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Jonathan Crary - L\'écorchement du monde - Pour en finir avec l\'ère numérique : vers un monde post-capitaliste
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.
Eyal Weizman - L\'art de la contre-enquête - Esthétiques de l\'investigation – Politiques de vérité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.
Elena Vogman - La danse des valeurs - Sergueï Eisenstein et le Capital de Marx
2024
French edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
forthcoming
Researcher Elena Vogman examines the unpublished archival material relating to the film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital by Sergei Eisenstein. The analysis of these materials reveals the clear and ambitious idea that animated the Soviet filmmaker for this aborted project: to build a visual theorization of value.
Reiner Schürmann - Lire Marx
2024
French edition
Diaphanes - Anarchies
forthcoming
Schürmann's lecture on Marx emphasizes the philosophical axis of the German theoretician's work and reads it as a transcendental materialism.
Jacqueline Burckhardt - My Commedia dell\'Arte
2024
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An extended meandering conversation between Swiss art historian, critic and curator Jacqueline Burckhardt and curator/art historian Juri Steiner, accompanied by numerous texts, documents and artist inserts.
Jill Johnston - JJ
2024
French edition
Brook
forthcoming
JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.
L’Art dans la vie - Le constructivisme et le productivisme russe dans les textes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
Eva Forest - A Strange Adventure
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Montana
forthcoming
Multivocal and anonymous, A Strange Adventure is oral-history-as-theater—the theater of memory, trauma, and torture.
Ines Weizman - Avant et après - L\'architecture du désastre
2024
French edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Eyal and Ines Weizman explore the history of the before-and-after image, from its origins in 19th-century Paris to today's satellite surveillance.
 Iliazd - PhiloSophia - Istanbul 1921
2024
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
forthcoming
The fifth volume of the bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's fictional autobiographical writings based on his one-year stay in Istanbul in 1921.
Akasegawa Genpei - Anatomie du Tomason
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The first French translation of the texts of the Japanese artist and writer Akasegawa Genpei (Katsuhiko Akasegawa, aka Otsuji Katsuhiko, 1937-2014), a figure of the Tokyo avant-garde of the 1960s, on the concept of Tomason, with a rich iconography.
Edward J. Sullivan - Modernités américaines (1910-1960)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
An audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century.
Anne Truitt - Au fil des jours - Le Journal d\'une artiste
2024
French edition
ER Publishing
The first of four diaries written by Anne Truitt (1921-2004), a major figure in 20th-century American art.
Jamie Allen - Infrastructures critiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How do we perceive and think about the infrastructures that condition the ways in which we perceive, think and experience our world? Four essays by Jamie Allen, whose experiments as artist and researcher cross media, disciplines and borders, that invite us to make visible the backstage work of the digitized world, and to think (post)critically about the very notion of critique.
Valentina Tanni - Memesthetics - The Eternal September of Art
2024
English edition
Nero
The first book to draw a comprehensive cartography of the relationship between visual arts and digital culture since the early 2000s, tracing the history of memes "from Duchamp to TikTok."
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach - Project of a Historical Architecture
2024
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The facsimile and English-language reprint of the volume published in 1721 by Austrian architect and historian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, a historical and theoretical work covering all architectural periods and styles, from Stonehenge to Chinese imperial arches, which had a considerable influence throughout Europe.
Dorothy Dean - Who Are You Dorothy Dean?
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 1989
The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Carmen Diez Salvatierra - Matinées sans police - suivi de Guerre
2024
text in French and Spanish
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Written with a sensitive ear to the present, Matinées sans police reveals a relationship with the world in which the intimate and the extimate assert themselves in all their political dimensions.
Sandro Penna - Sleepless Traveler
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.
Jonas Ekeberg - Post-Nordic - The Rise and Fall of a Nordic Art Scene 1986–2006
2023
English edition
Torpedo
The first extensive survey of Nordic art during the transition from postmodernism to what might be called "the period of contemporary art".
 Iliazd - Zaum for Strangers - Paris 1921
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The fourth volume of Rab-Rab Press' bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's talk The New Schools in Russian Poetry, given in 1921 in Paris. In this talk, Zdanevich introduced zaum to the French Dadaists. He declared that practical and poetic languages are two poles of existence, two opposite ways of life.
