Sternberg Press
On the Antipolitical
 
This series stems from a discontent with the indictment of identity politics as antithetical to "real" politics. he political, in this conception, is aligned with the need to transcend markers of identity that are said to hinder class solidarity and the potential for coalition building. Yet appeals to move beyond identity tend to leave unexamined the gender and racial schemas that undergird the notion of universalism, hence overlooking—and refracting—legacies of violence and oppression. On the Antipolitical aims to confront capitalist hegemony but does not aspire toward an abstract polity. Challenging the persistence of colonial formations in contemporary theory, the series argues that discussions of identity do not subtract or divert from political struggle, but rather add to it. The series is edited by Ana Teixeira Pinto.
 
Larne Abse Gogarty - What We Do Is Secret - Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press
On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy.
Ramon Amaro - The Black Technical Object - On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press
A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.
Denise Ferreira da Silva - Unpayable Debt
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press
An examination of the relationship between coloniality, raciality, and global capital through a black feminist poethical framework, inspired by Octavia E. Butler's sci-fi novel Kindred (first volume in the On the Antipolitical series).
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