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Fatal*e et Arthure Rimbaud constatent que le langage est épuisé. Il n’y a pas de riposte possible puisqu’il n’y a plus d’accroche. Alors, elles entrent en résistance. Fatal*e est une épopée contemporaine avec…

« Je me sens moins abimée ces derniers temps. Oh, pas saine d’esprit pour autant, certainement pas normale, ni même belle (certainement pas belle), mais puissante, secrète, sagace. Et bon sang, j’adore ça. »

Six…

Ce monde est chaotique […] C’est pour ça que nous fuyons, car nous pensons que c’est la seule façon d’être libres 

(Pirateflavor, Tumblr, 2023).

Passionnée formée à l’histoire de l’art, Valentina…

This book is the final piece of an international project initiated in Portugal, which has established an online archive for experimental underground and protest sounds – encompassing both the “real socialism” of Eastern…

All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection,…

A transdisciplinary and experimental collection of critical and artistic engagements with listening as both a practice and a way of being.

Featuring contributions from an extensive roster of international thinkers,…

Expanded edition!

Spells are poems; poetry is spelling.
Spell-poems take us into a realm where words can influence the universe.

Spells…

Continuities and ruptures between the early Soviet (c.1917) and late state socialist (c.1980s) periods are examined through detailed discussions of a wide range of women’s artistic practices, including Liubov Popova, Varvara…

Get down on your knees for BUTT no. 36. The thickest and most holy issue yet is filled cover to cover with revelations from passionate queens around the world. There’s a lot to gag over inside the alternatingly porny and…

Books in dreams were once made of scrolls and parchments. Once, books in dreams could only manifest themselves as clay. Scratches became meaningful. Books still tumble down. Most rooms are flooded; the waters are generally…

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Or, it seems, without a few thousand followers and a designer stove. Food is everywhere these days, from jello-sculpting reels and fermentation pop-ups to bike deliveries…

This book accompanies the exhibition KI$$ KI$$ at Haus der Kunst München. It features sketches, photographs, and work concepts by Shu Lea Cheang, a conversation between the artist and curator Sarah Johanna Theurer,…

The seventh volume of the series dedicated to the life and work of Ilya Zdanevich - Iliazd presents the first English translation of the “Albanian” issue of Bloodless Murder magazine, published in Petrograd…

Special expanded 5th edition! This manifesto talks to core of GenderFail collecting and archiving practices that looks to the softness as a metaphor for both the material and content of artist made publications. The GenderFail…

… nos monuments sont partout,
absolument partout, au fond de la mer
et dans les quartiers sans lumière
où gémit le Rabòday,
sur les murs défoncés de Pointe-à-Pitre… les femmes folles…

BACK IN STOCK! This title features the recovered and re-edited transcript of a 1998 conversation between artist Adrian Piper and philosopher Peter Osborne at Jerry’s restaurant in Soho, New York.

As…

A collection of essays on one of the most important living Black artists of our time, David Hammons (b. 1943). Documenting five decades of visual practice from 1982 to the present, this book features contributions from…

8 years of writing prompts, movement activities, research, and experiences from LA Warman’s iconic anti-school, Warman School. Over 1500 students have passed through the hallowed halls of a Warman School Zoom room; you…

Composé à la fois de récits personnels, de citations et de collages provenant notamment du New York Times, New York Temps suggère une discontinuité des états intérieurs, accentuée par la multiplicité des orateur.ices…

Il est possible, à partir de l’œuvre de Gramsci, de penser l’émergence du fascisme historique de manière à mieux reconnaître ses nouveaux variants et mieux le combattre aujourd’hui. Étant donnée la situation politique…

Motherhood is a theme that stands at the core of life, but has nevertheless been kept in the private sphere for a long time, haunted by clichés, stigmas and myths. Motherhood has always been seen as trivial, not as a subject…

Mindblowing. On the occasion of his exhibition, Weltraum, at the Albertinum in Dresden, Wolfgang Tillmans has created a unique artist’s book that places his four decades of artistic practice in a thoughtprovoking…

Three Swiss companies manufactured type for typewriters between the 1940s and 1990s: Caractères SA, Setag and Novatype. For over fifty years, they supplied leading office machine manufacturers in Europe and around the…

I often find myself wanting to get as far from the present as possible. Recently I’ve been obsessed with the extreme past. People of 20,000 years ago possessed creative and capable minds—the same as ours, apparently—and…

Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: a socio-economic argument against ageism, celebrating the “elderly” as economically viable. Instead, Simon(e) van Saarloos presents a radical critique…

SONDUKE (“صندوق”— Arabic for crate, vault, or safe) is an Arab Gulf based independent digital platform featuring regional and global experimental and industrial art and sound. The ‘interiority’ signaled by the name Sonduke…

Hi! I’m Francis. I spend most of my time thinking about a guy named Simon. He is a hot club promoter who put in me a few times. He used to sleep with a ton of people! But now, he’s in a monogamous relationship with…

Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon…

Bringing together analyses from different fields—law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis—Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn’t just a metaphor. It’s the operating…

A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive. And although this mostly happens unconsciously, in a society plagued by anxiety,…

The discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area—text generation, as it happens, was not invented yesterday in Silicon Valley. This anthology,…

In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation…

This is a monumental and extensive work from someone who is arguably the most well-versed scholar of Baudrillard, Deleuze & Laruelle in the German-speaking world, Achim Szepanski, the original founder of Mille Plateaux,…

Flying Freehold takes its title from the legal term for property extending into spaces it does not own, paralleling the fragmented and impermanent nature of modern life. It reflects on the paradox of claiming…

This book, by no means complete nor comprehensive, contains something like one hundred and twenty descriptions: re-readings of fifty years’ work and the materiality of production . . . These are numbered according…

On nous aura tout revendu, même notre mort. C’est l’infini dans un suicide et le suicide dans un miroir.
Haïr unit, c’est peut-être la moindre des choses.
Haïr le monde, c’est désirer la…

A Woman is a School is the first memoir and cultural anthropological book by Slow Factory founder, Céline Semaan. As a war-survivor and child refugee sharing endangered and discredited ancestral knowledge of the…

Slumber Party Massacre, directed by Amy Jones [and written by Rita Mae Brown; Pet Sematary, directed by Mary Lambert; Near Dark, directed by Kathryn Bigelow; American Psycho, directed…

Writing occupied a fundamental place in Jack Whitten’s artistic practice and in his day-to-day life, weaving the two together. Notes from the Woodshed gathers the artist’s daily logs, longer essayistic entries,…

Unsex Me Here is a prayer book tied together by the strings of a corset. Glamorous ramblers, haunted by the sense of another world drawing near, wander in and out of its inexplicable twilight. From a West Texas…

Chickens have a collective soul. Heaven is full of the skateboarders you kissed in middle school. If the algorithm is its own hell, Lauren Cook, author of the critically (and uncritically) acclaimed Sex Goblin,…

More Gamper ! <3

“Over the last few months, we have immersed ourselves in [Martino Gamper’s] archive; to discover new and rediscover familiar pieces; to discuss, and to gain a better understanding of his design…

Amy Ashwood Garvey was a committed Pan-Africanist and feminist who moved to the UK from Harlem in the 1930s. Most famous for being the first wife of Marcus Garvey, her contributions to movements for social justice, race…

Fluid and unselfconscious, Ghayath Almadhoun writes love poems in the shape of nightmares: I have brought you a severed hand is a surreal mix of absurd humour, heteroerotic lust and dead seriousness. Caught between two…

Surpopulation carcérale, banalisation de l'exception, criminalisation accrue des militants dits "extrémistes" et de tout mouvement social d'ampleur, violences policières quotidiennes, dissolution d'organisations, approche…

F(r)ictions and Danarti invite you to engage with the works of Palestinian writers and artists, and with text written on the subject of Palestine as a place, a people, a culture that is justified in its struggle for freedom.…

Longtemps on a voulu opposer deux familles du rap français : le rap conscient et le rap bling-bling, les lyricistes et les punchliners – la critique sociale ou le commercial, la poésie ou l’egotrip. Or, l’immense succès…

Se perdre sans peur emprunte sa forme aux livres d’enfant: coins arrondis pour ne pas blesser, pages cartonnées offrant plus de résistance et robustesse aux chocs, aspect glacé et tranches teintées en protection…

Surrealism was not only an international artistic movement, but also a political one. Its members denounced European colonial policy, opposed fascist regimes, fought for the Spanish Republic, were persecuted, went into…

