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Sternberg PressSternberg Press Search for: Search 0 About Contact Distribution My Account Books: All Preview Series Authors Architecture & Urbanism Art Cultural Studies Design Ecology & Environment Fiction Film & Media Music Philosophy Politics Science & Technology SPECIAL OFFERS Cart Your cart is currently empty. Ingo Niermann The Monadic Age Notes on the Coming Social Order The Monadic Age offers a look into the playbook of the post-liberal mindset and defines how a new paradigm of self-sufficiency is about to force a reinvention of all social parameters. €21.95 Dexter Sinister yksihW kcalB The 15-year history of the production of a “German scotch” Black Whisky. €25.00 Julieta Aranda, Kaye Cain-Nielsen, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood (Eds.) WONDERFLUX A Decade of e-flux journal WONDERFLUX brings together a group of longtime contributors with graphic artists to collaborate on illustrated essays and develop a new pictorial language around some of the emergent consistencies and overarching issues that defined the first decade of e-flux journal. €18.00 T. J. Demos Radical Futurisms Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing. €19.00 Nicolas Bourriaud Inclusions Aesthetics of the Capitalocene The current ecological crisis brings about a new relational landscape: an unprecedented collapse of distances creates interspecies promiscuities and a crisis of the human scale. In his latest book, Inclusions, Nicolas Bourriaud proposes that artists are the anthropologists of this new era. €20.00 Valerie Solanas Up Your Ass Valerie Solanas’s rarely published, legendary play explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them through her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness and camp. €12.00 Denise Ferreira da Silva Unpayable Debt Unpayable Debt offers a black feminist reading of the political architecture of the global present. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred, the concept of the unpayable debt relates post-Enlightenment versions of ethical and economic value to colonial and racial subjugation. €22.00 Aria Dean Bad Infinity Selected Writings The most significant critical, theoretical, and art historical texts by the artist, writer, and filmmaker Aria Dean. €19.00 Isabelle Graw On the Benefits of Friendship A diaristic novel on contemporary friendship and its importance. €22.00 Kader Attia, Anselm Franke, Ana Teixeira Pinto (Eds.) The White West Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity Tracing the relation between fascism and settler colonialism. €21.95 Chus Martínez The Complex Answer On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence Imagine art and contemporary as an organ. An organ that produces an experience of inexpressible realities that are fundamental to understand life and its processes. €19.95 Nikil Saval A Rage in Harlem June Jordan and Architecture Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots. €14.00 Alex Coles Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. €16.95 Siôn Parkinson Stinkhorn How Nature's Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen A meditation on sound, this book invites us to listen through the nose and open the mind to the musical potential in unpleasant odors. €29.00 Richard Sennett Democracy and Urban Form If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? In 1981, Richard Sennett delivered six lectures about this relationship, and issued a call to action that remains relevant today. €21.95 Eva Forest A Strange Adventure Multivocal and anonymous, A Strange Adventure is oral-history-as-theater—the theater of memory, trauma, and torture. €12.00 Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Larcher, Alo Paistik, Skaya Siku (Eds.) Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today First global exploration of contemporary forms of filmmaking from political and cultural self-determination movements of Autochthonous communities and peoples. €22.00 Skye Arundhati-Thomas Lalitha Lajmi Award-winning author Skye Arundhati Thomas weaves readers into the life of Lalitha Lajmi, reflecting on the late Indian artist’s captivating self-portraits in her first published monograph. €14.00 Ramon Amaro The Black Technical Object On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being While machine learning—computer programming designed for taxonomic patterning—offers useful insights into racism and racist behavior, a gap is present in the relationship between machine learning and its connection to the racial history of science and the Black lived experience. €22.00 Steven Henry Madoff (Ed.) Why I Do What I Do Global Curators Speak Twenty renowned international curators write about one of their exhibitions or projects that transformed their ideas about curating. €15.95 Griselda Pollock Feminism, Pedagogy and the Studio Reflections Across Four Decades Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.   €12.00 Rosi Braidotti Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities. €14.00 Anna Colin Alternative Pedagogical Spaces From Utopia to Institutionalization A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining “alternative” with the passing of time. €12.00 Boka En, Sabine Grenz, Doris Guth, Fatma Uysal (Eds.) Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture. €20.95 Griselda Pollock Feminism, Pedagogy and the Studio Reflections Across Four Decades Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.   €12.00 Rosi Braidotti Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities. €14.00 Alex Coles Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. €16.95 Anna Colin Alternative Pedagogical Spaces From Utopia to Institutionalization A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining “alternative” with the passing of time. €12.00 Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Larcher, Alo Paistik, Skaya Siku (Eds.) Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today First global exploration of contemporary forms of filmmaking from political and cultural self-determination movements of Autochthonous communities and peoples. €22.00 Eva Forest A Strange Adventure Multivocal and anonymous, A Strange Adventure is oral-history-as-theater—the theater of memory, trauma, and torture. €12.00 Skye Arundhati-Thomas Lalitha Lajmi Award-winning author Skye Arundhati Thomas weaves readers into the life of Lalitha Lajmi, reflecting on the late Indian artist’s captivating self-portraits in her first published monograph. €14.00 Boka En, Sabine Grenz, Doris Guth, Fatma Uysal (Eds.) Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture. €20.95 Siôn Parkinson Stinkhorn How Nature's Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen A meditation on sound, this book invites us to listen through the nose and open the mind to the musical potential in unpleasant odors. €29.00 New Releases Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices The relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge as entanglement of multiple temporalities. €8.00 Josephine Berry Planetary Realism Art Against Apocalypse Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of ‘planetarity’ to understand a new realism in contemporary art. €21.95 Marc Camille Chaimowicz Writings and Interviews The collected writings of artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, along with the stories behind them told by Alexis Vaillant. €34.95 Charlotte Malterre-Barthes A Moratorium on New Construction A massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together. €17.95 Hans Ulrich Obrist Simone Fattal Hans Ulrich Obrist leads readers into the world of path-breaking Syrian artist Simone Fattal in this intensely personal volume. €15.00 Series A critical spatial practice is a means of rethinking one’s modes of action and codes of conduct. Edited by architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen, this series reinvents its internal structure according to the content of each volume: a toolbox that ranges from single-authored essays to conversations, manifestos, fiction, investigative journalism, historical studies, and artistic interventions, each accompanied by an artist contribution. The series follows the tradition of the discipline of architecture using the publication format as a testing ground for ideas. Critical Spatial Practice Founded in 2003 by Isabelle Graw and Daniel Birnbaum, Institut für Kunstkritik is a program that examines art criticism and connected disciplines. As well as single-authored books, this series comprises volumes based on symposia and lecture series, bringing together contributions by art historians, critics, artists, and writers. The goal of the series is to provide insights into current debates on the shifting relationship among criticism, art, and the market. Institut für Kunstkritik The Solution Series is a steadily growing collection of proposals related to nation-specific issues as well as contemporary borderless crises. Edited by writer Ingo Niermann, the series invites original and compact ideas from writers, artists, and designers familiar with the issues at hand. These solutions—which take the form of speculative essays, fiction, artistic interventions, design, or a combination thereof—are as imaginative as they are provocative, as unexpected as they are uncannily familiar. Solution Series imagine/otherwise presents critical biographies of underrepresented queer, non-binary, or female-identifying artists. Edited by Dr. Omar Kholeif and presented in collaboration with artPost21, the series emphasizes the concept of “female worlding” with books that serve as field guides into previously unexplored, overlooked, or inaccessible artistic lives. The overall proposition of the series (to “imagine” a world “otherwise”) stems from the desire to find a different way of writing and reading about art. Can art be examined unreservedly, unburdened of the limits imposed by the dominant hand of hegemony? Current editorial advisors for the series include Skye Arundhati Thomas, Zoe Butt, Carla Chammas, Alison Hearst, Sarah Perks and Sofia Victorino. Imagine Otherwise This series stems from a discontent with the indictment of identity politics as antithetical to “real” politics. The political, in this