Essay

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.

Architect Mark Lee presents a body of work on the basis of five considerations: on history, on cadence, on autonomy, on America, and on point.

A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.

A reflection on the autonomy and eternity of art by Canadian writer Madeleine Thien, based on a mural in the Thousand Buddha Grottoes of Bezeklik, China.

The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.

Sylvia Sasse explores and analyzes subversive affirmation as a critical practice in different political systems.

An account of the relationships between biology (as education, research, institutions etc.) and capital (in such forms as research grants, industries & corporations).

A queering of psychoanalysis put together by the forerunner of Inactual Magazine.

What can resistance look like today? In search of an answer, Enis Maci draws a line from Jeanne D'Arc via Sophie Scholl to the Albanian Sworn Virgins.

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

An account of an imaginary fashion exhibition that has no clothing, but in its place, sonic responses to garments and cloth act as a series of calls to explore the concept of Fashion Thinking.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

The edition offers a new approach to what Ines Weizman names "documentary architecture," meaning that to write about the history of a building is also to map the world in which it is located.

The first French translation of Giorgio Grassi's 1967 text, La construction logique de l'architecture [The Logical Construction of Architecture] takes a strong stand in favor of an architecture that thinks for itself, against the current of experimental excesses that mark both his era and ours.

In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).

An analysis by American historian Dagmar Herzog of the emotional springs and body-related obsessions of the new extreme right.

A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".

A history of art in France from the women's perspective.

The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.

This posthumously published essay presents Hans De Wolf's sharp analysis of one of the greatest rivalries in art history, a rivalry between two centuries, embodied by two of their most prominent figures: Courbet for the 19th and Duchamp for the 20th century.

An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.

Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).

A challenging study of contemporary theater in all its political dimensions.

Pictorial abstraction in the Middle Ages: an innovative reflection that offers a powerful cross-disciplinary approach to medieval art, under a completely rethought concept of abstraction in close contact with finely analyzed images.

The relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge as entanglement of multiple temporalities.

The architecture of disaster: Eyal and Ines Weizman trace the history of the before-and-after image from 19th-century photography to contemporary satellite images.

The posthumous publication of the German philosopher: a major work on the collapse of Western philosophy and on the necessity to rethink the past to build the future.

A rigorous and mind-blowing account of the dynamics of capitalism today through an in-depth exposition of software, speculative finance, and the highest scales of arbitrage.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

Bill Evans / Scott LaFaro / Paul Motian (1959-1961): the story of one of the most original, dazzling and influential trios in jazz history, and of the recording of three legendary albums.

A2 size offset folded poster of Sylvain George's essay "What the Night Sees".

Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).

A history of the representation of blindness in art, from Brueghel to Louise Bourgeois.

An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.

Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of "planetarity" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.

A massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together.

How practices that enact the art of constructing open secrets in markets can be mobilized to unfold magic making.

A wide-ranging discursive study of the cultural geography of the Central European avant-garde between the wars.

Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in English of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.

Le cinéma sans le film explores the trace of cinema in contemporary artworks that are not films.

A manifesto against the current moralizing trend in the arts.

A serious diagnosis of the current form of capital, a profound excavation and presentation of the most important and helpful ideas that Jean Baudrillard published: from the unravelling of western philosophy, to a redefining of marxist theories of economics and capital, to a shift in critical theory that complies with quantum theory (new expanded edition). 

Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.