Politics

 
 
Ana Teixeira Pinto - Death Wall - Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical
forthcoming
How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.
Deberlinization - Refabulating the World, A Theory of Praxis
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.
Global Narratives of Russian Disinformation
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
forthcoming
A study of the affects and effects of Russian narratives and their global dissemination.
Sylvia Sasse - Subversive Affirmation
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
forthcoming
Sylvia Sasse explores and analyzes subversive affirmation as a critical practice in different political systems.
Radical Desires - French Gay Liberation and Anticolonial Critique
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Critical Stances
forthcoming
An intersectional approach to the radicality of desire.
 Meltdown Your Books (MYB) - Where Does a Body Begin? - Biology\'s function in contemporary capitalism
2025
English edition
Becoming Press
forthcoming
An account of the relationships between biology (as education, research, institutions etc.) and capital (in such forms as research grants, industries & corporations).
Enis Maci - Eiscafé Europa
2025
English edition
Hela Press
forthcoming
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.
Virginie Bobin - Unlearning with Translation - A Critical and Collective Practice
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Virginie Bobin - Désapprendre en traduisant - Une pratique critique et collective
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
forthcoming
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Bouchra Khalili - The Circle - Chronologie pour une constellation
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
forthcoming
A visual and text based investigation led by Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili during many years following the traces left by the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes, a group fighting for the rights of the Arab workers in France at the turn of the 1970s.
Dagmar Herzog - The New Fascist Body
2025
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
forthcoming
An analysis by American historian Dagmar Herzog of the emotional springs and body-related obsessions of the new extreme right.
Optically Suspicious
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
forthcoming
Edited, designed and printed by Matrijaršija, this riso-printed book is the first in the Tehnika series and is based on research into the left-wing union of typographers and printers active in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 30s.
Alexandra Kollontaï - My Heart Belongs to the Finnish Poor
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
forthcoming
The first English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's "My Heart Belongs to the Finnish Poor", originally published as "Suomen köyhälistölle kuuluu sydämeni" by the Finnish Trade Union Federation in 1911. The essay is printed in 200 copies as a risographed poster.
Chantal Montellier - Irréductible
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
forthcoming
A monograph highlighting the diversity and richness of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations.
Mouvement
2025
French edition
Mouvement
Investigation into data centers in Marseille; the birth and death of international law in Nuremberg; behind the scenes of news reporting in Syria; inside the mind of a fascist woman with Hélène Frappat; interview with Joris Lacoste...
Rossella Biscotti - The Trial
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The Trial is an extensive publication chronicling the decade-plus-long evolution of one of Rossella Biscotti's seminal works, focusing on the trials of members of the revolutionary left-wing movement Autonomia Operaia in the early 1980s, an emblematic judicial drama of Italy's Years of Lead.
Sigfried Giedion - La mécanisation au pouvoir - Une contribution à l\'histoire anonyme
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.
Ada Tosatti - L\'extrémisme littéraire et politique - Nanni Balestrini et les années 70
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
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).
Yannick Butel - Le Gai Théâtre – Pour un théâtre de la contre-addiction - Essai d\'histoire sociale et politique du phénomène théâtral contemporain
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante
A challenging study of contemporary theater in all its political dimensions.
Sub(e)merging - Experiences, Practices and Politics from below
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
From submerging as emerging: a cross-disciplinary perspective of the medial, aesthetic, and material aspects of submerging, as well as its methodological qualities as a resistant practice and figure of thought.
Jef Geys - Catalogue Raisonnable
2025
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
MER. Books
The first total survey of Jef Geys' work.
Roberto Alonso Trillo - Exocapitalism - Economies with absolutely no limits
2025
English edition
Becoming Press
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.
Siegfried Kracauer - Culte de la distraction - Miniatures urbaines et critiques de films (1925-1933)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
Mouvement
2025
French edition
Mouvement
How the Right is ruining culture; the return of magic in agriculture; art, war and video by Hito Steyerl; a counter-visit of Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport with its nocturnal inhabitants; coming out of the 20th century with Mélanie Plouviez; the solitude of scroll with writer Sheena Patel, after nature with economist Cédric Durand...
