Anthologies

 
 
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.
NO Rhetoric(s) - Versions and Subversions of Resistance in Contemporary Global Art
2023
English edition
Diaphanes
An incisive examination of the intersection of global art and political resistance.
Créativités artificielles - La littérature et l\'art à l\'heure de l\'intelligence artificielle
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The very first book devoted to the creations of artificial intelligences in literature and art, and the problems they raise.
The Listening Biennial Reader - Vol. 1:  Waves of Listening
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies
Listening as a creative and critical force, relational capacity, philosophical, political and ecological proposition, and research method.
Angles morts du numérique ubiquitaire - Un glossaire critique et amoureux
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Blind spots of the ubiquitous digital—a critical and loving glossary: 138 entries to explore the unspoken aspects of new technologies, artificial intelligence and other aspects of digital.
Pierre Alferi - Une pratique monstre
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This volume examines the protean and intermedial work of Pierre Alferi (1963-2023), in order to account for its singularity, and to situate it within contemporary poetic and artistic practices.
An Activist Neuroaesthetics Reader
2022
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
A manifesto for an activist neuroaesthetics, to make the processes of digital dominion and governmentalization—which are becoming more and more prominent in late-stage cognitive capitalism (or neural capitalism)—opaque, visible, and known (contributions by Franco Bifo Berardi, Yann Moulier Boutang, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Warren Neidich, Slavoj Žižek...).
Going Out - Walking, Listening, Soundmaking
2022
English edition
umland / Q-O2
An anthology that traces the long legacy of interdisciplinary experimentations at the intersection of walking, listening, and soundmaking (new edition).
Viktor Misiano - Curator without a System - Viktor Misiano: Selected Writing
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Curator without a System brings together, for the first time in English, a rich variety of essays by the curator Viktor Misiano written between 1988 and 2005.
Soun-Gui Kim - Encounters with Soun-Gui Kim - Writings, 1975-2021
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Korean)
various
The first collection of the Korean-French artist's writings, interviews (with Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Nam June Paik...) and essays on her work.
Art for UBI (manifesto)
2022
English edition
Bruno
currently out of stock
A manifesto for radical care and universal and unconditional basic income, as a tool for social transformation and social equality highlighting values, needs and desires opposing the present inequalities generated by neoliberalism and the ecological unsustainability of capitalism.
Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1960 -1970 (11 CD box set)
2022
Important Records
This dense 11 disc retrospective of Pauline Oliveros' early and unreleased electronic work includes her very first piece made for tape in 1959.
Artistic Ecologies - New Compasses and Tools
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Avenues for engaged pedagogies, collective learning, and artistic ecologies that can engender new institutionalities.
Ina Blom - Houses To Die In and Other Essays on Art
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Art critical essays focusing on artworks that, in various ways, convey a sense of unheroic "trouble."
Expanding Spatial Narratives
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A critical anthology on the spatial mediation of art consumption through digital technology.
Liquidity, Flows, Circulation - The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization
2022
English edition
Diaphanes - Critical Stances
The hypothesis of a genuine cultural logic of environmentalization, at the intersection of art, media and cultural studies as well as economic theory.
The Cricket - Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69
2022
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Complete facsimile of The Cricket, an important but underknown music magazine edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A. B. Spellman, and Larry Neal in 1968–69—a rare document of the Black Arts Movement.
EKES (Earthkeeping Earthshaking) - Écoféminisme(s) et art contemporain
2022
French edition
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
The hypothesis of a renewal of the world's habitability, questioning the links between ecofeminism and artistic practices, but also another relationship, more collaborative than separative, to the living world.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Formes et trajets - Tome 1 : Hétérochronies
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of texts about time and artists working with it.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Formes et trajets - Tome 2 : Topologies
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of texts about space and artists working with it.
Anthologie internationale de poésie contemporaine - 2. Brésil – Poésie intraitable
2022
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This anthology gathers some of the most emblematic authors of the Brazilian poetic modernity, in its widest amplitude and with the intractable will to reveal its incessant reinvention.
Artistes-chercheur·es, chercheur·es-artistes - Performer les savoirs
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – ArTeC
Innovative hybridizations between research, creation (theater and performance) and pedagogy.
Walking from Scores
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An anthology of text and graphic scores to be used while walking, from Fluxus to the critical works of current artists, through the tradition of experimental music and performance, gathered and presented by Elena Biserna.
The Art of Critique
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
A feminist approach to broaden and challenge traditional art historical definitions of institutional critique.
EP Vol. 3 - Post-Craft
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - EP
The new meaning of craft.
You can go anywhere - The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation at 50 (box set)
2022
English edition
various
currently out of stock
A large series of essays, written by people from around the world who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's work, revealing how the non-profit organization has carried on the Albers' legacy over the years. The heart of the book, lavishly illustrated, is devoted to the Foundation's many donations to international museums, including rarely shown works of art.
Le cinéma muet italien, à la croisée des arts
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
New perspectives for a history of Italian silent cinema.
Between the Material and the Possible - Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
From "institutional critique" to "infrastructural critique" .