Robert Linhart - The Sugar and the Hunger
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
currently out of stock
The first English language translation of Robert Linhart's The Sugar and the Hunger, originally published in 1980. Includes afterword by Luiz Renato Martins, and other materials.
Zoë Lund - Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the first publication dedicated to her work.
Mieke Bal - Concepts itinérants - Comment se déplacer dans les sciences humaines
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course "beyond" cultural studies.
Saidiya Hartman - À perte de mère - Sur les routes atlantiques de l\'esclavage
2023
French edition
Brook
Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.
Pierre Henry - Diary of my sounds
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
New expanded edition of an essential text for defining the thought of composer Pierre Henry (1927-2017): a musical biography in the sense of a diary and an autobiography in forty-two sequences that accompanied him in various forms between 1977 and 2005 (audio download link included).
Steven Feld - La recherche comme composition
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two essays by Steven Feld, a leading figure in anthropology and sound studies, that challenge established acoustic perspectives and open up the exciting field of research-composition.
Claudia Mareis - Théories du design - Une introduction
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
By introducing the main design theories of the twentieth century, Claudia Mareis outlines approaches and models that postulate an expanded notion of design, in connection with the human and technical sciences, as well as with the challenges of a changing society.
Livio Vacchini - Capolavori - Chefs-d\'œuvre
2023
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in French of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.
Igor Terentiev - Tenderness Record - The Life of Ilya Zdanevich
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Igor Terentiev's biography of Ilya Zdanevich published in 1919 in Tbilisi.
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.
Alexandra Midal - The Murder Factory - Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun - Codes, races, climat, habitudes - Implications sociales de la numérisation
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
New media theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun exposes her original conception of programming and code, alerts us to the racialization bias, homophily and eugenic tendencies that govern our interactions on platforms, and analyzes the need to call upon the humanities and social sciences in the development of algorithmic models for predicting the evolutions and impacts of climate change.
Rim Battal - Pommes Girl / أحتفل بالحياة التي تحتفل بي
2023
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
The story of a meeting between a woman and a man linked by music for one night, in a nuptial dance of bodies and words doomed to failure: an ode to desire by the Franco-Moroccan poetess.
Virginie Despentes - نظرية كينغ كونغ
2023
Arabic edition
Kulte Editions
First Arabic translation of Virginie Despentes' cult book King Kong Theory.
Claude Rutault - De-finitions/methods 1973-2016
2023
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Claude Rutault's entire definitions/methods from 1973 to 2016, in English language.
Eric Schrijver - Copiez ce livre - Un manuel sur le droit d\'auteur et les communs culturels, par et pour les artistes
2023
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.
Adriano Spatola - Vers une poésie totale
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.
Daring Shifts
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
currently out of stock
A hybrid collection of five illustrated short stories of speculative fiction from five countries and four continents
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
José Vicente Anaya - Pèlerin
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The second part of José Vicente Anaya's poetic trilogy, deeply rooted in the infra-realist movement founded in Mexico City in the 1970s, combining verse and prose, is marked by a formal experimentation anchored in the poet's life and his wanderings from the north to the south of Mexico.
José Vicente Anaya - Paria
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
José Vicente Anaya closes his poetic trilogy with a rereading of Mexican political history through the memories of his own wanderings.
Angélica Freitas - Rilke Shake
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Rilke Shake—a humorous variation on the milkshake—summons part of the author's library (Mallarmé, Ezra Pond, Gertrude Stein, etc.) in poetic sketches that are in turn comical, burlesque, and absurd. At once trivial and erudite, this unbridled poetry explodes with images of parties—and the mornings after—, flashes of the street, and reminders of Brazil.
Patrícia Lavelle - Bye bye Babel
2023
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The collection of poems by the Brazilian writer, rewritten in French, in a process that includes translation and re-creation, combines with delicacy, ingenuity and great coherence a research on the relationship between language and Eros, personal reflections, extensive cultural references and philosophical questionings.
Adriano Olivetti - Écrits et discours
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
The first collection of writings and speeches in French by Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), an Italian entrepreneur and publisher who transformed his writing and calculating machine factory into a laboratory for experimenting with a new model of social, political, and cultural life: a model of "concrete utopia" based on the idea of community and centered on the individual, whose instruments of realization are architecture, urbanism, and design.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Viaggio in America - Stati Uniti e Canada 1831-32
2023
Italian edition
Humboldt Books - Atlas
Tocqueville's travel notes, enriched by a photo essay by Ramak Fazel.
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