Politics

 
 
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Le singe de Kafka & autres propos sur la colonie
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
The colony as a major philosophical concept in contemporary political thought—a basis for reflection on decolonization (expanded reprint of the book published in 2008).
The Conclusive Scene - Mao Zedong\'s Last Meeting with the Red Guards, 28 June 1968
2020
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The Conclusive Scene - Mao Zedong's Last Meeting with the Red Guards, 28 June 1968 includes the first complete English translation of the Chinese Cultural Revolution document "Conversation in a Meeting with the Responsible Persons of the Capital Red Guards."
Michael Rakowitz - I\'m good at love, I\'m good at hate, it\'s in between I freeze - Research/Practice 01
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Research/Practice
The inaugural publication of the “Research/Practice” series focuses on an artistic research by Michael Rakowitz on the aftermath of a canceled show by Leonard Cohen initially scheduled in Palestine.
Ursula Biemann -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
currently out of stock
A notebook based on Ursula Biemann's latest film, Acoustic Ocean, an expedition to the depths of the Arctic Ocean in search of interspecies communications.
These are Situationist Times! - An Inventory of Reproductions, Deformations, Modifications, Derivations, and Transformations
2020
English edition
Torpedo
An in-depth history of the landmark situationist international periodical edited by artist Jacqueline de Jong from 1962–67. This lavishly illustrated publication features many previously unseen archival material, historical texts and new commissioned contributions.
White Rabbit Dream - La Peur
2020
French edition
White Rabbit Dream
White Rabbit Prod - White Rabbit Dream
The 3rd issue of the transversal and transgressive magazine, between contemporary art, comics, graphic arts, philosophy and politics.
Oreet Ashery - How We Die Is How We Live Only More So
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Publication documenting the award-winning web series Revisiting Genesis by Oreet Ashery. This documentary fiction on mourning in the digital age explores complex issues such as gender and death, digital reincarnation, and women artists.
Poésiue
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic document found during a political rally in 2019 (against prisons), without author's name nor any indication of origin. Only mention at the bottom of the last page: copying. to be freely distributed.
Of Other Spaces - Where Does Gesture Become Event?
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Stemming from the namesake exhibition program at Cooper Gallery, Of Other Spaces draws on women artists' activism from the 1970s to the present day to build a reflection on feminist thinking as a provocative and cogent mode of creative and critical inquiry.
Being Together Precedes Being
2019
English edition
Archive Books
A textbook for the project "The Kids Want Communism,"—a clandestine and public series of events marking the century of the Bolshevik Revolution. Contributions discuss the legacies and meaning of communism today.
Ina Wudtke - The Fine Art of Living
2019
English edition
Archive Books
This monographs presents a decade of Wudtke's artistic work on gentrification in the city of Berlin.
Alexander García Düttmann - Qu\'est-ce que l\'art contemporain ?
2019
French edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Fourier au Japon
2019
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
The reception of Charles Fourier's thought in Japan.
Gustav Metzger - Writings (1953-2016)
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The complete writings of an influential figure.
What about Activism?
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This reader gathers more than twenty leading curators and thinkers who present powerful case studies, historical analyses, and theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of activism, protest, and advocacy in curatorial practice.
Warren Neidich - The Glossary of Cognitive Activism - (For a Not So Distant Future)
2019
English edition
Archive Books
A dictionary designed as a tool for analysis and resistance to the new realities of neurocapitalism. With 285 definitions stemming from the fields of political philosophy, media studies and neuroscience.
Dorota Sajewska - Necroperformance - Cultural Reconstructions of the War Body
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
Dorata Sajewska proposes an innovative perspective for looking back at the formative process of Polish modernity, delving into repressed areas of experience connected with World War I and the ensuing emancipatory movements.
Joseph Jarman - Black Case Volume I and II - Return From Exile
2019
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The republication in print form of the poems of Art Ensemble of Chicago's founding member breathes new life into a forgotten document of the Black Arts Movement.
