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        Helen Khal

        Helen Khal

        Helen Khal

        Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s

        Edited by Carla Chammas, Rachel Dedman and Omar Kholeif

        Foreword by Christine Tohmé

        ISBN: 9781915609212

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 6, 2024

        Forthcoming from the MIT Press
        The Monster Leviathan

        The Monster Leviathan

        The Monster Leviathan

        Anarchitecture

        by Aaron Betsky

        ISBN: 9780262546331

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 5, 2023

        Visionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture—or anarchitecture—through which we can imagine other and better worlds.
        Relational Aesthetics

        Relational Aesthetics

        Relational Aesthetics

        by Nicolas Bourriaud

        Foreword by Nicolas Bourriaud

        Translated by Denyse Beaulieu

        ISBN: 9783956795879

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: November 7, 2023

        A new translation, with a new foreword, of Nicolas Bourriaud's landmark 1998 work of art theory.
        Dis…Miss Gender?

        Dis…Miss Gender?

        Dis…Miss Gender?

        Edited by Anne Bray

        ISBN: 9780262546447

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 24, 2023

        A bold mix of photographs and short essays in which artists, writers, and theorists investigate and celebrate the rapidly evolving world of gender.
        Activism

        Activism

        Activism

        Edited by Afonso Ramos and Tom Snow

        ISBN: 9780262546560

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 24, 2023

        An edited collection that addresses the vital intersection of contemporary art and activism in this watershed cultural moment.
        Three Entries in the Form of Escape Diagrams

        Three Entries in the Form of Escape Diagrams

        Three Entries in the Form of Escape Diagrams

        An Instruction Manual for Contemporary Art (Undoing the Image 4)

        by Éric Alliez

        With Jean-Claude Bonne

        Translated by Robin Mackay

        ISBN: 9781913029975

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: October 10, 2023

        An "operating manual for contemporary art" that addresses the work of Daniel Buren, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Günter Brus.
        An Opera for Animals

        An Opera for Animals

        An Opera for Animals

        Edited by Cosmin Costinaş and Claire Shea

        ISBN: 9783956796418

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 26, 2023

        On the intersection of Western and Chinese opera, performance, power, colonialism, non-human pasts and futures, classical music, technology, and artificial intelligence.
        What to Let Go?

        What to Let Go?

        What to Let Go?

        Edited by Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero

        ISBN: 9783956796425

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 26, 2023

        What gets counted within the category of heritage, and who gets to do the counting?
        Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities

        Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities

        Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities

        by Rosi Braidotti

        Introduction by John May

        ISBN: 9783956796104

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 26, 2023

        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.
        Joar Nango

        Joar Nango

        Joar Nango

        Edited by Axel Wieder

        ISBN: 9783956796173

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 26, 2023

        The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.
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