conception, is aligned with the need to transcend markers of identity that are said to hinder class solidarity and the potential for coalition building. Yet appeals to move beyond identity tend to leave unexamined the gender and racial schemas that undergird the notion of universalism, hence overlooking—and refracting—legacies of violence and oppression. On the Antipolitical aims to confront capitalist hegemony but does not aspire toward an abstract polity. Challenging the persistence of colonial formations in contemporary theory, the series argues that discussions of identity do not subtract or divert from political struggle, but rather add to it. The series is edited by Ana Teixeira Pinto. On the Antipolitical This series of paperback readers collects essays and interviews from the orbit of the monthly art publication edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle. Focusing on anthologies and single-authored books that further develop the journal’s investigation of cultural, political, and structural paradigms, the series aims to spotlight the most original voices in contemporary art and theory. Liam Gillick created the original cover design. e-flux journal Each book in the series takes the work of a single artist as its point of departure, spiraling outward to create an expansive and carefully edited ecosystem of ideas and voices. Each volume includes newly commissioned writing as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the year-long research seasons at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. A Series of Open Questions THE INCIDENTS is a book series based on events at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The series is edited by Ken Stewart and Marielle Suba and designed by ELLA. The Incidents The EP series fluidly moves between art, design, and architecture, and introduces the notion of the “extended play” into publishing, with thematically edited pocket books as median between popular magazines (“single play”) and academic journals (“long play”). EP From an economic perspective, art has traditionally been regarded as an instrument: artists and art are seen as an investment or factor of production that can be exchanged for something else. This publication series begins by exploring the intentional in art rather than the instrumental. How can we account for art without reducing it to its components or effects? Without first instrumentally embedding it in the traditional conversations, cultures, and habits of the art world? Experiments in Art and Capitalism Edited by culinary historian Charlotte Birnbaum, On the Table is a series of publications exploring the encounter between food and art. On the Table Montana is a propositional series exploring the adjacencies of the literary and the visual, the poetic and the political. Deeply invested in the production of a radical present and future, the books of Montana form an ecology of thought that is connected in spirit, practice, and language, yet distinct and diverse, spanning geographies and time. Edited by Leah Whitman-Salkin. Montana Edited by Anthony Downey, Research/Practice focuses on artistic research and how it contributes to the formation of experimental knowledge systems. Drawing on preliminary material such as diaries, notebooks, audiovisual content, digital and social media, informal communications, and abandoned drafts, the series examines the interdisciplinary research methods that artists employ in their practices. Each volume endeavors to ask: In their often speculative and yet purposeful approach to generating research, what forms of knowledge do artists produce? Research/Practice Visual culture is a cross-disciplinary site of encounter for divergent perspectives, including competing attitudes toward the ethical status and ideological functioning of the visual itself. Each volume in this series investigates a single pertinent topic: two colleagues with shared interests—and differing points of view—examine their chosen subject in a particularized and probing manner. Within the format—two essays and a conversation—contents unfold in their own way with respect to their positions, polemics, and poetics. The series is edited by Jorella Andrews, professor in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. Visual Cultures as… The Contemporary Condition offers a sustained inquiry into contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present. Departing from the assumption that the relationship between artistic practice and sociopolitical reality is radically changing, the series explores planetarity, the aesthetics of eco-systemic changes, and how the networked image can be understood as a relational assemblage to address the politics of infrastructure and wider ecologies. Series edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund. The Contemporary Condition Initiated by the Cultures of the Curatorial graduate program at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, this series assesses the curatorial turn in contemporary cultural practice and discourse. The contributing authors, from a variety of disciplines and professional backgrounds, consider