil sur la mer pour déployer une poésie visuelle dissidente. Dix-neuf couchers de soleil sont chacun déclinés…
A new future for Mexico depends upon unearthing what colonialism has buried below the ground.
Situated deep within the ontological turn, this book brings together the…
"Black Power !" Un nom qui claque, signe d'une fureur noire américaine incarnée par Malcolm X, les Panthères noires, Angela Davis… Derrière ces archétypes des années 1960 et 1970, il y a un mouvement politique protéiforme…
Dans ce recueil bilingue français-arabe, Ghosoun Qtifan, Gazaouie exilée, porte un message d’espoir et de justice pour la Palestine. Elle met en mots l’extrême de la violence coloniale et génocidaire, celle de ces deux…
!! Attention must-read !! L’intelligence artificielle prétend percer le mystère de l’intelligence, dont le secret se cacherait dans l’esprit humain ou la physiologie du cerveau. À rebours de ce mythe, L’Œil…
The rabbi is, to the untrained eye, far from desirable. Lofty and disorderly, aging and constantly losing members of his flock, he is nonetheless the singular object of obsession for the self-abjecting narrator of My…
Otherhow brings together four decades of writings, lectures, interviews, and documentation of work by the artist Joseph Grigely. Deaf since the age of ten, his art and writing have long questioned and made use…
A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the…
Gilgamesh is a Babylonian story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with death; the destruction of nature; insomnia and restlessness, finding peace in one’s community, the voice of women,…
Why be the object when you can dive into yourself and archive your own adolescence? And what about this adolescence when it lasts until the late thirties, and expands beyond the traditional understanding of age group?
The Tinklers are Charles Brohawn & Chris Mason from Baltimore. They have been writing songs and making books, charts, and paintings in Baltimore since 1979, in kind of a Fluxusy way. This book combines 5 of their publications:
1. The…
Le communisme vient du futur, mais ses espoirs traversent notre passé. L’avenir de la révolution revisite les révolutions à travers leur histoire souterraine, négligée par l’historiographie dominante. En exhumant…
This volume of FAR-NEAR gathers the passions, rituals, ruminations and works of art that enliven us and release steam; that have the power to temper our fears and kindle inspiration through storytelling. From…
In 1974 the “street couture” shop Acme Attractions opened – and November 1975 saw the first Sex Pistols gig. Which makes it perfect timing for
Phil Strongman's Acme BOY - the stunning inside story of Acme, BOY,…
The 2010s were an exciting and contentious period in technology and culture. Amidst backlash against the growing power of big tech platforms, cryptocurrency technologies saw rapid adoption and blockchains became a serious…
Tendrils threads through grief, joy and solidarity toward futures shaped by collaboration and care. Reaching through ecological crises, these poems seek new ways of living kinship in the more-than-human world.
This…
In the shadow of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, resistance in Chile took many forms — including quiet stitches by hand. We Will Find Them: Arpilleras and the Political Art of Chile Under Pinochet reveals the…
In 1975, a young queer singer from Cleveland meets Nan Goldin and joins her in New York’s bombed-out downtown, where something unprecedented is brewing. At Max’s Kansas City and CBGBs, in derelict lofts and underground…
What exactly is cultural appropriation? At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one’s own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, always wrong; at the other…
After Gaza, it is time to recognize that the attempt to humanize history has failed, and that there will not be a second try. It is time to recognize that the experiment called “civilization” has failed… The abyss…
A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas’s…
Comment la mode est-elle parvenue à accéder à une forme de reconnaissance en tant que création artistique ? Le deuxième tome de L’Idée de mode retrace les étapes de son devenir-art à travers l’ascension…
I do
nothing I need
no one
I loose my keys
they were on the door
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Labour of Tongues is a document of poetry…
Le mot est un fil et le fil est langage.
Une traduction par Lorca Coquelicot et Kythe M. Heller du poème de Cecilia Vicuña, “Palabra…
The trailblazing debut collection of Edith Södergran, a modernist visionary and one of the most influential poets to write in Swedish. Södergran’s daring, avant-garde work outraged many of her Finland-Swedish contemporaries…
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