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An insect theory of media to understand our media devices and our technological modernity.

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).

A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.

A fascinating journey through the long history of media before the age of mass media.

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.

em>The Prodigal Daughter, which earned Alice Ceresa the prestigious Viareggio Prize in 1967, is at once a narrative in rhythmic verse, a feminist pamphlet, a poetic parable, and a philosophical tirade.

In simple yet evocative language, Alice Ceresa reveals the workings of a timeless social reality.

Bianka Rolando's first book published in English, Inselbergs is a volume of poetry accompanied by the author's own lithographs, combining word and image to reflect her interdisciplinary practice.

The English translation of Matthieu Peck's third novel, in which he confirms his talent as a stylist.

The Photograph Looked Back at Me is a series of prose miniatures, each born from an image the author cannot turn away from: a ghostly plant printed in a book about Chernobyl; a miner's face obscured by smoke, hanging in a Kyiv gallery; a picture of Katja Petrowskaja's parents, from an old family album.

Jacques Ponzio recounts in text and images Thelonious Monk's 10-day stay in Paris in the spring of 1954.

Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.

Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.

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

An interview conducted on December 18, 1974, with photographer Peter Hujar about an ordinary day in his life, released to the public half a century after it was recorded.

A heterodox and uniquely incisive model of ideology critique, Furio Jesi's work offers us a powerful insight into some of the deeper determinants of Western political rationality and its stigmatizing, inferiorizing, and racializing dynamics.

A novel about the coming-of-age of a gaze.

The first French-language publication by American typographer, illustrator, and puppeteer William A. Dwiggins (1880–1956): a 1934 puppet play with prophetic undertones, featuring intelligent machines endowed with consciousness.

Through an analysis of the social and cultural history of the imperative of "creativity" that now shapes our lives, Andreas Reckwitz examines the paradoxical promises of aesthetic capitalism.

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

A visual history of the Folly Cove Designers (1941-1969)—one of America's longest-running block printing collectives.

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.

A labyrinthine collection of 100 short stories written by Peter Greenaway throughout his career, serving as sources of inspiration, provocations, or ideas for unmade films, paintings, or exhibitions, illustrated by the strange fairy-tale characters of Italian filmmaker and stop-motion animator Stefano Bessoni.

The first book devoted to the late writer and actress Dorothy Dean (new expanded edition).

The second volume of the sdvig series, dedicated to translingual avant-garde writing, brings together the writings of the Ukrainian modernist poet Maik Yohansen from the 1920s and 1930s, translated into English.

The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.

Inspired by a walrus-ivory Story Knife from the Arctic region, Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza creates a multi-faceted narration.

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

Poetry and Revolution brings together three previously untranslated essays by the Czechoslovak avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951), accompanied by a polemical introduction by Peter Zusi placing Teige's thinking in the context of debates on "Western" and "Eastern" Marxism.

An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.

Jonathan Crary decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.

The French translation of a seminal work considered to have sparked the "affective turn" in philosophy and cultural theory.

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 legendary artist's book finally reissued in an updated and revised version, Enseigner et apprendre, a truly collaborative work, provides a valuable introduction to Robert Filliou's work and his pioneering and innovative ideas on the educational dimension of artistic creation.

The story of Tony the Donkey! A children's book illustrated by Artur Varela (1937–2017), completed shortly before the Portuguese artist's death, adapted and published posthumously by Daisy Publishing.

The memoirs of the writer, poet, and Soviet dissident Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982) on the twenties Soviet avant-garde, never translated before.

Dunderhead is the book-length English-language debut of Tomoko Yoshida, age 92: three clinically precise stories of scarcity, pride, and resentment rooted in the afterlife of empire. Beneath the starkness of her world, there is a deep empathy for the "dunderheads" who carry it.

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

An important collection of poems by Jimmie Durham (1940–2021).

A few months before the death of Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) sat down with the composer for an in-depth conversation: his career and friendships, collaborations, new instruments, and the rare freedom he allowed the sounds they produced... A rare testament published for the first time in English and French.

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).

The story of Tony the Donkey! A children's book illustrated by Artur Varela (1937–2017), completed shortly before the Portuguese artist's death, adapted and published posthumously by Daisy Publishing.

The choreographic in cinema.

By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

The author, artist, and curator Olivier Marboeuf takes us on a journey through myths, archives, and fables, where fire symbolizes Caribbean culture, colonial oppression, and ecological disasters, and where the echo of past revolts becomes the spark for future insurrections.