Politics

A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic, critical, and poetic experience of living life led by death.

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

Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.

A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.

On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.

The first monograph dedicated to the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working-class neighborhood of Hackney in London.

The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy.

Comprehensive documentation on 43 outstanding socially committed artistic projects over the past twenty years.

The Place of the Symbolic brings together Reiner Schürmann's essays on the nexus between art and politics.

A revelatory conversation that, grounded in lived experience, traces the racist structures of the discourse landscape and offers alternative ways of understanding solidarity.

Following documenta 15's cascading logic, this issue then branches out, on the one hand, towards further engagements with Palestinian art and visual culture as a way to fend off ongoing erasure and, on the other, towards new understandings of geographies of art practices and histories.

This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).

Tribute to philosopher René Schérer (1922-2023), a great Charles Fourier specialist.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.

Aboard the lifeboat Ocean Viking; Jérôme Ferrari; Quebec poetry; Florentina Holzinger; Corsican cinema; investigation in the Kodak factories...

If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? In 1981, Richard Sennett delivered six lectures about this relationship, and issued a call to action that remains relevant today.

The first English translation of Larissa Reisner (1895-1926)'s writings on the Decembrist uprising.

A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.

For their thirtieth anniversary, Ulta-red, the international sound art and popular education collective is releasing the first volume of Ulta-red: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education. 

The far right and culture in Italy; everyday dystopia in Palestine; extraterrestrials and conspiracy; interview with Yolande Zauberman; intimacy coordinators against predatory cinema; meeting with Camila Sosa Villada...

How machine learning and computer vision generate images.

Multivocal and anonymous, A Strange Adventure is oral-history-as-theater—the theater of memory, trauma, and torture.

Julien Blaine's rebellious confidences, between the political and the poetic.

A reflection on the relation between art, museum institutions and climate activism.

Art, empathy and political solidarity.

This publication examines the intersection of art and politics, through the deeply engaged work and thought of two contemporary artists.

Conversation on art, real and imaginary, in 13 tableaux between ex-Action directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan and painter Laurent Marissal.

New monograph.

Extensive survey of the politically outward-looking Conceptualism emerging from Art & Language in the UK. Especially considering its critique of the norms of Modernist art practices in contemporary art, particularly practices of art education.

The first volume in a series devoted to the archives of German artist, author and curator Marion von Osten (1963-2020), around the MoneyNations project, transversing between art, theory, and activism.

Artists in exile; Algiers, capital of politicized soccer; on the human trafficking route in Sierra Leone; the theft of Russian novels from European libraries; interviews with post-punk band Fat White Family and director Sean Price Williams; ecofeminist philosopher Émilie Hache on possible "matriarchies"; Kim Noble; Taysir Batniji; Wonwoo Kim...

Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms.

An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.

Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots.

Dreaming Alcestis is an artist's book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name.

The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.

How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.

Fascism, neo-colonialism and capitalism.

A collective publication resulting from a research project led by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel that takes as its starting point the way in which current geopolitical, economic and social changes induce a renewal and adjustment of artistic strategies, by investing, in an intersectional perspective, contextual thinking and feminist, queer and postcolonial thinking in an artistic and conceptual way.

A collective work to highlight the unique perspective of Pierre Guyotat, one of the greatest authors of the French language and a major figure in the memory of the Algerian conflict, on the war of independence and post-independence Algeria.

An in-depth historical study of the artistic and political project of the Situationist International (1952-1972).

Ireland-Palestine united against apartheid; "dark romances": the problematic new publishing business; the breakdown of French cultural diplomacy in the Sahel; infiltration into armed survivalism; reportage in the dormitory town of Kiev; Alice Rohrwacher; Carolina Bianchi; Ben Rivers ; Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Hugo Pernet...

A collective reflection on the landscape as an ever-changing social, economic, and ecological construct, addressing questions of power, identity, and natural resources (contributions by T. J. Demos, Tiago Torres-Campos, Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Hagit Keysar and Ariel Caine, Teresa Mendes Flores, Chris Malcolm, Irmgard Emmelhainz...)

How queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state.

A reader based on a research undertaking, an exhibition, workshops, and a series of performances that invite artists, activists, scholars, and people from other walks of life to imagine new forms of cultural and political resistance through diverse emancipation projects, past and present, taking as point of departure the philosophy of quilombismo as developed by Brazilian artist, author, and politician Abdias Nascimento.