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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.

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

Bianka Rolando's first book published in English, Inselbergs is a volume of poetry accompanied by the author's own lithographs, combining word and image to reflect her interdisciplinary practice.

The English translation of Matthieu Peck's third novel, in which he confirms his talent as a stylist.

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.

An expansive, wide-ranging exploration of the long, little-known prehistory of contemporary media.

An insect theory of media to understand our media devices and our technological modernity.

A legendary artist's book finally reissued in an updated and revised version, Enseigner et apprendre, a truly collaborative work, provides a valuable introduction to Robert Filliou's work and his pioneering and innovative ideas on the educational dimension of artistic creation.

A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.

This collection of texts on design by the avant-garde Italian architectural group Superstudio (1966-1982) highlights one of the most powerful and complex moments in the period of Italian architectural neo-avant-garde, revealing a progressive and increasingly radical reflection on the meaning of design, on architecture and design as forms of thought, and finally on life itself as a project.

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).

A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives (new revised edition).

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

The choreographic in cinema.

By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.

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 seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.

La ville pour tous is a collection of writings by the great architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, offering an overview of his work and of Brazilian society in the second half of the twentieth century.

Eiscafé Europa is a cartwheeling essay collection by Enis Maci on the culture, media, and politics of Europe. Comprehensive in its targets, the author mixes the personal and political to skewer and expose the media strategies and fascist lineage of the Identitarian Movement.

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.

When considered in parallel, Sigmund Freud's study of Michelangelo's Moses and his private collection of antique statuettes reveal elements of visual psychoanalysis that contradict the supposedly iconoclastic nature of this science.

Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos examines the interplay of education, identity, and liberation in Brazil's travesti community.

The first English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's "My Heart Belongs to the Finnish Poor", originally published as "Suomen köyhälistölle kuuluu sydämeni" by the Finnish Trade Union Federation in 1911. The essay is printed in 200 copies as a risographed poster.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art's turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Over twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and a new foreword by the author.

The first French translation of Giorgio Grassi's 1967 text La construction logique de l'architecture [The Logical Construction of Architecture] is a strong statement in favor of an architecture conceived for its own sake, standing in opposition to the experimental excesses characteristic of both his time and ours.

First English language translation of Alexandra Kollontaï's writings on Finland from 1906.

Olavi Laiho's aliterative anti-fascist text written in 1944 in Oulu prison just before his execution. First time published in its original Finnish and in English translation.

First English edition of the visionary play by German playwright and communist activist Berta Lask (1878-1967).

The first volume of sdvig: translingual avant-gardes is a Berlin-based poet Dinara Rasuleva's poems written in her native Tatar language.

The first English translation of Viktor Shklovsky's children book Journey to the Land of Movies, originally published in 1926 in Russian.

Amid the relentless and unprecedented violence of the ongoing assault on Gaza, On the Zero Line emerges as a polyphonic collection of diaristic writings from Gazan people, offering a raw and vital attestation to their daily struggle for survival, memory, and even moments of ordinary life under siege.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

In The Infinite Now, Taras Gembik crafts an intimate meditation on solitude, faith, and the search for meaning, ten years in the making. Moving between Ukraine and Poland, these twenty-five poems trace a decade-long journey of self-discovery.

Drawing on feminist criticism and gender studies, the Brazilian poet creates a counter-discourse in which poetic language becomes a place for questioning stereotypes and redefining feminine identities.

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.

Winner of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, Michael Lentz's Motherdying is a radical, avant-garde masterpiece that redefines the language of grief through a visceral chronicle of the dying body.

An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.

Superior and Inferior presents a facsimile reprint of Italian abstract artist and feminist Carla Accardi's provocatory publication Superiore e Inferiore and the first ever English translation of the full text.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

All that grows: nature and writing chronicles the author's upbringing in Argentina, her exile to Spain, and her resulting reconciliation of place, memory, loss, and growth.

Pati Hill's cult novel, available in French for the first time since 1976 (also available in English edition).