The people and things we want feel very far away. Everything else feels far too near. Daily life is incorrectly calibrated. Lockdown kept us painfully apart. The virtual keeps us...
In a series of humorous, wry and deceptively wise reflections, Babak Ganjei presents us with a radical new take on the artists’ manifesto. Examining motivation, inspiration and influence, these deft...
Like a snake eating its tail, artificial intelligence exists in a circular relationship with its human creators. Atlas of Anomalous AI is a compelling and surprising map of our complex...
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a...
A collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire. Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics...
This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz...
It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead...
Christodoulos Makris’ second full collection, blends painstaking poetic craft with the accidental hazards of found text and overheard sample. As challenging as it is accessible, these poems comment wittily yet...
Off-the-grid from commercial galleries – selling visuals – and canonical institutions – there to support the often static national or regional identities– artists instigate grassroots cultural safe havens in order...
Rights of Way, the body as witness in public space takes our bodily movements as a departure point to cross into the terrains of art, culture, architecture, sociology, literature, and...
A guidebook slash notebook of things designers should think about in order for them to know. Design thinking has created divisions in the discipline: either designers are too theory driven...
Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies is written for those who had to leave—collected remembrances of a childhood in Gaza by a woman far from Palestine’s sun and sea. Overindulgent, chaotic and...
This is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imagine.In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates...
The fight for prison abolition is a struggle for collective liberation: a transformative vision of a safer world, in which communities live free from exploitation on a thriving planet. Drawing...
The fovea centralis is a small depression in the retina that produces our sharpest vision. In this keenly perceptive chapbook, Sarah Lasoye ruminates on moments from the playground to the...
In a world where millions of images are shot at every moment of every day and where fast-paced environments exhaust and stifle creativity, The Mindful Photographer proposes an antidote: slowing down. Through...
In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand...
Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked...
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from...
Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on...
The incendiary French feminist work that defined ecofeminism—now available for the first time in English. Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Françoise d’Eaubonne surveyed women’s status around the...
Home, the latest collection from writer Emily Critchley, is part experimental confession, part elegiac plea. It is an exploration of the damage done by, in and to many different manifestations...
microbursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based...
Deltas, Leonie Rushforth’s first book, reveals a poetics on high alert, where the ‘tireless human sonar’ scans a compromised world for calamity and grace. In her vision of precarity and...
Art and the Rural Imagination features writing by key academics and artists and explores how contemporary art can help to reimagine the rural as a site of contemporary thought and...
Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is...
Nothing less than a history of Ireland sculpted in semi-solid emulsion, ‘Butter Intervention’ is sceptical about narratives and their revisions alike, as refined and as salty as the creamery product...
Morsel May Sleep takes its starting point in Stéphane Mallarmé’s "Thèmes anglais pour toutes les grammaires", a textbook of translation exercises that he devised during his time as a secondary school English...
“… every poem is a queering of language; every poetry critic is a critic of the queer; every reader of poetry is engaged in a queer act; every performance of...
Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact...
”Art can contribute to changing the world. It can bring new forms of subjectivity. We need to bring people to see things differently. Political subjectivities are not just an expression...
Confronting the work of widely celebrated photographers Annie Leibovitz, Gregory Crewdson and Andreas Gursky, Photography’s Neoliberal Realism examines how these artists produce capitalism’s equivalent of the Soviet Union’s socialist realism by giving...
Following the highly influential Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, this collection of essays, interviews and reflections gives new depth to Mark Sealy’s work challenging the legacies of colonial...
In modernity, the museum was the institution that made art accessible to the broader public. An artwork was collected if it was considered beautiful, passionate, engaged, or critical—and primarily if...
Fires burn around the world. Systemic discrimination persists, precarity is increasing, and the modern democratic project faces challenges from all sides. Art writing helps us to understand art which in...
Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and...
This risograph book gathers all the questions that appear in the following books by Angela Davis: Angela Davis: An Autobiography, (1974); Women, Race and Class (1981); Women, Culture & Politics,...
Mother, We All Have Been Lonely and Lovely Places serves as a trajectory of personal history, narrating the various stages of female dependency in a patriarchal landscape. As the book...
Written as an essay, An Attempt at a «Compositionist Manifesto» responds to the need of treating the manifesto as a genre of its own. Using The Communist Manifesto as a...
