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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle

How computation makes it more difficult to understand the world: Fully updated and revised

22 posts
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

by Claire Bishop

New and Updated: What is participatory art: the essential critique of Social Practice

14 posts
The Choreography of Everyday Life

by Annie-B Parson

A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the street

6 posts
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past

by Robert Bevan

Chosen as one of the best Architecture and Design books of 2022 by The Financial Times and one of the top art books of 2022 by The Art Newspaper

5 posts

Crisis as Form

by Peter Osborne

How does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? Through reflection on its own crisis of form

3 posts
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How we Became Postmodern

by Stuart Jeffries

A radical new history of a dangerous idea

9 posts
Last Futures

by Douglas Murphy

Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?

15 posts
Portraits

by John Berger

A lifetime’s encounter with artists: from prehistoric cave painting to the present

32 posts

Investigative Aesthetics

by Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman

A new field of counterinvestigation in journalism, human rights, art and law

3 posts
Culture Strike

by Laura Raicovich

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm and how they can be reimagined

5 posts
Capitalism and the Camera

Edited by Kevin Coleman and Daniel James

A provocative exploration of photography’s relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture

5 posts
How I Became A Socialist

by William Morris

The definitive collection of political writings from William Morris.

2 posts

Glitch Feminism

by Legacy Russell

A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between body, gender, and technology

15 posts
Sensoria

by McKenzie Wark

A survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the Anthropocene

5 posts
The Social Photo

by Nathan Jurgenson

A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world

9 posts
What Comes after Farce?

by Hal Foster

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump

3 posts

The Future of the Image

by Jacques Rancière

A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film

16 posts
The Intervals of Cinema

by Jacques Rancière

An essential analysis of cinema from one of the great figures of French philosophy

19 posts
Staging the People

by Jacques Rancière

Rancière’s classic essays from the 1970s, when he was developing his distinctive method

18 posts
Aisthesis

by Jacques Rancière

Rancière’s magnum opus on the aesthetic

21 posts

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