Anthologies

The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.

The first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Eduardo Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba.

On the specificity and generality, materiality and immateriality, production and reproduction of artistic labour.

A comprehensive overview of the legal framework governing artistic practice, intended for creators, authors, and artists.

The anthology black monument explores how artists and communities across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa disrupt colonial monumentality.

Forest Encounters invites you into the forest and its many meanings. It brings together voices from different disciplines, geographies, and cultures. Artists, foresters, art historians, philosophers, anthropologists, wildlife researchers, landscape architects, and writers all participate in this collective reflection on the diverse meanings, challenges, and perspectives related to the forest.

Digital Interventions investigates the potential of artistic practices that aim at either creating and safeguarding emancipatory spaces of the digital or challenging and countering the many forms of digital surveillance, exploitation and repression.

This publication brings together artists, theorists, and writers primarily from Africa and its diasporas to explore a constellation of experimental and contemporary approaches to ever-evolving discourses and practices of decolonization.

The mythologies and ecologies of water, the poetics and politics of voice through film and other arts.

The third volume in the "EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking)" series, this collective work—a forum for dialogue among artists, curators, and experts in the humanities and environmental sciences—sets out to explore "ecological vitality."

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).

Globalized popular culture as a starting point for a new way of thinking about art and visual culture.

Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.

A critical and multispecies exploration of how plants shape space, knowledge, and hierarchies across historical, ecological, and epistemic terrains. 

The first major poetry collection by Jesse Feinman, a graphic designer known for his work on numerous books and album covers, founder of the photography publishing house Pomegranate Press, and a remarkable poet.

One hundred short stories by Peter Greenaway, illustrated by artist Stefano Bessoni..

One hundred short stories by Peter Greenaway, illustrated by artist Stefano Bessoni..

A look back at the career and work of Vasıf Kortun, an exhibition curator, author, and educator.

A broad exploration of precariousness—whose contours and realities are constantly evolving—examined through the lenses of architecture, the city, and the landscape.

A renewed and expanded approach to writing the history of architecture and the profession.

A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.

A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create an other pedagogical turning point.

A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.

Edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz, this volume brings together for the first time in French some fifty texts written by Ettore Sottsass between 1945 and 2001—essays, columns, and literary narratives—that reveal a constantly evolving philosophy of design.

What is the relationship between mathematics and philosophy? How does the project of "mathematical ontology" redefine the link between multiplicities and being? M=O? brings together leading scholars exploring and questioning Alain Badiou's thesis that "mathematics is ontology" and its evolution.

A collective reflection on the tensions and shifts taking place in design, in light of contemporary and future challenges, combining forward-looking visions with concrete experiments, and bringing together theoretical approaches, manifestos, and analyses of design practices, from a critical perspective that responds to the environmental, social, cultural, technological, and political transformations of our time.

A volume about artistic processes and practices that do not pursue an explicit political or critical agenda, yet nevertheless have a unique potential for intervention.

What counts as reality when images can be generated, manipulated, and circulated with unprecedented ease? The Future of Reality asks filmmakers and scholars to respond to a contemporary reality framed and filtered by algorithms and synthetic media.

A study of the affects and effects of Russian narratives and their global dissemination.

The first French translation of a selection of twenty writings by Gui Bonsiepe, a leading figure in design.

Erik Verhagen brings together seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic, who offer their perspectives on François Morellet's work, bearing witness to the enduring vitality of his legacy.

Annotation and contextualisation of works by founding members of the Finnish leftist anti-fascist writers' group "Kiila", that has been active since 1936.

This collection of texts on design by the avant-garde Italian architectural group Superstudio (1966-1982) highlights one of the most powerful and complex moments in the period of Italian architectural neo-avant-garde, revealing a progressive and increasingly radical reflection on the meaning of design, on architecture and design as forms of thought, and finally on life itself as a project.

A diverse compendium of writing and visual art that addresses pertinent issues found in the work of artist Hiwa K.

A survey of the French contemporary art scene through an anthology of forty monographic essays.

The first reader of essays devoted to the work of the renowned artist and media pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson.

A survey of the French contemporary art scene through an anthology of forty monographic essays.

A call-to-arms for creatives to make their work widely accessible as a political and communal act.

This illustrated volume investigates the cinematic, documentary, and video output of women artists and filmmakers operating in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, situating their research at the intersection of artistic experimentation, politics, society, and technology.

Ctrl. is a book that explores new uses of photography. It examines how photography has become an autonomous medium and now helps to construct identities, control the imagination, and shape the economy and multiple realities.

This multidisciplinary anthology explores the connections, uses, and tensions between music and what European modernity has grouped under the multifaceted category of "savage."

Comprehensive and previously unpublished documentation on the unproduced magnum opus of American composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009).

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.

The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.

Leading scholars explore the connections between democracy and justice, architecture and urban design, the growth of cities, cosmopolitanism, inclusion, and free speech.

A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives (new revised edition).

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.