Category: Authors
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CERFI – Analysis Everywhere
CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of the 1980s, a group in France quietly detonated the boundaries of politics, psychiatry, and collective life. CERFI – the Centre for Institutional Study, Research, and Training – wasn’t your typical…
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Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures
Discussion with Ferdiansyah Thajib & Hypatia Vourloumis on the forthcoming book Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands by Bima Satria Putra Putra’s book traces the histories of the Alifuru peoples – those who refused incorporation into the state formations of Ternate, Tidore, colonial empires, and the modern Indonesian nation-state.…
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A Studious Use
A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons Giovanni Marmont What if study was not about learning, improvement, accreditation? What if use was not about intentionality, function, ownership? A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities at play in practices of both study and use. It examines their potential and actual…
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Unsettled
Unsettled Erin Manning Explores what it means to be claimed, not just by blood, but by history, land, and the fragile web of human connection. To belong is never a simple matter. For Erin Manning, ancestry has always been more of an entanglement than a strict lineage: a collection of stories, fabulations, and echoes of…
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Feral Class
Untamed. Unheard. Unstoppable. For this episode with have a chat with Marc Garrett about his forthcoming book Feral Class. The book is Marc Garrett’s raw and resonant memoir of surviving – and creating – on the margins. It delves into the lived realities of working-class artists, charting Garrett’s journey from the edges of cultural production…
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Anarchy in Alifuru
Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands Bima Satria Putra In the sprawling seas of the Maluku Islands lies a forgotten history – not of kings and sultans, but of people who lived without them. Anarchy in Alifuru reclaims the stories of the stateless societies of eastern Indonesia, revealing a world…
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Feral Class
Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission Feral Class is Marc Garrett’s deeply personal and thought-provoking exploration of his early years, chronicling his journey as a working-class artist navigating a world that often rejects them. Through humorous, vivid storytelling and incisive critique, Garrett explores…
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States of Divergence
States of Divergence Sven Lütticken In States of Divergence, Sven Lütticken invites readers into an exploration of history as accelerating catastrophe – and of alternative, oppositional, divergent practices in life, art and revolutionary thought. Set against the backdrop of global crises, from climate change to pandemics, Lütticken dissects contemporary cultural and political practices that attempt to…
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Unlearning Routines of the Impossible
Unlearning Routines of the Impossible Edited by Janine Armin and Annette Krauss What are the struggles, entanglements, and joys of practicing unlearning in predominantly western contexts? Unlearning Routines of the Impossible responds to this question through revisiting the artistic research projects Sites for Unlearning, (co-)initiated by Annette Krauss. The sites are experimental gatherings where the…
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Unlearning Exercises
Unlearning Exercises. Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning Edited by Binna Choi, Annette Krauss, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Liz Allan Shares a set of collective unlearning exercises to make way for a culture of equality, difference and fairness in art organizations. Learning is often progress-oriented, institutionally driven, and focused on the accumulation of…