recent developments within the curatorial field, allow for self-reflexive analysis, and explore the conditions—disciplinary, institutional, economic, political, and regional—under which art and culture become public. Cultures of the Curatorial The Sandberg Instituut at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, offers master programs in fields of art and design. Working to align the institute with urgent contemporary topics, director Jurgen Bey has introduced a series of one-off, two-year master programs. The Sandberg Series is a record of these temporary programs as well as a platform for critical reflection on this educational model. Each volume delves into the insights and outcomes of the program it covers and provides space for engagement with a broader public. Sandberg Series Thoughts on Curating presents a series of single-essay publications by some of the world's leading voices in curatorial practice and theory today. Edited by Steven Henry Madoff, founder of the master's program in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Thoughts on Curating Fogo Island Arts’ monographic publication series accompanies major solo exhibitions and commissions presented at the Fogo Island Gallery. The volumes provide extended consideration of an artist’s work in formats including critical essays, interviews, experimental writing and fiction. Combined with installation views, process documentation and artist contributions, FIA publications serve as a record of the artist’s time on Fogo Island and their creative contributions that can be disseminated internationally. Fogo Island Arts This series stems from the research-driven program of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Each comprehensive volume is edited by members of the university and comprises essays and artworks in an area of research related to art theory, cultural studies, or art history. The discussions in each volume represent those currently taking place in the university and elsewhere in academia and contemporary art. International conferences and research projects organized at the academy serve as the point of departure for the individual volumes. Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna This series of pocket-size books hones the format of the monograph and the critical essay. The black volumes showcase projects by artists such as Isa Genkzen, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Tue Greenfort, contextualizing them through the writings of noted international critics and curators. The white volumes contain essays by prominent critics and curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Birnbaum, and Jean-Yves Leloup on urgent theoretical issues of the day. Lukas & Sternberg The Jahresring is an annual publication series—a “meeting point for creative and critical forces,” as its inaugural issue stated in 1954—one of the longest running in Germany for contemporary art and literature. In 1989, Brigitte Oetker became the series editor and revamped the conceptual orientation of the content. Each year, alternating guest editors—curators, artists, scientists—are invited to reflect on current trends and issues in art and society. Jahresring Bulletins of The Serving Library is a composite printed/electronic publication published by Dexter Sinister. Each of the twelve issues makes up a semester’s worth of material—original writings, reprints, and artist contributions—on a variety of themes such as libraries, media, and time; education; typography; psychedelia; Germany; fashion; numbers; sports and games; and color. The Bulletins ran from 2011 to 2017. Bulletins of The Serving Library News BOOK LAUNCH_PARIS Writings and Interviews To mark the release of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Writings and Interviews, Shmorevaz is hosting a weekend launch in Paris. Marc Camille Chaimowicz (1946-2024) was an acclaimed visual artist known for his performances, installations and curatorial flair. He was also a writer. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of writings by the artist, includes seminal interviews, chitchats, jokes, performance reports, insightful statements and letters in essay form, as well as rare documents, such as early surviving leaflets, typewriter handouts and hard-to-find articles. Spanning 1971-2023, the book unlocks the work of an artist considered to be a refreshing role model for a new generation of culture mavens and style savants. Drawing form literature, modernist architecture, interior design, art theory, glam rock and camp culture, the collection reveals the artist’s inner self alongside the art, social flânerie and the goings-on of his time. Entertaining and witty, the texts stand out brilliantly with their early acumen and inclusivity, while setting a new template for an expression of queerness through writing. With access to Chaimowicz’s personal material and photographs, curator and editor Alexis Vaillant is a guide to the artist’s writings. This book presents readers with an in-depth look into Chaimowicz’s quixotic shaping of his written work, which comes to life as a knowing and longing prose for the twenty-first century. Friday 7 March, 6-9pm Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 March, 2-6pm Shmorevaz, Paris  Free entry and open to the public.     BOOK LAUNCH_LONDON Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse Josephine Berry will be in conversation with Ron Gray and Georgia Perkins, on the occasion of the launch of Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse. The devastation left in the wake of modernity and globalization is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet, and humanity has awakened to a new real. If the old “realist” tools of objectivism have contributed to capitalist society’s divorce from the natural world, how are artists finding new ways to make us really see – and feel- the planet? Surveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices, and activism, Josephine Berry investigates art’s power to break with capitalist realism and decarbonize the imagination. With chapters on feeling as world-making, the rupture of petroleum landscapes, artists’ urban exodus, and migration as survival, Planetary Realism delves deeply into art’s necessary reimagining of life on Earth. Saturday 1 March, 4-6pm FormaHQ London Find out more about the event here.    Free entry. RSVP is required: rsvp@forma.org.uk  BOOK LAUNCH_BRUSSELS A Moratorium on New Construction Join Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Lara Almarcegui on the occasion of the launch of A Moratorium on New Construction. The event will be moderated by Nikolaus Hirsch. To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the product of extractive processes. Driven by greedy economies, the global enterprise of space production expands, impacting climate, earth, water, humans, and non-humans everywhere. However housing is both a human right and the mandate of design disciplines: How to navigate the need for housing versus the destructive practice of construction? Engaging with unsettling questions, A Moratorium on New Construction envisions a massive value shift for our existing stock. From housing redistribution to reinviting value generation, from anti-extractive measures to profound structural changes, from curricula reforms to purging the exploitative culture of the office, an entire rewiring of design processes and construction lays ahead. Somewhere between a thought experiment and a call for action, A Moratorium on New Construction is a leap of faith to envision a less extractive future, made of what we have: Not demolishing, not building new, but building less, building with what exists, inhabiting it differently, and caring for it. Thursday 6 March, 7pm CIVA Brussels  Find out more about the event here.   This is a ticketed event. Please book your ticket here.  TALK_LONDON What to Let Go? Delfina Foundation is hosting a double book launch for What to Let Go? and Ten Thousand Suns. Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero will be in conversation with historian and writer Samir Khatun, and cultural critic and curator, Marian Pastor Roces. Thursday 21 November, 6.30pm to 8pm (doors open and refreshments from 6.15pm). Delfina Foundation London Further information about the event can be found here.  Free access. Bookings essential. Please book your ticket here.    BOOK LAUNCH—LONDON Fusion! A conversation between Alex Coles and Danalogue to celebrate the launch of the book Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother. Followed by a live performance featuring Danalogue and Robyn’s Rocket, and a DJ set with the Vinyl Bunnies. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collaborations. From Alice Coltrane working with Carlos Santana in 1974 to Moor Mother sharing the mic with Wolf Weston in 2022, the collaborations-cum-chapters reveal how musicians pursue fusion as a process. With sonic fusion always premised on cultural fusion, each of the collaborations find musicians using the mixing of genres to explore fusions of generations, eras, philosophies, sensibilities, idioms, histories, and even continents. When the musicians hail from contrasting musical genres their collaboration leads to a dynamic tension, typified by free jazz trumpeter Don Cherry recording with Lou Reed, Kendrick Lamar cutting tracks with saxophonist Kamasi Washington, Miles Davis playing with electric guitarist John McLaughlin and synth player Danalogue joining Shabaka Hutchings and Max Hallett to form the Comet is Coming. Fusion! pushes the music of overlooked musicians—such as post-punk singer and saxophone player Lora Logic—to the fore while emphasizing overlooked aspects of the oeuvres of better-known figures such as Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Neneh Cherry and FourTet. To characterize their unique approach to fusion, each of the examples Coles explores are driven by a dynamic sonic principle coined by the musicians themselves. Tuesday 5 November, 6.30pm til’ late The Library Lounge at The Standard London   BOOK LAUNCH—EDINBURGH Stinkhorn Join author Siôn Parkinson for a special launch of Stinkhorn. How Nature’s Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odors resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus, bursting