Jairus Banaji - Wanting Something Completely Different - 111 Vignettes of Left-Wing Figures, Themes, Films, and Writers
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
currently out of stock
A collection (montage) of biographies and themes written by Jairus Banaji (new edition).
Egon Erwin Kisch - Karl Marx in Karlsbad
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first complete translation of Egon Erwin Kisch's Karl Marx in Karlsbad. Originally written in 1946, this book recounts Marx's visits to the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in Czechia) in 1874, 1875 and 1876.
Florence Pazzottu - Frères numains - Discours aux classes intermédiaires
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A both poetic and political text which supports the French social movement that began on 31 March 2016.
Makis Solomos - Pour une écologie de la musique et du son - Le vivant, le mental et le social dans la musique, les arts sonores et les artivismes d\'aujourd\'hui
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.
Epistemic Imaginaries - Learning as Festivity
2025
English edition
Errant Bodies
currently out of stock
Epistemic Imaginaries brings attention to creative educational initiatives and how alternative learning situations work at reinventing community and related knowledge practices.
Hamid Barrada - Anthologie d\'entretiens - Volume I, 1977-2012
2025
French edition
Kulte Editions
Much more than a selection of interviews conducted by Moroccan journalist and intellectual Hamid Barrada, this book immortalizes a lively memory of the history of the Maghreb, the African continent and the regimes born in the wake of independence.
TAMO
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / French / Arabic / Amazigh)
miscellaneous
Kulte Editions
A multilingual, feminist and original publication edited by Kulte Éditions in Morocco, TAMO, a journal where art, history and contemporary issues intertwine, unashamedly thinks, discusses, criticizes, promotes and denounces.
Rosanna McLaughlin - Against Morality
2025
English edition
Floating Opera Press
currently out of stock
A manifesto against the current moralizing trend in the arts.
Frantz Loriot - Musique improvisée et questions politiques
2025
French edition
Bruit
Two figures of adventurous and creative music discuss the relationship between improvised music and socio-political practices, through the prism of anarchist thought.
Eyal Weizman - L\'art de la contre-enquête - Esthétiques de l\'investigation – Politiques de vérité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.
Siegfried Kracauer - Culte de la distraction - Miniatures urbaines et critiques de films (1925-1933)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
Anders Fjeld - Pratiques d\'expérimentation - Cartographier les possibles avec Jacques Rancière
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.
Matthieu Renault - Maîtres et esclaves - Archives du Laboratoire d\'analyse des Mythologiques de la modernité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
Brian Massumi - Ontopouvoir - Guerre, pouvoir, perception
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.
Tomás Maldonado - Vers une écologie critique
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A major milestone in the history of design, this pioneering work by Tomás Maldonado, published in 1970, lays the foundations for a critical and committed reflection, open to an ecological perspective, against the drifts of utopian regressions or exacerbated productivism.
Mouvement
2025
French edition
Mouvement
The great coming out of "homonationalism"; a ghostly stroll through Pristina's Grand Hotel in Kosovo; filmmaker Radu Jude's Bucharest; hunting and politics; land theft in Colombia; an archaeology of sabotage...
Alain Badiou - L\'Éclat de l\'absolu - Dialogues avec Alain Badiou
2025
French edition
Suture Press
L'Éclat de l'absolu is a crucial work for anyone interested in Alain Badiou's thought. Through interviews conducted by philosopher and editor Jana Ndiaye Berankova, readers are invited to immerse themselves in a rich and nuanced dialogue exploring the major philosophical influences—Plato, Hegel, Sartre, Althusser, Lacan and Deleuze—that have shaped Badiou's thought.
Jonathan Crary - L\'écorchement du monde - Pour en finir avec l\'ère numérique : vers un monde post-capitaliste
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.
Anders Fjeld - Pratiques d\'expérimentation - Cartographier les possibles avec Jacques Rancière
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.
Michel Guet - Ne rien faire, mais quoi ? - Suivi de Le coup est parti
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Malaise dans la décolonisation - Terres éparses et îles noires
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
An essay that intellectually deepens the historically traced furrows of colonial aberrations, crossing political science, philosophy, anthropology and psychoanalysis.
Staci Bu Shea - Solution 305 - Dying Livingly
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
currently out of stock
A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic, critical, and poetic experience of living life led by death.
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