During the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union’s first five-year plan, the city of Magnitogorsk was built on a sparsely inhabited site in the Western Siberian steppe marked by a...
SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this...
When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the...
Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence—they reflect day-to-day implementation of...
Girl on Girl looks at how women are using photography, the internet and the female gaze to explore self-image and female identity in contemporary art. A new generation of women...
First published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution documents the efforts of a group of women artists, filmmakers, writers, critics, and cultural workers organised around advancing...
This business book is aimed at early career artists and helps to equip them with the practical tools needed to approach their careers, shining light upon some things that are...
A pamphlet of ideas for a new art world, written by The White Pube a collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. The art world is a bit broken....
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are...
Repackaged for 2022 with an additional essay and new design elements! In Strangers, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be...
Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realising their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance...
This publication seeks to be a manifesto on and about photography. Henie Onstad Kunstsenter has been groundbreaking for almost 50 years in presenting new and experimental art, and is a...
Wolfgang Tillmans: A Reader is a panoramic collection of interviews and writings from an artist for whom language has always been a significant means of creative expression. Arranged chronologically, the...
Come Together tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new ideas and practices...
Though the interpretations of the interplay between sexism and capitalism, between the personal and the political, vary across this spectacularly wide-ranging collection, each essay shares two fundamental premises. First, that...
Diane di Prima began writing her ‘Letters’ in 1968, conjuring a potent blend of utopian visions, ecological urgency and spiritual insight. By turns a manifesto for breaking free, a manual...
First published in France in 2013, My Mother Laughs is the final book written by the legendary and beloved Belgian artist and director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) before her death. A moving and...
With a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and an introduction by Sara Ahmed Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Born in New York, she had her...
As our everyday lives become increasingly entangled with data technologies, the book addresses the utopian fantasy that surrounds the Cloud, as transcending physical presence or resourcing. By bringing the physical...
Exploring castles, museums and manor houses, megaliths, moors, mountains and lakes, this lavishly illustrated travel guide covers the rich history of magic and the occult in Britain and Northern Ireland...
While artistic concerns involving photobook design and production are commonly discussed in critical terms, marketing and economics issues are less so. A possible explanation is that photobook publishers are inclined...
An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual. “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” Females is Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and...
A pocket colour manifesto for a new futuristic feminism. Injustice should not simply be accepted as “the way things are.” This is the starting point for The Xenofeminist Manifesto, a...
A founding text of transnational feminism. For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements...
The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain, by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe, is a powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in Britain....
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s...
Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analysing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends...
Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine...
Modern Nature is a meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in...
How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that...
The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are: Geamhar – a field of corn-grass Tuar – a field for cattle at night Réidhleán – a field for...
Photography has always been a social medium shared with others. But why do we communicate with each other using images? And how do the virtual essences that are photographs change...
Photobooks & presents and interrogates key themes of the contemporary photobook — from the medium’s post-digital and post-photographic situation, to the purposes of publishing, issues of accessibility and the act...
With a Foreword by Dermot Bannon and an introductory essay by the architect Jonathan Sergison, The Dublin Architecture Guide is a companion guide to the modern architecture of Dublin. With...
From the workplace to our personal relationships, anxieties about being replaced have come to dominate the late-capitalist psyche. Tech and self-help industries have exploited these fears, selling gadgets and ideologies...
After the release of Sympathy, her debut novel which explores surveillance and identity in the internet age, Olivia Sudjic found herself under the microscope. Trapped in an anxious spiral of...
In the wake of #MeToo, we have begun to talk more openly about the widespread harm inflicted by men on women. But little has been said about the fact that...
Attention pays. In today‘s online economy it has become a commodity to be bought and sold. Bombarding us with free smartphone apps and news websites, developers and advertisers have turned...
In an era where identity politics is being weaponised against the very people it has sought to make visible, how can we reclaim complexity? In 1937 the Nazis staged an...
Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic selection, the What They Saw anthology interprets historical photobooks by women in the broadest sense possible: classic bound books, portfolios, personal albums, unpublished books,...
We think art museums have been here forever. And yet they change all the time, notably thanks to the individuals who lead them. For this impressive inquiry, Donatien Grau travelled...
For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their...
This feminist retelling of the history of photography puts women in the picture—and, more importantly, behind the camera! In ten thematic, chronological sections, Tate Modern curator Emma Lewis explores the...
The invention and continuance of the “white race” is not just a political, social and legal phenomenon – it is also visual. From the advent of early colonial photography in...
To Be Determined: Photography and the Future is a book with a radical proposal: the photograph is as much an object of the future as it is of the past. Exploring...
There is a growing interest in the notion of dramaturgy, which is often discussed either as the work of the dramaturge, or as the compositional, cohesive, or sense-making aspects of...
After half a century of neoliberalism, a new radical, practice-based ideology is making its way from the margins: commonism, with an o in the middle. It is based on the...
In The Aesthetics of Ambiguity: Understanding and Addressing Monoculture Pascal Gielen and Nav Haq argue that multiculturalism is paradoxically based on monocultural thinking. The publication explores this paradox by exploring...
In The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration artists, theorists, and professionals working the art field reflect on the role of the arts in a...
Imaginative Bodies contains a series of in-depth conversations with dancers and choreographers, composers, visual artists, hip hop artists, dramaturges, a lighting designer, and a puppeteer. The overall theme is defined...
Civil society around the world increasingly deals with global questions and starts to assume transnational forms of organization. The arts can play a key role in addressing public and political...
Capitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding and advertisements; artefacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design...
The Sun isn't Out Long Enough is an anthology about queer experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Edited by Tatevik Sargsyan, with a foreword by Mary...
Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the “family” The surrogacy industry is estimated to be worth over $1 billion a year,...
In this collection of original essays, the writers engage with the work of the artists who took part in Art School. Each contribution provides a lens through which each writer...
Dark Mirrors assembles sixteen essays by photographer and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa focusing on contemporary fine art photographic and video practices that are principally, though not exclusively, rooted in the United States,...
Hyperlove burns with frustration and fervour as Naomi Morris explores heteronormative ideals, romantic happily-ever-afters and the historical oppression of women and their right to agency and expression. Yet Hyperlove isn’t...
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to...
The field of tension between fact and fiction has been researched and questioned for much longer within the field of documentary art. When Fact Is Fiction collects various contributions by...
The publication What we could have become explores the radical potentials of care and speculative fiction in the context of queer feminist collective filmmaking. Departing from the experimental short film The...
"Discover this new, completely unbridled opus, our 2021 vision of a liberated, dynamic and vibrant world of cooking, where ultra-creative chefs, legendary winemakers and 2.0 fishmongers live side by side!"...
How does the complex structure of the image today connect to perception, what does this visual culture offer and what is left to the perceiver? As we find ourselves in...
An influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences. “O, my friends, there is no friend.” The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and...
Responding to the US’s perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of...
A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory. In Sexuality in the Field of Vision, Jacqueline Rose argues for the importance of sexual difference...
A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century, Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founder...
M/modesty looks at two modesties: one that was dictated as a rule of obligatory decorum for women in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and one that was developed...
Re-Assembling Motherhood(s) invites the reader to learn about and from Maternal Fantasies feminist research and collective artistic practice on motherhood(s), care work and representation in the arts. Composed of seven...
Meeting Grounds is an artistic project that seeks to explore the formation of community and our changing perceptions towards publicness through the medium of public space. The project grew in resonance...
Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society marks the twentieth anniversary of what has been acclaimed as “the most active, prolific and intrepid group of experimental filmmakers working in...
In the last century, photography was always novel. Now, it feels like our world is over-saturated with images. In the 21st century, what can photography do that is new? This...
When the exhibition enters the digital realm, as it is increasingly happening now when the display of art and culture can be enjoyed individually behind screens, then how does the...
Design in Conservative Times tackles conservatism in and around design, challenging both designer and user to actively engage with, and reflect upon their positions within our current, politically charged landscape....
To explore the relationship between fiction and design, zine editor and curator Joanette van der Veer and Maria Pestana set up a lab during the first edition of the Porto...
Gorge magazine was put in the oven at 180 degrees and left to cook for the best part of seven months. Aiming to tantalise the tastebuds and reawaken the senses,...
How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing, engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, art professionals and other aspiring writers, the book...
The collective trauma of the pandemic has become an excuse for global capital to accelerate the total commodification of everyday life. Everything is for sale. There is more merchandise than...
