Exploring the relationship between the Situationist International and the museum.

This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative—a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants—and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects.

A collection of unpublished or rare texts by architect and theoretician Frederick Kiesler written between 1927 and 1957.

An attempt to define the spirit of an age: exploring how today's myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology—through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table—Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.

Spells is the first collection of Irena Haiduk's writing, gathering her texts and limited-edition publications since 2007.

This book is the result of four years of collaborative work that focused on topics of affect, the return of history, ecology, and art and its markets in today's power law–based economies. It attempts to shift practices of thought toward both critical realism and new materialism.

Cutting across diverse thematic interests and modes of investigation, the thirty-five essays in Realism Materialism Art (RMA) offer a snapshot of the emerging and rapidly changing set of ideas and practices proposed by contemporary realisms and materialisms, and examine their ramifications on the arts.

Rike Frank and Grant Watson's research project examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works.

This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.

A presentation of the key figures and the basic concepts of Lettrist cinema, which prefigured the breakthroughs of the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema.

A reader.

In the Holocene is based on a 2012 group exhibition of the same name at the MIT List Visual Arts Center that explored art as a speculative science, investigating principles more commonly associated with scientific or mathematical thought.

The meaning of performance and performativity today.

A manifesto to reestablish a social and aesthetic dialogue between visual art, pedagogy, and psychology, philosophy, critical journalism, etc.

The possibility of concrete truth as a working hypothesis, for an art that not only represents and documents, but engages in specific political and social situations—and for an activism that searches for intelligent, creative means of self-empowerment.

This book excavates the notion of forensis (Latin for “pertaining to the forum”) to designate the role of material forensics in articulating new notions of public truth. The condition of forensis is one in which aesthetic practices, new technologies, and architectural research methodologies bear upon the legal implications of political struggle, violent conflict, and climate change.

Speculative Drawing presents fifteen books—from monographs and translations to collections of essays—that emerged from the research platform Speculative Poetics, conceived by Armen Avanessian in 2011.

A long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa, on the theme of the stories and spirits of a parallel avant-garde.

A collection of essays on contemporary art, literature, landscape, aesthetics, and cultural history.

Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space.

A series of provocative projects by the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.”

A collection of essays in which Chantal Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in today's world and their relation to the development of art practices.

In his influential 1986 text, now translated into English for the first time, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space.

Theoretical reflections and insights into alternative artistic working models.

Art as the result of a thinking process (a vast survey of recent debates around art schools and their methods).

Contemporary art and the “colonial present.”

New perspectives on design and its possible critical dimension.

How ongoing transformations in social housing are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists.

An anthology that examines the poetics and politics of interior experience within the frame of contemporary art.

The performative dimension of the curatorial.

What is “work” today and what is its relation to art.

A study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of installation art.

The complex and contested entanglements of contemporary art and its commercial markets.

An anthology of writings by curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas.

A study in which Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman discusses the way that forensic investigation and identification of Joseph Mengele's remains marks a transition, giving way to an "era of forensics", in which things—such as bones—act as the witnesses of past events.

A study of transdisciplinary studio models of artists (Olafur Eliasson and Jorge Pardo), product designers (Konstantin Grcic), and graphic designers (Åbäke).

A project that presents and discusses contemporary design practices that engage with political and societal issues.

A selection of recent writings by the art critic, galvanizing central themes Verwoert has been developing in pursuit of a language to describe art's transformative potential in conceptual, performative, and emotional terms.

The Nightmare of Participation calls for a format of conflictual participation—no longer a process by which others are invited “in,” but a means of acting without mandate, as uninvited irritant: a forced entry into fields of knowledge that arguably benefit from exterior thinking.

An investigation of the latent yet easily overlooked issue of social class in contemporary art.

What happens when you look at design as some thing more than a service-based relationship between client and designer? What new strategies and models help to question and challenge the limits of design? What outer circumstances influence this kind of practice?

Net Pioneers 1.0 discusses media art history with a new, interdisciplinary look at the historical, social, and economic dynamics of our contemporary, networked society.

Towards the art world's inner contradictions between symbolic meaning and monetary value.

A study that conceptualizes, tests, and practically applies the spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle.

A manual for what bears, sustains, and props, for those things that encourage, care for, and assist; for that which advocates, articulates; for what stands behind, frames, and maintains: a manual for those things that give support.

“East Coast Europe,” which took place during Spring 2008, is a project about the perceptions of contemporary European identity and its relation to spatial practices and international politics.