A conversation about science fiction and robotics, ecology and gender, Indigenous Futurisms and what it means to be human.

Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance.

The necessary new paradigms to invent in architecture and design in the context of the environmental crises.

Everything Passes Except the Past takes an artistic and discursive approach to coming to grips with a colonial past that remains present in ethnographic museums, public space, and image archives.

The relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present.

Twenty authors and artists reinvent our relationship to nature.

An overview of how creative practices are modifying the ways we think about both knowledge production and research in the cultural sector and in academia.

The book contextualizes the Creativity Exercises—an amateur art course led by neo-avant-garde artists Miklós Erdély and Dóra Maurer in Budapest from 1975 to 1977—within the postwar intellectual networks that connected artists, architects, educators, sociologists and other socially engaged professionals.

This publication critically assesses and illuminates ways in which the arts can confront food-related issues, through the contributions of artists, anthropologists, activists, agronomists, and chefs.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of an annual periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of an annual periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

A wide-ranging collection of texts on contemporary painting, by one of its most finest observer today.

This collective study examines the influence of Joseph Beuys's concept of social sculpture in the evolution of artistic practices from the 1970s to the present day.

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.”

The contemporary return to universal claims and concepts in the fields of art, architecture, and urbanism.

The art scene of Kosovo.

The contributions in this reader seek to understand how artists move through the world, and how that movement might necessitate other roles to pursue a project, a position, a politics, or a practice.

This collective publication discusses the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art, marking one of the most significant set of developments in the art field over the last decade.

An historical account of walking as an artistic practice inside Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus.

Collection of recent essays and poems in which the American poet and critic examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, architecture's relationship to language, and feminist economies of writing, reading, and art making.

The origins of the digital in architecture in 14 case studies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.

Recounting a partial history of our relation with matter, this reader explores how the crossover between cosmological narratives, the spatial revolutions of concrete poetry, and hypertextual and territorial fictions might have an impact on the recognition of human agency in a time that calls for our action on environmental policies.

The origins of the digital in architecture in 14 case studies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.

An examination of recent cases of boycotts by artists, presenting their political, ideological, and economic contexts, timelines, statements, as well as interviews.

This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man's rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time.

Exploring the relationship between the Situationist International and the museum.

This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms (essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York).

In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What's Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.

An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene.

A collection of unpublished or rare texts by architect and theoretician Frederick Kiesler written between 1927 and 1957.

An attempt to define the spirit of an age: exploring how today's myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology—through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table—Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.

An account of Lutyens' long-term Hypnotic Show at Documenta 13 in 2012.

This book is the result of four years of collaborative work that focused on topics of affect, the return of history, ecology, and art and its markets in today's power law–based economies. It attempts to shift practices of thought toward both critical realism and new materialism.

Cutting across diverse thematic interests and modes of investigation, the thirty-five essays in Realism Materialism Art (RMA) offer a snapshot of the emerging and rapidly changing set of ideas and practices proposed by contemporary realisms and materialisms, and examine their ramifications on the arts.

Rike Frank and Grant Watson's research project examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works.

This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.

The meaning of performance and performativity today.

A manifesto to reestablish a social and aesthetic dialogue between visual art, pedagogy, and psychology, philosophy, critical journalism, etc.

The possibility of concrete truth as a working hypothesis, for an art that not only represents and documents, but engages in specific political and social situations—and for an activism that searches for intelligent, creative means of self-empowerment.

This book excavates the notion of forensis (Latin for “pertaining to the forum”) to designate the role of material forensics in articulating new notions of public truth. The condition of forensis is one in which aesthetic practices, new technologies, and architectural research methodologies bear upon the legal implications of political struggle, violent conflict, and climate change.

Speculative Drawing presents fifteen books—from monographs and translations to collections of essays—that emerged from the research platform Speculative Poetics, conceived by Armen Avanessian in 2011.

A collection of essays in which Chantal Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in today's world and their relation to the development of art practices.

In his influential 1986 text, now translated into English for the first time, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space.

Theoretical reflections and insights into alternative artistic working models.

Art as the result of a thinking process (a vast survey of recent debates around art schools and their methods).

Contemporary art and the “colonial present.”

New perspectives on design and its possible critical dimension.

How ongoing transformations in social housing are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists.