Inefficient Mapping: A Protocol for Attuning to Phenomena

Published: 08/05/2021

Working from a speculative, more-than-human ontological position, Inefficient Mapping: A Protocol for Attuning to Phenomena presents a new, experimental cartographic practice and non-representational methodological protocol that attunes to the subaltern genealogies of sites and places, proposing a wayfaring practice for traversing the land founded on an ethics of care. As a methodological protocol, inefficient mapping[…]

Œ Case Files, Vol. 01

Published: 05/13/2021

Over the past ten years, the journal Organs Everywhere (Œ) has promoted conversations that approach architectural design from the edges of the discipline—testing its boundaries, technologies, methods and (e)valuation systems, and keeping them unstable. It has valued transdisciplinary, speculative, and irreverent explorations over strict publishing formats and academic purity, promoting a profanatory and open-ended ethos.[…]

Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden’s “Wanda” (1970)

Imprint: Dead Letter Office

Published: 07/29/2021

There is indeed a “miracle” in the 1970 film Wanda. This film has survived, despite decades of neglect, to emerge into the fuliginous light of an era that may just be ready to strain at grasping its harsh and brutal truths—truths that reveal the imbrication of the psychic in the social and the experiential in[…]

Cinema’s Doppelgängers

Published: 06/17/2021

Cinema’s Doppelgängers is a counterfactual history of the cinema—or, perhaps, a work of speculative fiction in the guise of a scholarly history of film and movie guide. That is, it’s a history of the movies written from an alternative unfolding of historical time—a world in which neither the Bolsheviks nor the Nazis came to power,[…]

Closer to Dust

Imprint: tiny collections

Published: 08/27/2021

No one thinks straight. At least no one remembers straight. But ten years ago, things were different, weren’t they? Roland Barthes once wrote that color in a photograph is like make-up on a corpse. No one is fooled. In anarchic denial of convenient truths, a young international couple meet and marry on a small Mediterranean[…]

Broken Narrative: The Politics of Contemporary Art in Albania

Imprint: Department of Eagles

Published: 01/27/2022

Broken Narrative provides an extensive reflection on history, politics, and contemporary art, revolving around the artistic practice of Albanian artist Armando Lulaj. The core of the book is formed by an extended interview of Lulaj by Italian artist and writer Marco Mazzi. This inquiry starts in the year 1997, a year of social and political[…]

Siting Futurity: The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna

Published: 05/06/2021

Siting Futurity: The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna shows how cultural practitioners in and around Vienna draw on their historical knowledge of locality to create rousing productions designed to get audiences to inform themselves about useful aspects of history, to engage their presents, and to help make possible more[…]

Between Species/Between Spaces: Art and Science on the Outer Cape

Published: 08/13/2020

Between Species/Between Spaces assembles text and images resulting from a pilot artistic research residency hosted by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust and the Cape Cod National Seashore in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Artists in the book reflect on the geological forces that are reshaping the landscape and ecology of the Outer Cape which illuminate and[…]