Verena Dengler - Jackie all of Trades & Her Radical Chic Academy mit (((HC Playner)))
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the various socio-political themes addressed by the Austrian artist's work.
Isabelle Launay - Poétiques et politiques des répertoires - Les danses d\'après, I
2019
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
The first volume of a diptych dedicated to the question of the memory of works in dance.
Divided We Stand - 9th Busan Biennale 2018
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
The comprehensive catalogue of the 9th Busan Biennale, curated by Cristina Ricupero and Jörg Heiser, on the theme of divided territories caused by war, conflict, or colonization.
Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Aesthetics and politics of architecture of logistics.
Para-Platforms - On the Spatial Politics of Right-Wing Populism
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Three cases studies on social, spatial, and material reality of right-wing populism. Issues tackled include Trump and Brexit; spaces of right-wing extremism in Germany; and a racist murder by a German far-right group in 2006. Other contributions includes an introduction by anthropologist Mahmoud Keshavarz, an interview with Wolfgang Tillmans, and a comic strip by Liam Gillick.
Reiner Schürmann - Tomorrow the Manifold - Essays on Foucault, Anarchy, and the Singularization to Come
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
This collection assembles key essays of Reiner Schürmann centering on the concepts of anarchy and the singularization to come. Setting out from the question of the status of practical philosophy at the end of metaphysics, these texts track the crucial role of Schürmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991.
Attaques
2019
French edition
Attaques
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A journal of critical and political poetry.
Uncertain Patterns - Teaching and Learning Socially Engaged Art
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
HEAD (Geneva University of Art and Design)
An overview of study programs teaching socially engaged art.
Co-Creation
2019
English edition
Empire - Books
A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.
Heinz Peter Knes - Der weltrevolutionäre Prozess seit Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels bis in die Gegenwart
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book, based on Peter Voigt and Arno Fischer's project developed for the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin.
Florence Lazar - You Think The Earth Is A Dead Thing… It\'s So Much More Convenient! Dead, We Thus Trample On It…
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition by Florence Lazar at the Jeu de Paume. It is also her first monograph.
Giovanna Zapperi - Carla Lonzi : un art de la vie - Critique d\'art et féminisme en Italie (1968-1981)
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A critical examination of the relationship between aesthetics and politics through the iconic figure of Carla Lonzi (1931-1982), an innovative art critic and one of the founders of neo-feminism in Italy.
Estelle Zhong Mengual - L\'art en commun - Réinventer les formes du collectif en contexte démocratique
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An investigation into the artistic and political issues of participatory art since the 1990s.
Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art
2019
English edition
Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art
Rab-Rab Press
The fifth issue of Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art includes stories about nation traitors, fierce masses, socialist women struggles, love-forms, psychedelic counter-revolutionaries, workers unions, Brecht fiddlers, jazz surrealism, Soviet trains, and anti-fascism.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Dans l\'orbe du surréalisme – Charles Fourier redécouvert – II. Si grand avec ses faucons et ses étoiles
2018
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
(last copies available!)
Second volume of a special issue devoted to the rediscovery of Charles Fourier's oeuvre by the Surrealists. This volume focuses on André Breton's passionate interest in Fourier, through correspondence (Pierre Naville, Georges Sirot, Jean Gaulmier, Émile Lehouck) and texts by Georges Bataille and Raoul Vaneigem.
Coiled Verbal Spring - Devices of Lenin\'s Language
2018
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin's Language brings together the first English translation of the Russian Formalist and Futurist writings on Lenin's revolutionary language, one of the most interesting projects of political Formalism and avant-garde theory in the twentieth century.
Georgia Sagri - Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri and I
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
As her first comprehensive publication, this catalogue surveys the multi-facetted oeuvre of the Greek artist/social activist Georgia Sagri. Across performance, video work, and sculpture, she explores the murky relationships between the artist's body and her body of work, subjectivity and persona, original and reproduction with equal parts humor and severity.