Avant d’être un livre, The Great Prince of the Forest est une lecture performée de 30 minutes, dans laquelle Cliff Tait-Jamieson nous partage sa rencontre nocturne avec des cerfs dans les forêts du Lot. La publication…

Jusqu’à ce soir-là, je ne me doute pas qu’il y a des scorpions en France. Dans mon esprit, tous les scorpions vivent en Algérie. Je ne sais pas exactement ce qu’est l’Algérie, je n’y suis jamais allée, mais je sais,…

Marc Camille Chaimowicz was an acclaimed visual artist known for his performances, installations and curatorial flair. He was also a writer. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of writings by the artist, includes…

This is the facsimile of an undated sketchbook of drawings by Jason Rhoades – in a light slipcase. As a sculptor working at EPIC scale, Rhoades (1965–2006) used everyday materials to systematically explore life’s big questions.…

Lawrence Weiner was a crucial figure in the development of conceptual art, a movement which emerged in the mid-1960s and radically redefined the role of the artist and the fundamental relationship between the artwork and…

The new edition of Campo di Marte by Nathalie Du Pasquier is enriched with sixteen additional compositions, expanding and complementing the original selection of the first edition.

Campo di Marte…

Many typefaces created today are related to types of the past, and interest in older letterforms is stimulated by the great number of visual resources available. We are surrounded by digital fonts based in one way or another…

Prepositions enacts a distinction between what language says and what it does. A catalogue of exercises, interviews, essays and creative explorations, this workbook-compendium invites the reader to investigate…

Shulamith Firestone was 25 years old when she published The Dialectic of Sex, her classic and groundbreaking manifesto of radical feminism, in 1970. Disillusioned and burned out by the fragmented infighting within…

« Nul ne sait ce que peut un corps » écrit Spinoza dans son Éthique. C’est sur cette zone de non-savoir qu’Emma Cossée Cruz porte son regard dans Une masse grise. On y croise des machines d’imagerie médicale,…

Frappe mon intestin, s’il te plaît pour que j’oublie qui je suis pour un temps – [ma]punition pour être une femme. Pense à la façon dont mon père meurt d’un cancer et personne pour porter son nom. Imagine juste si…

Hilarious,

the way a crab’s slender
eye-stalks
stand straight up

from its scuttling
carapace—

the way vigilance

L'affaire du Corbeau est le nom d'un célèbre fait divers du début du siècle dernier, au cours duquel une jeune femme, pendant plusieurs années, adresse, dépose ou placarde, aux quatre coins de la ville, quantité de lettres,…

When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him for years but none of…

“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.”…

Moving beyond the usual genres of form in graphic design’s canonical history, Designing History proposes a model centred on bureaucratic instruments of identity, ownership, value, and permission: money, passports,…

The weather in London during the late sumer of 1972 was unusually cool and dry. Pale haze presaging autumn. The mood of the city was changing: a domain between sleeping and waking, as though the wavelength-wandering…

[Back in stock] More spit on Hegel! A collection of new translations of significant texts by two poles of Italian feminist thought—Leopoldina Fortunati and Carla Lonzi—to examine the “unexpected subject” of women in society…

« Jusqu’à ce que cela finisse par apparaître comme une chose aussi dégradante et redoutée que la vieillesse ou que la mort, d’appartenir au monde des riches. »

Nicole a 16 ans et mauvaise réputation. Celle…

Started in 1989 by designer and writer Robert Ford, THING magazine was the voice of the Queer Black music and art scene in the early 1990s. Ford and his editors were part of the burgeoning House music scene, which…

WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS BOOK:
* tentacle sex
* Kathy Acker
* the violent deaths of male genius artists, philosophers and theorists
* zombies
* sirens
* biohacking
* rampant plagiarism

This book is about damage and violence, about the ramifications of channeling intensity at all costs. It is a text that is utterly compelling, that you tumble into and cannot escape from. I fucking loved it.
—Dodie…

Linder first emerged in the late 1970s as a prominent figure within the dynamic landscapes of punk and post-punk music; her photomontage on the cover of Buzzcocks’ single Orgasm Addict in 1977 became…

After a decade out of print, this rare tarot deck, renowned for its unique vision and prophetic themes, returns in a highly anticipated new edition. The HEXEN 2.0 Tarot transports us to a hypnotic, mesmerising…

An unflinching tour of 200 years of enemy feminisms, from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion and TERF feminists. With verve and eloquence,…

This book is dedicated to my practice of exhibition making. I often think of an exhibition as a body, made up of all the parts that go into the different aspects of exhibiting. Exhibitionism does not give…

B A C K I N S T O C K A response to modernity’s most rancorous cynics and its most reckless tehno-fetishists. To navigate humanity’s pivotal century, Buterin proposes d/acc, a nuanced approach to technological…

In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines, and Catherine Lord mounted The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, a category-breaking exhibition of Black artists from different…

Pour le 1er Mai 1972, des femmes du Mouvement de libération des femmes de Genève rédigent un discours qui s’intitule « Femmes prenons la parole ». Quatre ans plus tars, à Genève, Rome, Zurich, des femmes produisent et…

La publication Dance First Think Later – Le corps pensant entre danse et arts visuels fait suite à l’exposition-festiva du même titre, présentée à Genève en été 2020, en la documentant par une riche iconographie,…

Nikki Tempest fait repousser ses tentacules coupés, comme le font les poulpes. À la fin d’un amour tragique en 2019, elle commence un parcours de rétablissement long et douloureux, qu’elle fait pour elle aussi bien que…

Described by those who knew him best as a Buddha, a Merlin, and “a cross between Brer Rabbit and St. Francis of Assisi,” the artist Beauford Delaney was anything but ordinary. James Baldwin, his closest friend, wrote that…

ferme les yeux comme un tunnel voulu/
me dis que ca commence comme ca -
la douceur     de la couleur    dans l oeil fermé
rien n a d’ importance
a part les ondes é les voix

Who is the Oriental Cyborg? asks Aditi Kini in this collection of notes, jokes, and queries into the provenance of a creature designed for labor, 3-D printed in the technoscientific post-colonies, modeled on old automata.…

The specimen for Signs, a new modern and multipurpose typeface designed by Maximage between 2018 and 2021. It was inspired principally by mid-20th-century typefaces designed for signage and used in the architecture industry.…

Une introduction à la pratique unique de la peinture et du dessin que l’artiste colombienne Emma Reyes a développée du milieu des années 1940 au début des années 2000 en Argentine, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Italie,…

Gathering Suzon, a new collection of writings by Raimundas Malašauskas, and a reprint of the sold-out book Paper Exhibitions from 2012, this book offers a window onto the legendary Lithuanian curator’s…

mon congélateur était vide mon estomac également mon cerveau passait la limite névrotique de l'obsession il était 16h48 l'heure du goûter allait bientôt être dépassée il me fallait de la glace

Is art obliged to engage with politics? If so, how? By taking sides in political struggle; by singing the song of the barricade, the new nation, the bombed city? Or by giving form to the deeper patterns of experience –…

Children’s books tell more than just stories. They stimulate the imagination, convey feelings and help young readers to explore the world. Many appeal to both children and adults alike through their idiosyncratic narratives,…

David King Publications 1977–2019 is the first published survey of David King’s book projects and graphic design work. David King (1948–2019) was a British born artist, graphic designer, and musician best known…

Writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000,…

What do we start with when telling a story — What tensions activate it — What does it promise — What do we want from it — How do we deliver it — Must it have an end — What about a story which never began — Stories we wish…

Jack Smith (1932-1989), cinéaste et artiste-performer multi-facettes de l’underground new-yorkais, vouait une admiration sans pareil à l’actrice Maria Montez, qui connut son heure de gloire à Hollywood dans des films d’aventures…

A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than a post-walk pint; a night hike on the Fens takes a terrifying turn…

Mike Kelley is best known as one of the most influential visual artists of his generation. But he was also an insightful theorist who wrote profusely about his work as well as on aesthetics in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s,…

No one can get out of their skin. This popular saying expresses the fact that each person has a skin. Each skin is therefore unique. It is a non-transferable document. Acting as a record, it details aspects of an individual…

From microbes meeting to speculative mindmaps and from cyclical calendars to mutually beneficial exchange-systems, this deck of 42 illustrated cards will help you get a deeper understanding of the world of fungi – recognising…

Compiling works from nearly five decades, Headwaters (and Other Short Fictions) provides the first comprehensive overview of the narrative and experimental writing of Lucy R. Lippard. While she is best known for…

To listen, then, is to fail at understanding in the traditional sense. It is to tremble and await, to dream, to explore and to remain open to the dissonance that arises in the encounter with otherness. Through failure,…