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The realm of finance has its own eco-logics. Hectocorns offer behemoths poison pills, whales take fledglings to the moon, disappear into dark pools, and form fraudulent daisy chains with one another. This book examines…
How to Pin Down Smoke is an expansive guide to ruangrupa and their singular and multifaceted practice. Formed in Jakarta in 2000 against a background of authoritarianism, economic crisis and youth movements, ruangrupa…
From 2015 to today, Camille Bidault-Waddington captured nearly 200 photographers at work. Shaped by her stylist’s perspective, Bidault-Waddington’s images reveal the collaborative craft, offering a thoughtful exploration…
Prieta Is Dreaming, a speculative novel-in-stories, follows the precocious Prieta from her childhood in South Texas to college and beyond as she tries to find her way in the world. Imbued with supernatural powers,…
Finally there it is ! After multiple marketing brainstorms and ethical issues forums, we ended giving in the popular demand: After 8 Books has a (mini) tote bag ! It comes in neutral with surprise shades of color prints,…
Un groupe d’artistes, d’intellectuel-les et d’anarchistes se rassemble en 1900 en Suisse italienne, à la recherche d’un mode de vie « plus sain et plus naturel » et le rebaptise Monte Verità. Au cours des premières…
Titix s’installe à Paris avec Miloux. À eux l’aventure ! Découverte du bitume, angoisse de la page blanche, petits jobs, bagarres épiques … et puis la révélation d’une carrière de peintre pour Miloux, qui fait craquer…
A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.
Growing up, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps…
The images drawn by Livia Rusz (sometime in the early 1960s) have been entirely rearranged in order to invent a new story, with a narrative and rhetorical style which are unusual for children’s literature. This is a brochure…
Et si Jeanne d’Arc, les sorcières et les hérétiques avaient en commun bien plus que leurs bourreaux ? Dans cet essai audacieux publié en 1978, Arthur Evans revisite l’histoire occidentale depuis ses marges. De l’Antiquité…
Cinéaste queer et punk anglais, Derek Jarman apprend sa séropositivité en 1984 et décide de quitter la ville pour s’installer dans une cabane de pêcheur, au pied d’une centrale nucléaire. Il se met en tête de passer les…
Just what is it that makes today’s crafts so different, so appealing??
Swiss curator Nicolas Trembley has organized many projects challenging expectations on arts and crafts: the exhibitions Sgrafo and Fat…
Announcing a new After 8 Books publication – to end the year on a beautiful note –
I’d like to narrate myself through the lens of love.
And to…
"I am insisting on the voice as carrier of knowledge, a vessel that gives form to ideas, as a marker of spaces, the voice as container and content, the voice as space of resistance, insistence, and as a space for various…
Siahkal names a place in the forests of Gilan and a threshold in revolutionary time. In 1971 a guerrilla action near Siahkal shook the order of the Shah. The action failed militarily yet seeded a myth for the People’s…
The mounds of clothing that adorn my floor and the foot of my bed sometimes grow too large, and suddenly I am sinking into the matted mess of fabrics. On days like these I can’t help but feel that clothing, not just…
J’ai beau être habillée tout en noir
rien ne pourra empêcher l’odeur de ma sueur
de les assaillir
la colère dans mes yeux
Fanny Lallart écrit des textes de vengeance, de sexe et d'amitiés…
Malory walks home after an ordinarily gruelling night out, having escaped the company of her associates. Something ripples in the darkness. The shape of a figure. So begins a chain of events with the texture of dream plasma.…
Audre Lorde ate there. So did Adrienne Rich. Since 1977, Bloodroot has been celebrated – for the food as well as the fellowship – and its many devotees continuously return to this feminist vegetarian restaurant (and bookstore!)…
Cats in advertising are a popular and effective tool to capture consumers’ attention. With their cuteness, elegance, charm, and playful lightness, they convey positive associations with a brand or product, reinforcing…
A look at foraging as more than a means of survival—it’s a quiet, everyday act of resistance. From occupied Palestine to rural Japan and urban Maastricht, foraging reveals how access to land, freedom of movement, and alternative…
Conflict does more than destroy physical spaces. It extinguishes lives, erases histories and disrupts the collective memory of entire communities. In Gaza, where genocide has wrought catastrophic loss, the destruction…
Republished for the first time since its 1979 release, in a new revised edition, Holy Smoke is an account of the frenzy and paranoia of United States politics refracted through one individual’s psyche. With her…
“PEOPLE OF THE WORLD… RELAX!”
In the creative hotbed of 1960s New York, Joe Brainard was a whirlwind. He was a maker of paintings, assemblages, collages, book covers, poetry-reading flyers, and more. But some of…
Emptying the Shelves traces how Dutch ethnographic museums – among them the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures and its predecessors – have shaped and reshaped their displays over the past century. Drawing…
With a Bird, A Reader on Avian Kinship invites readers into an expansive, cross-disciplinary conversation about how we live with and think alongside birds. In a time of climate breakdown and ecological grief,…
There was a slight, sickening noise of tearing… one of the branch-like arms was detaching itself from the surrounding grey masses… The head of the thing—a shapeless grey ball, inclined in my direction.
From…
Faisant suite à l’exposition Un paysage arrondi au MAMC+, ce livre revient sur le projet de l’artiste, qui, à partir de 2021, a enquêté telle une chercheuse sur les transformations du bâtiment du musée tout en…
« Luuvv a été écrit au contact de deux ensembles de textes : l’anthologie des textes de troubadours et trobairitz établie par Jacques Roubaud, d’une part ; les discussions avec un modèle automatisé de langage,…
Sans voyageur takes the form of a large unbound tabloid, a poetic editorial project built as a constellation between print and sound design, weaving…
Scratching beneath fashion’s glossy surface, Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion reveals the rich and varied ways in which fashion has harnessed the playful, radical, and regenerative potentials of dirt and…
On suit son héros éponyme qui passe d’une enfance difficile à une parodie de père de famille, apparemment hétérosexuel mais travesti, dans un monde dominé par les hommes. Chemin faisant, il navigue dans une série de situations…
Confession sur le désir (l’action et l’objet du), les liens de mutualité et de résistance, Sexe 2 alterne prose et versification en 27 fragments numérotés à l’adresse plus ou moins dure, plus ou moins sincère,…
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