Anthologies

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

An anthology.

How the organization of time structures the creative process and more broadly our relationship to the world.

The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. Situated at the very onset of serious study of her papers, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive (new softcover edition).

Michel Henritzi's collection of interviews provides a rich portrait of the experimental music scene in Japan.

The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. Situated at the very onset of serious study of her papers, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive (hardcover edition).

Thulani Davis' collection of poetry about music.

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.

This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies.

A curated collection of essays by art critics, philosophers, curators, designers, researchers and conservators, whose considerations address the transformations in the contemporary landscape of fruition and production of art.

This anthology aspires to map the heterogenous landscape of Greek Experimental Electronic Music in all its contextual, sociopolitical, geographical and aesthetic disparity. With a single exception, it zeroes in on post-80s music. It comprises works of very different kinds by composers of all sorts of backgrounds that, still, can be thought of, as both “Greeks” and “Experimentalists”.

This anthology aspires to map the heterogenous landscape of Greek Experimental Electronic Music in all its contextual, sociopolitical, geographical and aesthetic disparity. With a single exception, it zeroes in on post-80s music. It comprises works of very different kinds by composers of all sorts of backgrounds that, still, can be thought of, as both “Greeks” and “Experimentalists”.

A landscape of Japanese playgrounds, at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, design, pedagogy and contemporary art.

A major anthology of historic and contemporary writings by over 200 contributors, providing a rigorous and expansive survey of the photographic medium from its inception to our current moment. Edited by Walead Beshty, this exceptional publication includes texts and artworks by Giorgio Agamben, Roland Barthes, Georges Didi-Huberman, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Martha Rosler, Stephen Shore, Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ericka Beckman, Walter Benjamin, Walker Evans, László Moholy-Nagy, Marshall McLuhan, Alan Turing, Dan Graham, Morgan Fisher, Kelley Walker…

An anthology of texts by writers, artists, choreographers, poets and performers who think about the relationships between body, writing and textuality.

Originally resealed in 1975, Poesia Sonora is one of the first international compilation of sound poetry. Edited by Maurizio Nannucci, the anthology gathers pieces by some of the most important pioneers of the Sound Poetry movement: Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, Franz Mon, Arthur Petronio, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Brion Gysin, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, and Paul De Vree.

A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals compiled by the anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous show at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. It investigates notions of script and staging in exhibition display. It features reknowned contributors such as Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Irena Haiduk, John Miller, Cally Spooner, Lawrence Weiner et Christopher Williams.

Since 2009, need and care and desire and admiration have been cross-examined, called as witness, put on parole, and made the subject of caring inquiry by e-flux journal authors. These writings have now been collected to form this comprehensive volume.

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.

A musical anthology gathering a collection of recordings featuring traditional instruments from Asia and Oceania—from New Zealand to the Philippines, from India to Burma.

An anthology of original recordings from Java, Sumatra, and Bali: a collection of ecstatic and hypnotic sounds, featuring a large panel of musical influences and traditional instruments that represent Indonesia's large heritage of profound cultural differences.

A two-record album of 21 original sound works by artists who exhibited at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York—including Eleanor Antin, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Terry Fox, William Burroughs…

At the heart of this collection of short writings are three provocative texts extracted from important artworks by Rosen, offered here as genre-defying literature at the intersection between reality and fiction, speculative narrative and historical-political critique, humor and eroticism.

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.

A collection of texts from a series of screenings, lectures, exhibitions and meetings on Palestine organized by the Mucem, Marseille, in 2017.

The third volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1952-2004), for the first time on vinyl (3 discs with a poster booklet).

An anthology surveying the relationship between artistic practices and documents.

Aesthetic Politics in Fashion outlines critical studies in the present cross-sections of fashion, art, politics, and global capitalism.

Performing the Sentence brings into dialogue the ways that “performative thinking” has developed in different national and institutional contexts, within different disciplines in the arts, and the conditions under which it has developed in experimental art schools.

A collection of texts by Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, two visionary anarchist women at the turn of the twentieth century.

An anthology on new musical forms in the 20th century.

Avant-garde in Italy between 1968 and 1976.

This volume brings together multidisciplinary essays dedicated to the question of how dance, both in its historical and in its contemporary manifestations, is intricately linked to conceptualisations of the political.

Collective work among designers.

The work of Raymond Roussel as a point of departure for an oblique and transversal reading of 20th century art.

The seventh and last volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1930-2012), including unreleased material and rarities (Henry Jacobs, Tziga Vertov, Luciano Berio, Bülent Arel, Don Preston, Helmut Schäfer, E-L Scott de Martinville, John Oswald, Justin K. Broadrick, Storm Bugs, Henry Cow, Osso Exotico, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Cabaret Voltaire, Mika Vainio, New GX Jupitter-Larsen...), and a 84 pages booklet of critical and biographic notes.

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

An anthology of writings by curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas.

An anthology on socially engaged art.

Minimalism and the return of human figure in art, in the light of Franco Berardi's theory of semiocapitalism.

A subjective selection by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler of annotated texts by various authors (Edmund Burke, Frantz Fanon, Louise Michel, Donna Haraway, Oscar Tuazon...) about revolution.

A collection of texts, most unpublished in French.

A collection of mostly unpublished essays, notes and letters which shed a new light on Warburg's last studies.

A selection of recent writings by the art critic, galvanizing central themes Verwoert has been developing in pursuit of a language to describe art's transformative potential in conceptual, performative, and emotional terms.

A collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.

Dada, Fluxus, futurism, spatialism, lettrism, concrete poetry, cut-up… a 560-page anthology of typographical explosions and poetic experiments by Al Dante.

Swiss lines (available in English edition).