In a time of heightened global crisis, the systems that shape our world are becoming increasingly fragile. While ecosystems are being destroyed, political processes are being manipulated, economic structures exploited...
Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where...
Forces of Art investigates the way in which artists, artworks and cultural organisations affect people and their social environments, and explores how cases of creative practice have been operational in...
The pandemic has once again made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead. Dramaturg Guy Cools has been...
The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience,...
Chaque Mercredi Caracas presents a sequence of black and white images taken from the travel sections of the newspapers Le Monde and The New York Times, from the 1960s onwards....
Border thinking has become a defining feature of the global social order in the twenty-first century. In Being a Border, art historian, critic, and theorist Nuit Banai writes on the...
The term ‘foodscapes’—a combination of food and landscape—refers to the social and spatial organization of networks and systems of food provisioning. In other words, the physical places and social practices...
Rewriting Architecture explores and embraces the potential of place. The book claims that the idea of ‘tabula rasa’, or creating from scratch, is no longer a viable option. It considers...
Design Struggles critically assesses the ways in which the design field is involved in creating, perpetuating, promoting and reinforcing injustice and inequality in social, political, economic, cultural and ecological systems. This...
Despite decades of postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist and queer activism and theorizing, the art world continues to exclude ‘Other’ artists – those who are women, of colour and LGBTQ. Indeed, the...
Home Works – A Cooking Book: Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work, expands on cooking with art and food as a process for coming together and building collectivity....
Art, Engagement, Economy: the Working Practice of Caroline Woolard proposes a politics of transparent production in the arts, whereby heated negotiations and mundane budgets are presented alongside documentation of finished...
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must...
This book examines how Western photographic practice has been used as a tool for creating Eurocentric and violent visual regimes, and demands that we recognise and disrupt the ingrained racist...
In Strangers, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times. From ‘On Watermelon’ to...
In The Yak Dilemma, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal ventures out of the mountain ranges of Palampur and across vast distances of land and sea. From scenes playing out through Dublin windows...
The positions adopted by Hito Steyerl in her works and texts are of key importance in any consideration of the contemporary role that art and the museum play in society....
Curator Conversations is a collection of interviews with leading curators working within contemporary photography today. It offers precious insights into key modes of thinking behind the curatorial practices that have...
Sixteen culture-makers who are Zeitzeugen (contemporary witnesses) of the COVID-19 pandemic sketch how things can be different in the future. Their visions for the future came about as a reaction...
As museums shut worldwide in 2020 because of the novel coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist András Szántó conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum leaders. In...
The use of social media has become an everyday activity, one that established and young artists cannot, and indeed do not want to, do without. They work with it. They...
There are few topics that evoke so many different notions and images as do farmers and agriculture. The publication Images of Farming explores the production of these images in the...
Food and urban farming as a source of spatial, social and economic renewal With 35 inspiring examples from Western Europe, North America, Japan and Australia Farming the City explores the...
Multifaceted exploration into the history and future of creativity and creative processes Accessible read, exploring a new creative language, in which theories and practice meet A plea for the importance...
A proposal to radically change education through creativity Explores core values and key concepts to create future-proof attitudes and perspectives No School Manifesto is a book that serves as a...
Sparks art practices, art education and creativity by setting inspiring frameworks and questions Stimulates cooperation and cross-disciplinary thinking and practising Funny, crazy, awe-inspiring, poetical, bold; in its bandwidth a truly...
addresses the complexity and contradictions of male identities from both a male as female perspective with provocative artists’ contributions, personal stories, historic and academic perspectives, short stories highly topical in...
Art Isn’t Fair is the title of the last video completed in 2012 by Allan Sekula (1951-2013), a work commenting on the rise of art fairs as yet another international...
A slipcased set of all three books in the Photofile Women Photographers series. Women have been pioneering photographers since the earliest days of the art form. This expertly curated set...
The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson is a set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world. With the rise...
Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave...
Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell is a new manifesto for cyberfeminism. Simone de Beauvoir said, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One is not...
Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History is a pioneering study of how ideas about white women have shaped the history of racism. How have ideas about white women...
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism. The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still...
From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad. Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them...
An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. No other country and no other period...
With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism. Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of...
'Sonntag' is a nomadic project founded by artists Adrian Schiesser and April Gertler in 2012 and takes place in different private Berlin apartments. Instead of relying solely on the exhibition...
