Politics

 
 
Ivan Messac -
2009
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
20.30 10.00 €
Catalogue gathering the works of Ivan Messac: bas-relief sculptures; printed textiles, and series of paintings dedicated to Adam and Eve or Maïakovski. A collection of works inspired by Pop iconography, in which we also meet Pessoa, Picabia, Hendrix, Jimmy Page…
Semiotext(e) - The German Issue
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.
Diango Hernández - Losing You Tonight (2 books)
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Two volumes artist's book.
Charles Fourier - Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2009
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
For the 20 years of Cahiers Charles Fourier: new issues, vast territories, meeting with readers of Fourier (architects, mediums, and anarchists); critical edition of Roland Barthes' researches on Fourier, actuality of Fourierism.
Cyrille Martinez - Bibliographies - 5e République – Premiers ministres et Présidents
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A bibliography of the Prime ministers and Presidents of the French Fifth Republic.
Sylvain Courtoux - Nihil, Inc.
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A gamebook in which the reader evolves in a burroughsian world threatened by a crime and terrorist corporation.
Yves Buraud - Agonie-sous-bois
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
17.30 8.50 €
A lexicon to look back at the 2005 French riots.
Charles Pennequin - Pas de tombeau pour Mesrine
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
While looking for French criminal Jacques Mesrine's grave, Charles Pennequin engages in a poetic and politic reflection against French society.
East Coast Europe
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
“East Coast Europe,” which took place during Spring 2008, is a project about the perceptions of contemporary European identity and its relation to spatial practices and international politics.
The Question of the Day
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
With its 100 questions and answers from major practitioners of the art world and beyond, this book helps to examine the various parameters for a new institutional model (contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Esche, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tom Holert, Sarah Morris, Heike Munder, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Beatrix Ruf...).
Thinking Worlds - The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.
Under Pressure - Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
Under Pressure (edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw) gathers together the contributions to a series of conferences held at the Institut für Kunstkritik from 2006-07.
William Kentridge - Everyone / Their Own / Projector - Minutes of a Slow Hour (Deluxe Edition)
2008
no text
Captures - Deluxe editions
Limited edition of the artist's book by William Kentridge (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages), with an original lithograph.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Victor Considerant
2008
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Special issue devoted to Victor Considerant (1808-2008).
The Violence of Participation
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Based on the curation of a space at the 2007 Lyon Biennial, architect and writer Markus Miessen has drawn together a group of people to lead conversations on the theme of Europe today.
Franck Leibovici - Portraits chinois
2007
French edition (texts in English and French)
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic document gathering fragments of texts found on the websites of political groups and international news agencies.
Neil McWilliam - Rêves de bonheur - L\'art social et la gauche française (1830-1850)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.
Slavoj Žižek - Ernteschach dem Dämon
2007
German edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Two discussions about Karl Marx by the famous slovenian philosopher, illustrated by the German artist.
Patrick Tacussel - L\'imaginaire radical - Les mondes possibles et l\'esprit utopique selon Charles Fourier
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A new essay on Charles Fourier's social utopia.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2007
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
The Fourierist Studies Association Review.
 Continuous Project - Continuous Project #08 - The Final Issue
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cneai
Produced as part of a Continuous Project residence, the collective's final publication brings together contributions from artists, philosophers and art critics around the relationship between art and politics.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2006
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
The Fourierist Studies Association Review.
The Populism Reader
2005
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The Populism Reader accompanies Populism, an exhibition project in four European cities exploring the relationships between contemporary art and current populist cultural and political trends.
Isidore Isou - Les Lettristes sont irrécupérables jusqu\'à la société de l\'éternité concrète, paradisiaque - Limited edition
2005
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
New edition of the Letterist manifesto, with an original artwork of inter-participation, consisting of a photograph torn by the artist and inserted in an envelope.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Carnets (1847-1851)
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.
Emile Pouget - Le sabotage
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A 19th century political activism classic.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2005
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Giovanni Carmine - PSYOP - Post 9/11 Leaflets
2005
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A collection of over 120 propaganda leaflets that have been dropped by the US Army on Afghanistan and Iraq.
Fundamentalisms of the New Order
2004
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
24.00 10.00 €
Conceived as a textbook with images rather than an exhibition catalogue, the book reflects on the diversity of fundamentalisms, a phenomenon that is not confined to particular cultures or modes of thought; its intention is to explore the concept in its many forms and multiple origins.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Du principe de l\'art et de sa destination sociale
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les confessions d\'un révolutionnaire
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les majorats littéraires (« La propriété intellectuelle c\'est le vol ! ») - (et un choix de Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux de contributions d\'époque sur le droit d\'auteur)
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..
Charles Fourier - Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire ou invention du procédé d\'industrie attrayante et naturelle distribuée par séries passionnées
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 1
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 2
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Charles Fourier - Hiérarchie du cocuage
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Hiérarchie du cocuage proposes a system of classification, worthy of Linné for botany, in which he organizes the indomitable differences of beings and their diverse characters.
Carl Einstein - Bébuquin ou les dilettantes du miracle
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The anti-romanesque, a-metaphysical and theoretical Einstein's dadaist autobiography.
Michel Gaillot - Multiple Meaning - Techno, An Artistic and Political Laboratory of the Present
1998
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).
Michel Gaillot - Sens multiple - La techno, un laboratoire artistique et politique du présent
1998
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).
Simone Debout - L\'utopie de Charles Fourier
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essay to demonstrate Fourier's fundamental role in the emancipation of women and the transformation of society, "for the sake of imagination, of permanent interaction between sensitivity and reason."
Michelangelo Pistoletto -
1987
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Magasin
16.00 9.00 €
Catalogue dedicated to the exhibition held by the pionneer of Arte Povera at Le Magasin in 1986 in France. With a text by Franz Kaiser.
What happens between the knots? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 3)
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - A Series of Open Questions
sold out
The third volume of the Wattis Institute's annual reader is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialization, regeneration, and environmental responsibility.
La Déconniatrie - Art, exil et psychiatrie autour de François Tosquelles
2021
French edition
various
sold out
The catalog of the international exhibition initiated at Les Abattoirs reveals a little-known story that was a milestone in 20th century psychiatry and its new links with art brut and modern art, taking as its starting point the career of the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles (1912-1994).
Contre-vents - Colères, espoirs, écologies et politiques dans l\'Ouest de la France
2021
French edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
sold out
A documentary and speculative publication on a genealogy of political, social, ecological and identity-based struggles in the Brittany region and the West of France, from the 1960s to the Zone to Defend of today, based on numerous documents and films made by filmmakers and collectives.
Beatrice Gibson - Deux Soeurs
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
From Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich to Basma Alsharif and Pauline Oliveros, Deux Soeurs brings together a chorus of voices that explore representations of parenthood, friendship, and disobedience.
The Railway - An Adventure in Construction
2020
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
sold out
The reprint of an unjustly forgotten book edited by renowned historian E. P. Thompson, detailing the experience of socialist British youth volunteers working on constructing the railway from Šamac to Sarajevo in Yugoslavia in 1947.
Oliver Marchart - Conflictual Aesthetics - Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Oliver Marchart traces trajectories of artistic activism in theater, dance, performance, and public art, and investigates the political potential of urbanism, curating, and “biennials of resistance.”
Jacques Rancière - Marx in the Woods
2019
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
sold out
The first English translation of Jacques Rancière's early philosophical text "The Dialectic of Reason and Private Interest", originally published in 1963. Written under the influence of Louis Althusser, the text is discussing the forms of law in Karl Marx's writings on the "debates on the law on thefts of wood".
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