Imprint: Department of Eagles
Published: 12/02/2021
Resistance features a selection of overtly non-conformist positions in the contemporary visual arts scene of Albania vis-à-vis the most recent social, political, and economic turmoils in the Western Balkans—a region marked by the dark side of political governances that have remained “democratic” in their outward appearance only (especially toward the European Union), while dramatically leaning[…]
Published: 07/28/2022
Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty tackles “legacy” issues of intellectual property rights (IPR) in artistic production and academic scholarship and proposes a category or class of works that has no relation to IPR nor to proprietary regimes of copyright and academic privilege. Keeney’s book is a structuralist argument for establishing new forms of[…]
Published: 04/14/2022
In the early twentieth century, Uchiyama Gudō, Seno’o Girō, Lin Qiuwu, and others advocated a Buddhism that was radical in two respects. Firstly, they adopted a more or less naturalist stance with respect to Buddhist doctrine and related matters, rejecting karma or other supernatural beliefs. And secondly, they held political and economic views that were[…]
Published: 10/21/2021
What happens when the defining moment of your life might be a figment of your imagination? How do you understand—and live with—definitive feelings of having been abused when the origin of those feelings won’t adhere to a singular event but are rather diffused across years of experience? In Bullied: The Story of an Abuse, Jonathan[…]
Published: 05/19/2022
Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture brings together Black Studies and architectural theory. Only recently have architecture and urban planning started to confront their constitution of race as a social referent as well as their part in the establishment of racist logics. This confrontation usually results in projects that respond to their surroundings, that merge into a[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 12/15/2021
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media–music, videos, games, and software–before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free.[…]
Published: 11/11/2021
Winner of the 2021 best non-fiction Queer Indie Award Entropy Mag’s Best of 2020–2021 Non-Fiction Books Shortlisted for the ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) 2022 Book Prize The landscape of trauma is scattered with ghosts. Wolves hunkering in the shadows. Memory’s spectral persistence and evasion. Leaky bodies and selves[…]
Imprint: 3Ecologies Books
Published: 12/30/2021
Sweet Spots thinks transversally across language and body, and between text and tissue. This assemblage of essays collectively proposes that words—that is, language that lands as written text—are more-than-human material. And, these materials, composed of forces and flows and tendencies, are capable of generating text-flesh that grows into a thinking in the making. The practice[…]