YAGO, Dena
That Figures. Selected Writings

A new volume in After 8 Books series of collected writings!!

Gathering 13 amazing essays by artist and writer Dena Yago, co-founder of K-HOLE, That Figures retraces more than a decade of reflections on the creative industry—digging into topics such as Sporespace, Billie Eilish, LARPing, corporate cafeterias, ketamine, precarity, poetry, and the internet’s lures and failures. Yago exposes the contradictions of living amidst the sugarcoated deals of the attention economy, and further proposes a new lexicon to address the numbing and disorienting effects of late stage capitalism. Absorbing but refusing to metabolize the language of commercial culture, she opens a space where critical thinking can still happen.

That Figures also features a selection of artworks by Yago, in which the combination of conceptual legacies with pop cultural elements creates new poetical arrangements.

Edited by Antonia Carrara.
Foreword by McKenzie Wark.

12 x 18.5 cm / 4.75 x 7.25 in
216 pages; softcover; with b/w illustrations by the artist, and a full-color portfolio from the series, Cursed Virtues
ISBN: 978-2-492650-20-8

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Published by After 8 Books, 2026
Design by Marco Caroti
Artists' Writings / Politics / Media Studies / Cultural Studies / Art Criticism / Poetry