Le paysage après coup
2022
French edition
Naima
A collective research on the memory of the places to the test of wars and conflicts through representations of landscapes, as they are reworked by means of contemporary art, cinema or literature.
Expanded Nature - Écologies du cinéma expérimental
2022
French edition
Light Cone
The ecologies of experimental cinema in the Anthropocene age.
Resistance Anew - Culture, Artworks & Democracy
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Bringing together previously unpublished essays by internationally renowned philosophers, cultural theorists, activists, and art historians, this volume provides a toolkit for addressing contemporary theories and practices of resistance.
Résister, encore - Œuvres d\'art, culture & démocratie
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Bringing together previously unpublished essays by internationally renowned philosophers, cultural theorists, activists, and art historians, this volume provides a toolkit for addressing contemporary theories and practices of resistance.
« Il créait des choses désagréables » - Marcel Mariën et l\'activité surréaliste
2022
French edition (texts in French and English)
Art Book Magazine
The different aspects of the work of Marcel Mariën (1920-1993)–member of the surrealist group of Brussels, poet, creator of images, publisher, theoretician and political activist, accomplice of René Magritte and Guy Debord.
Marcel Lods - Éduquer à l\'architecture moderne
2022
French edition
Athom
Transcripts of unpublished lectures and writings by the French architect-urbanist Marcel Lods (1891-1978).
Attaques
2022
French edition
Attaques
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An journal of critical and political poetry: Leslie Kaplan, Rothenberg, arts and critical positions, an anthology of contemporary Central American poetry, a catalog of visual poetry, a dossier on the Brazilian concrete poetry group Noigandres, new translations of William Blake by Jean-Jacques Viton...
Wicked Little Town
2022
English edition
Archive Books
Wicked Little Town gathers more than fifty artists and critical thinkers traversing trans-temporal imaginations of resistance, unruliness, and non-compliance across genders, abilities and national borders.
Fred Moten - Les sous-communs - Planification fugitive et étude noire
2022
French edition
Brook
A political and aesthetic critique of racial capitalism and modes of social experimentation in the form of resistance to the colonial commons.
Julius Eastman - Gay Guerrilla - L\'histoire de Julius Eastman
2022
French edition
Éditions 1989
A collection of biographical and musical essays about composer-performer Julius Eastman—a compelling portrait of Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.
The Return of DADA / Die Wiederkehr von DADA / Le Retour de DADA (4 volume box set)
2022
texts in English, French, German
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
Reevaluating the scholarly knowledge about Dada and its legacy, this publication reconstructs how Dada was (re)invented in the 1950s and the 1960s, especially by the Dada protagonists themselves, and asks to what extent Dada's impulses are still relevant regarding current aesthetic, literary and cultural analyses.
La perspective de la pomme - Histoires, politiques et pratiques du Contact Improvisation
2022
French edition
various
currently out of stock
Bringing together contributions from North America, France and Italy, texts by dancers and texts by historians, anthropologists and philosophers of dance, this book offers a contemporary look at Contact Improvisation, the dance form created by Steve Paxton (1939-2024) in 1972 and which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Yann Beauvais - Agir le cinéma - Écrits sur le cinéma expérimental (1979-2020)
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
An anthology of the theoretical and critical texts on experimental cinema and moving images written by Yann Beauvais in parallel with his films and his activities as programmer and curator.
Repenser le médium - Art contemporain et cinéma
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Medias/Theories
The redefinition of the medium through the interrelation between contemporary art and cinema.
Art Writing in Crisis
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The social and political dimensions of art and art writing in the contemporary context.
Želimir Žilnik - Feminist Takes - “Early Works” by Želimir Žilnik
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The prospects of revolutionary feminism, from Želimir Žilnik's canonical film.
Hybrid Ecologies
2021
English edition
Diaphanes
A series of interdisciplinary contributions around the political and social dimensions of ecology and its implications in the humanities and social sciences, artistic practices and design.
Le phototexte engagé - Une culture visuelle du militantisme au XXe siècle
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An original multidisciplinary study of the text-image pair in its political dimension, from the militancy of the early twentieth century to the struggles for "visibility" of minorities.
Michaël La Chance - Les inventeurs de vacarmes - Théorie et pratiques de la performance
2021
French edition
Intervention - Theory
A collection of Michaël La Chance's observations and reflections on performance art in Quebec and on the international scene.
Alan Licht - Common Tones - Selected interviews with artists and musicians 2000-2020
2021
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The collection of previously unpublished interviews and extended versions of Alan Licht's famous conversations with figures in the American art and music scene (Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Milford Graves, Christian Marclay, Phill Niblock, Suicide, Michael Snow, Tom Verlaine, Yo La Tengo...).
You Got to Get In to Get Out - The Never-ending Sound Continuum
2021
English edition
IF Publications
currently out of stock
You Got to Get In to Get Out. The Never-ending Sound Continuum is one of the elements that integrate an homonymous curatorial research project that takes place at La Casa Encendida (Madrid) based on the vision of techno as a cultural, social, historical and material entity by curators Sonia Fernández Pan and Carolina Jiménez.
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