Through an analysis of the social and cultural history of the imperative of "creativity" that now shapes our lives, Andreas Reckwitz examines the paradoxical promises of aesthetic capitalism.

A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.

A study of the affects and effects of Russian narratives and their global dissemination.

The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.

The last writings of Antonin Artaud published in English and brought together in one edition for the first time.

A novel about the coming-of-age of a gaze.

The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.

A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.

Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.

Sylvia Sasse explores and analyzes subversive affirmation as a critical practice in different political systems.

Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts.

Reflections on the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.

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

A reflection on the autonomy and eternity of art by Canadian writer Madeleine Thien, based on a mural in the Thousand Buddha Grottoes of Bezeklik, China.

The edition offers a new approach to what Ines Weizman names "documentary architecture," meaning that to write about the history of a building is also to map the world in which it is located.

The Photograph Looked Back at Me is a series of prose miniatures, each born from an image the author cannot turn away from: a ghostly plant printed in a book about Chernobyl; a miner's face obscured by smoke, hanging in a Kyiv gallery; a picture of Katja Petrowskaja's parents, from an old family album.

For the first time, Gisèle Vienne presents all the dolls she has staged throughout her career.

The first in a series of four books in children's book format, composed as a series of tragic children's stories that Jérôme Zonder knows so well how to write and draw.

French ceramicist Jacques Monneraud's first monograph, So-Called Reality, covers three years of the artist's practice and focuses on his trompe-l'œil cardboard ceramics.

Catalogue.

A critical history of a fundamental video art event: the large-scale study of the entire history of Locarno's VideoArt Festival, the culmination of a four-year research project.

A detailed overview and history of "ero-guro-nansense", an editorial, artistic and literary movement of iconoclastic and subversive magazines in Japan in the 1925-1930s, ancestor and precursor of the post-war Japanese underground.

This extensive monographic publication offers a comprehensive examination of Rómulo Macció's painting, situating his work within the development of modern and contemporary Latin American art.

Three texts by the Marxist theorist from the Czechoslovak avant-garde of the interwar period, Karel Teige, translated into English for the first time.

New edition.

A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create another pedagogical turning point.

Published several years after the fact, "Exposure" is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd's solo exhibition "Hold" at Kunstverein München in 2021.

Invited by Erik Verhagen, a group of artists from both sides of the Atlantic share their views on François Morellet's work.

An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.

An anthology of texts devoted to cinematographic editing (Eisenstein, Tarkovski, Bazin, Godard, Wiseman, van der Keuken, Deleuze, Agamben...), from the beginning of the 20th century to today (new expanded edition).

Collected texts.

A collective reflection on the tensions and shifts taking place in design, in light of contemporary and future challenges, combining forward-looking visions with concrete experiments, and bringing together theoretical approaches, manifestos, and analyses of design practices, from a critical perspective that responds to the environmental, social, cultural, technological, and political transformations of our time.

Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way.

An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.

The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.

Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.

The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.

A call-to-arms for creatives to make their work widely accessible as a political and communal act.

This intimate publication documents an iconic art space of the 20th century, the Warsaw apartment and studio of Polish artists Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925–2004)—a lively artistic and social space shared by multiple artists.

Azimuts devotes issue 62 to the questions that the fake poses to forms of visibility, whether in the field of art or not.

This volume revisits Alain Badiou's renunciation of his postulate that mathematics is ontology, and questions the legacy of French epistemology.

In this essay, Thierry de Duve leaves the aesthetics and history of the art to approach, under the religious prism, two anthropological questions that the mutation of the symbolic order in progress makes pressing: the difference of the sexes and the future of the politics of emancipation.

New monograph, based on Saskia Holmkvist's film Margaret (Back Translation), weaving together staged scenes, documentary elements and archival footage, exploring the recent history of Belfast through a series of tonally diverse scenes, by turns comic, elegiac and speculative.

Weekly Planner I & II by Silje Iversen Kristiansen is two individual pocket-books filled with drawings. The drawings records in a fragmented way her subjective experience of life in time and space. Each book covers the span of a year, always starting in May and ending in April. In addition to the drawings, the books contain a text by Jan Verwoert that reflects upon the subject at hand.