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        Lalitha Lajmi

        Lalitha Lajmi

        Lalitha Lajmi

        by Skye Arundhati-Thomas

        ISBN: 9781915609342

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: July 30, 2024

        The first published monograph on the late Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi and her captivating self-portraits.
        Magda Stawarska

        Magda Stawarska

        Magda Stawarska

        by Omar Kholeif

        Afterword by Lubaina Himid

        ISBN: 9781915609298

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: May 28, 2024

        A critical biography of artist Magda Stawarska via a series of journeys—from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar.
        Ines Doujak. Twisted Language

        Ines Doujak. Twisted Language

        Ines Doujak. Twisted Language

        Edited by Ines Doujak

        Foreword by How & for Whom/WHW What

        ISBN: 9781915609328

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: May 21, 2024

        A close examination of the realities of the current economic, microbiological, and ecological crises through political and aesthetic strategies.
        Things That Move

        Things That Move

        Things That Move

        A Hinterland in Architectural History

        by Tim Anstey

        ISBN: 9780262547505

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 16, 2024

        A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.
        Melancholy Wedgwood

        Melancholy Wedgwood

        Melancholy Wedgwood

        by Iris Moon

        ISBN: 9780262546348

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 23, 2024

        An experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity.
        The Visual World of Shadows

        The Visual World of Shadows

        The Visual World of Shadows

        by Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh

        ISBN: 9780262550840

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 26, 2023

        How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system.
        Subject Matter

        Subject Matter

        Subject Matter

        The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown

        by Aron Vinegar

        ISBN: 9780262546362

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 28, 2023

        A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.
        The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men

        The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men

        The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men

        by Catherine Lord

        ISBN: 9781949484106

        Publisher: no place press

        Pub Date: November 21, 2023

        An investigation of memory, both personal and national, that broadens the dialogue on colonialism, complicity, and cultural property.
        Pidginization as Curatorial Method

        Pidginization as Curatorial Method

        Pidginization as Curatorial Method

        Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating

        by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

        Edited by Steven Henry Madoff

        ISBN: 9781915609083

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2023

        A new vision for activist curatorial practice.
        Just in Time

        Just in Time

        Just in Time

        Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience

        by G. Gabrielle Starr

        ISBN: 9780262048040

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 6, 2023

        Literature and neuroscience come together to illuminate the human experience of beauty, which unfolds in time.
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