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen - The Contemporary Condition - Hegel after Occupy
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
A Western Marxist analysis of the relationship between the historical present and political action.
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Les miroirs vagabonds ou la décolonisation des savoirs (art, littérature, philosophie)
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
A philosophy of decolonization that intends to show how, in knowledge and the arts, the past can be passed.
Guttu Ane Hjort - Writings, Conversations, Scripts
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The first survey of text works by artist Ane Hjort Guttu. Written between 2003 and 2018, the texts range from public statements, poetic short prose, film scripts and reflections on the role of the artist to essays on art for children and the link between light and wealth.
Tom Nicholson - Lines Towards Another
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This first monograph gives compelling insight into Nicholson's diverse material approach, political practice, and historical context.
Warren Neidich - The Color of Politics
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition of neon sculptures by artist Warren Neidich. These installations aim to examine the rise of cognitive capitalism in the 21st century while affirming art as a political weapon against it.
Profit over Peace in Western Sahara - How commercial interests undermine self-determination in the last colony in Africa
2018
bilingual edition (English / Arabic), German insert
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
20.00 10.00 €
This publication examines the role of natural resources in the occupation of the Western Sahara, a territory considered by the United Nations to still be awaiting decolonization. Its liberation from colonial rule has come to a standstill due to Morocco's continued military occupation of a part of the territory. The protracted conflict has dramatic consequences for the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara.
Daphné Le Sergent - Géopolitique de l\'oubli
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Daphné Le Sergent's “Geopolitics of Oblivion” exhibition focuses on the technical language. The catalogue takes the form of a photography-drawing manual built on the notion of separation.
Jef Geys - 234
2018
no text
Cneai
currently out of stock
This artist's book gathers the 67 photographs that make up the contact sheet #234 of the photographs taken by Jef Geys during the 1969 Tour de France. Year of Eddy Merckx's first victory, the same day as the man's first step on the moon.
Hämatli & Patriæ
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition project which interprets contemporary issues such as migration, nationalism, populism and identity, using the symbolism in the Flemish painting of 1570 by Simon de Myle entitled Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.
Vlad Nancă - Souvenir
2018
English edition
Punch
The first monographic publication dedicated to one of the foremost artists of his generation and a key figure in the development of Bucharest's artistic community in the early 2000s.
Valérie Da Costa - Fabio Mauri - The Past in Acts
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first study dedicated to Fabio Mauri's performative work.
Maria Stavrinaki - Contraindre à la liberté - Carl Einstein, les avant-gardes, l\'histoire
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historiographical study of German art theorist, writer and activist Carl Einstein (1885-1940), that also explores several layers of the history of the early twentieth century, and proposes a critical reflection on some epistemological tropisms of today.
Solution 275-294 - Communists Anonymous
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
Transdisciplinary collection of essays and stories providing new propositions for the concepts associated with communism in relation to a variety of contemporary issues. Contributions are drawn from the project “The Kids Want Communism”—a clandestine public series of events marking the century of the Bolshevik Revolution.
 Art+Positive - Militant Eroticism - The ART+Positive Archives
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
28.00 14.00 €
This catalogue is the first survey of the art and practice of Art+Positive, a significant affinity group of ACT UP New York during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The publication presents previously unseen archives featuring artworks, documents, protest ephemera, and meeting notes, as well as commissioned essays and unpublished writings.
Rasheed Araeen - A Retrospective
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First comprehensive monograph dedicated to minimalist pioneer and postcolonial artist Rasheed Araeen. The publication gives an overview of 60 years of career, encompassing Araeen's visual art, writing, editing, and curatorial work. It includes scholarly essays, surveys, and documentation spanning every aspects of the artist's oeuvre, from his early works to his political engagement to today's ongoing Homecoming series.
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