out of a subterranean egg to poke above the ground, where it lures insects towards its slimy, fetid cap. In Stinkhorn, artist, musician, and writer Siôn Parkinson asks: What can the pervasive stench of this mushroom and the droning noise of the flies compelled towards it reveal about how sounds and smells are combined in the imagination? A heady mix of natural history, science writing, musicology, philosophy of the senses, and illness memoir, Parkinson uses examples of so-called bad smells to argue for a theory of Stink as a kind of “smelling sound.” Alongside images and insights from the author’s search for stinkhorn fungi in nature, the book expands upon the philosophy of listening to consider the role of the nose and the “nasal imaginary” in how we make sense of sound. In this treatise on malodors and how they can transform the conditions for listening, Parkinson considers John Cage’s silent fungal forays, Brian Eno’s compositions with perfumes, the hum note of a vibrating bell, the “eggy” odor of space, and the author’s own hallucinated stench as the result of an epileptic seizure. What links these disparate ideas and sensory experiences can be found in a single encounter with a ripe stinkhorn mushroom. Monday 4 November, 7.30pm. Doors open 7pm Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh  2 Blenheim Place Edinburgh EH7 5JH Tickets can be purchased here. PANEL DISCUSSION Democracy and Urban Form A pair of events mark the release of Democracy and Urban Form, a new book featuring a series of lectures delivered by the eminent sociologist Richard Sennett at Harvard Graduate School Of Design in 1981. Copublished with Harvard Design Press. Wednesday 9 October Please join philosopher Michael Sandel, as he will deliver a lecture that draws on themes from his book titled Democracy’s Discontent. 6.30pm, Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Thursday 10 October A panel discussion including Richard Sennett, Diane Davis, Claire Zimmerman, Markus Miessen and Miguel Robles-Durán will reflect on the state of democracy in relation to architecture and cities. 12.30pm, Gund Hall Stubbins Room 112, Harvard Graduate School Of Design. Free and open to the public.     TALK_ONLINE Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations Trevor Paglen will be in conversation with Anthony Downey about the recently published book Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations. How machine learning and computer vision generate images. Although often considered to be a fault or a glitch in the system, the event of hallucination is central to the models of image production generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Through mining the latent space of computer vision, Trevor Paglen’s series Adversarially Evolved Hallucination (2017-ongoing) reveals this phantasmal and hallucinatory domain. In the conversation included in this volume, he discusses how we can think from within these opaque structures and, in turn, questions the frequently inflated claims made on behalf of automated image-production systems. In an accompanying essay, Anthony Downey explores the uncanny realm of algorithmically induced images and proposes that AI, through its generative modelling of the world, invariably estranges us from the present and the future. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation. Saturday 28 September, 9pm CEST Online Book a free ticket for the event here.      BOOK LAUNCH & TALK—PARIS What to Let Go? KADIST Paris is hosting a double book launch for What to Let Go? and Ten Thousand Suns, edited by Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero. What to Let Go? is copublished by Para Site. Wednesday 4 September, 6:30pm to 8pm KADIST Paris Find out more about the event here. Free access.  ANNOUNCEMENT Sternberg Press at NYABF 2024 Sternberg Press will be at the NY Art Book Fair from April 25–28. Barbara Casavecchia and Omar Berrada will also be participating in The Classroom series as part of the fair’s public program to discuss Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans, edited by Barbara Casavecchia and published by Sternberg Press in May 2023. To find a full list of exhibitors and events, please see the NYABF’s website here.   BOOK LAUNCH & TALK—BERLIN Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life To celebrate the launch of Kathrin Böhm Art on the Scale of Life, artist/organiser Kathrin Böhm will be in conversation with art historian/critic Christoph Chwatal to discuss the intersection between art and economics, and interdependent spaces for transformative action. Thursday 7 March, 7:30pm Pro qm Berlin Find out more about the event here. BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL DISCUSSION—SYDNEY What to Let Go? How can art reconfigure our collective foundational myths? And of what should we let go on the journey towards figuring it out? To celebrate the launch of What to Let Go? editors Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guererro, and contributors Nikau Hindin, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Pablo José Ramírez, Marian Pastor Roces and Vivian Ziherl will