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The author, artist, and curator Olivier Marboeuf takes us on a journey through myths, archives, and fables, where fire symbolizes Caribbean culture, colonial oppression, and ecological disasters, and where the echo of past revolts becomes the spark for future insurrections.

A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.

Madhusree Dutta writes on hierarchy and exclusion in cinematic practices.

The book begins with one single verse of poetry on "Abdallāh - The Slain" (Abdallāh al Qateel), a poet who was killed by the last thing he saw: the columns of the castle as palm trees. The rest of the book is footnotes on each word in this verse, and on the works of this poet, who only exists on the margins of the arabic literary canon.

A text by Merle Kröger inaugurating the "Howdunnit" series, part crime literature and part archival research, exploring how different modes of investigation converge and diverge.

A text by Iman Mersal inaugurating the "Howdunnit" series, part crime literature and part archival research, exploring how different modes of investigation converge and diverge.

A sharp and creative reflection on the interweaving of personal and national/ideological dreams.

Russian writer and philosopher Oxana Timofeeva was born and grew up in various parts of the USSR. The book explores the difficulty of reducing one's sense of homeland to one's country alone, the philosophical interconnectedness of movement and rootedness, our plant and animal souls, and how we need to reimagine our desired, fictional if need be, homelands.

The research and series of exhibitions that this publication grew out of, is part of an ongoing project exploring the significant work of individuals, collectives and institutions in the field of alternative art and publishing practices, past and present.

A highly personal and sensitive exploration of motherhood.

Following a thread, from string figures though algorithms.

An in-depth manual for staging a private (or public) performance by Istanbul-based artist Cevdet Erek.

In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What's Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.

This publication proposes a set of aural exercises that show readers how to disappear, reappear, join a group, or leave a group. Its annex is a lexicon of some of the sounds that dwell in or are banished from the middle-class household.