Politics

Punk Suprematism includes the first English translation of theoretical writings on punk, art, socialism, bureaucracy, and nationalism by Slavoj Žižek, Rastko Močnik, and Zoja Skušek.

15 years of conversations between Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant and his friend Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The prospects of revolutionary feminism, from Želimir Žilnik's canonical film.

The second volume of the Wattis's annual reader, ​A Series of Open Questions.

An iconographic taxonomy—researched, conceived, and ideated by Wolfgang Scheppe, also author of the book's final essay—that traces the state and police visual control through almost 500 images from the May 1968 police archives in Paris.

An analysis of the spatial representations using new digital location and mapping technologies, in the light of the political issues that accompany their multiple interpretations.

The fifth and final part of Michel Surya's Matériologies: literature and thought to the test of the pandemic virality.

The first comparative study of artistic culture in Europe under Soviet influence following the Yalta Accords, tracing the complex relationship between art and politics and the tensions between the avant-garde and traditional practices on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

An intimate portrait of the psychoanalyst Roland Gori, of his thought and his fights against the commodification of health, education and culture.

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.

An in-depth study of the elaboration of the functional architectures-sculptures of the American artist of Iranian origin Siah Armajani (1939-2020), between utopia and pragmatism, allegorizing as much the ideals as the contradictions of the American democracy before being dedicated to figures of the anarchy.

First French translation of a seminal text of media theory, which this edition contextualizes, notably through the debate it provoked with Baudrillard.

Artistic production as a tool of political and diplomatic influence during the Cold War.

A series of visual documents and theoretical inquires around the work rs548049170_1_69869_TT, a translation of artist Emilio Vavarella's genetic code into a fabric, using the 19th century Jacquard loom.

Swiss photographer Christian Lutz documents right-wing populist people, movements and hot spots all over Europe.

A journal of critical and political poetry.

The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.

Schürmann's lecture on Marx emphasizes the philosophical axis of the German theoretician's work and reads it as a transcendental materialism.

Aesthetic practices and human rights in the global south.

The 4th issue of the transversal and transgressive magazine, between contemporary art, comics, graphic arts, philosophy and politics.

Socialist realism and the relationship between the visual culture of the 1950s and the geopolitical "climate" of the time.

David Graeber's interviews (with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman) redefine the contours of what an anarchist morality could be today.

Contributions by Milena Solomun, Ben Watson and Jair Rohm Parker Wells, Ghassan Halwani, Doruntina Kastrati, Kaisa Lassinaro, Sezgin Boynik, and Rastko Močnik. Includes as supplement the first translation of Walter Benjamin's text on Lenin, translated and annotated by Esther Leslie.

A collective and transdisciplinary reflection on the notion of distraction, thought both as the stigma of our societies and as its antidote.

Four artist's posters.

A manifesto for the right of exile: the foreigner is the future of the citizen.

The General's Stork explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare in the Middle East from a bird's eye view.

"1 Million Roses for Angela Davis" traces Davis' immense influence and legacy as activist and scholar on contemporary artists today, while simultaneously teasing out the contradictions her presence and agenda posed to the GDR's interpretation and application of Marxism.

An artistic research on the political construction of representations of socialist and capitalist modernity during the Cold War, through a history of exhibitions.

An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.

A reconstruction of the vast network of images and texts that give shape to Italian fascist totalitarianism.

All flag designs proposals rejected by the Council of Europe until 1955, published for the first time, with a text by German-French artist and writer Marie Rotkopf, who tackles the EU's neoliberal political cynicism and Germany's expansion of power with biting irony.

Charles Fourier and ecology.

An analysis of the technocritical acts and strategies by artists, hackers and activists in the (post-)digital age.

A range of artistic and theoretical proposals on the theme of "laboratories".

This book merges memoir and social critique in an original fashion. By combining personal observations with a general systemic analysis, it thereby seeks to propose a new genre of writing.

The “chronicle of a sideration” written during the lockdown between March and June 2020, accompanied by a textual contribution by Julien Coupat et alii.

An essential anthology of studies on music as it is played and lived throughout the world, from France to the United States via South Africa, which underlines Denis-Constant Martin's crucial role in the sociology of popular music. His works, which since the 1970s have questioned recorded and mediatized music by going beyond established musical categories, are striking in their contemporaneity.

Rethinking cosmopolitanism without its exploitative grip through alternative traditions and practices of the cosmopolitan from across the globe.

David Graeber's interviews (with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman) redefine the contours of what an anarchist morality could be today.

Based on the author's artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, The Nomadic Listener is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of contemporary cities, including Copenhagen, Berlin, Kolkata, Vienna, Delhi, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and New York, among others.

Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, Brandon LaBelle's The Other Citizen presents narratives of contemporary crisis and exclusionary politics—from American teenagers in the maze of neoliberal privatization to those caught between borders of nation-states—outlining the force of a planetary citizenry.

Émilie Notéris focuses her analysis on artworks created by women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in a book that is at once literary, aesthetic and political.

The expanded anastatic reprint of the Italian designer's sulphurous catalog of 1973.

Theorists, historians, and artists address the precarious futurity of the notion of the future itself.

Drawing on original documents, photographs and detainee artwork, this book offers a unique insight into the experience of immigration detention in the UK.

Heterogeneous approaches to legal criticism.

Contemporary dictatorships and tyrannies.