be in conversation with moderator Claire Shea. Together they will discuss what counts as heritage now, who gets to do the counting, and broader related issues around the subject of cultural sovereignty. What to Let Go? is copublished by Para Site. This event is presented as part of the opening weekend program for the 24th Biennale of Sydney. Saturday 9 March, 6pm UNSW Galleries Sydney Find out more about the event and register here. BOOK LAUNCH & CONVERSATION—NEW YORK Citizens of the Cosmos Citizens of the Cosmos examines the artist Anton Vidokle’s films and the Cosmist philosophy underpinning them. It features essays and conversations with Vidokle by seminal contemporary theorists, curators, and artists: Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Keti Chukhrov, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Daniel Muzyczuk, Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Raqs Media Collective. This is the first book to survey Vidokle’s Cosmism-related filmic output, begun in 2014, and includes full scripts from the films. For the book’s launch at the Swiss Institute, Vidokle will screen one of his films, Autotrofia (2020), and will be joined afterwards in conversation with Elizabeth Povinelli and Liam Gillick. Wednesday 20 March, 7pm Swiss Institute New York Find out more about the event here. To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net. Best Sellers Denise Ferreira da Silva Unpayable Debt Unpayable Debt offers a black feminist reading of the political architecture of the global present. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred, the concept of the unpayable debt relates post-Enlightenment versions of ethical and economic value to colonial and racial subjugation. €22.00 Valerie Solanas Up Your Ass Valerie Solanas’s rarely published, legendary play explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them through her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness and camp. €12.00 Martin Herbert Tell Them I Said No This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms. Providing a counterargument to this concept of self-marketing, Herbert examines the nature of retreat, whether in protest, as a deliberate conceptual act, or out of necessity. €18.00 T. J. Demos Decolonizing Nature Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology By engaging artists’ widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe—looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North—Decolonizing Nature offers a significant and original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. €22.00 e-flux journal Navigation Beyond Vision For Farocki, the computer-animated, navigable images that constitute the twenty-first century’s “ruling class of images” call for new tools of analysis, prompting him to ask: How does the shift from montage to navigation alter the way images—and art—operate as models of political action and modes of political intervention? €18.00 Beatrice von Bismarck The Curatorial Condition In The Curatorial Condition, Beatrice von Bismarck considers the field of activity and knowledge that relates to the exhibiting of art and culture. The curatorial, in her analysis, is a domain of practice and meaning with its own conditions, rules, and procedures. €22.00 Alexandra Midal Design by Accident For a New History of Design In Design by Accident, Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design—in and on its own terms. This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the legacies of design’s established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present. €22.00 Nicolas Bourriaud Inclusions Aesthetics of the Capitalocene The current ecological crisis brings about a new relational landscape: an unprecedented collapse of distances creates interspecies promiscuities and a crisis of the human scale. In his latest book, Inclusions, Nicolas Bourriaud proposes that artists are the anthropologists of this new era. €20.00 Ina Blom Houses to Die In And Other Essays on Art The essays assembled in this volume were all written during the past twenty years or so—a period in which Ina Blom pursued art critical writing alongside more academic work and when the boundaries between the two genres were at times deliberately blurred. €22.00 €16.50 Isabelle Graw Three Cases of Value Reflection Ponge, Whitten, Banksy In response to recent discussions about the value assigned to artworks, art critic and theorist Isabelle Graw introduces the term “value reflection.” Rather than an objective quality, value reflection is the potential for the specific artistic labor expended for artworks to be found in them. This book focuses on the artistic production of writer Francis Ponge and artists Jack Whitten and Banksy, and engages with the different types of value reflection detected in their work. €12.00 €6.00 Sternberg Press Ltd71–75 Shelton StreetLondon WC2H 9JQUK. mail@sternberg-press.com Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy Colophon Newsletter Newsletter Subscription Firstname Lastname Email Twitter_Logoenen1771398040https://sternberg-press.com

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