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        Sternberg Press / The Contemporary Condition

        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.

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        The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary

        The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary

        The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary

        Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation

        by Kim West

        ISBN: 9781915609618

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 4, 2025

        An essay-length argument for the autonomy of art in the present.
        Challenging Institutionalization

        Challenging Institutionalization

        Challenging Institutionalization

        A Propositional Toolkit for Doing Supervision of Artistic and Practice-Based Research

        Edited by Maibritt Borgen, Jacob Lund, Henk Slager and Iris van der Tuin

        Foreword by Maria Hlavajova

        ISBN: 9781915609625

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 25, 2025

        Interrogating the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research.
        I Can’t Sleep

        I Can't Sleep

        I Can't Sleep

        by Lionel Ruffel

        ISBN: 9783956796036

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 1, 2022

        An attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, with references to Jonathan Crary, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin.
        Whose Time Is It?

        Whose Time Is It?

        Whose Time Is It?

        Asocial Robots, Syncholonialism, and Artificial Chronological Intelligence

        by Stamatia Portanova

        ISBN: 9783956796081

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 1, 2022

        Following the “emerging life adventures and experiences” of Sophia, a robot animated by blockchain and AI, to present a study in temporal automation.
        Co-existence of Times

        Co-existence of Times

        Co-existence of Times

        A Conversation with John Akomfrah

        by Johanne Løgstrup

        ISBN: 9783956795718

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        A conversation with filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, exploring how his work with montage can be understood to articulate contemporaneity in sensuous ways.
        Exhibition-ism

        Exhibition-ism

        Exhibition-ism

        Temporal Togetherness

        by Mieke Bal

        ISBN: 9783956795725

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        Consideration of recent shows of Mieke Bal's video work, framed by observations on contemporary sculpture's response to classics of the form.
        The Last Resident

        The Last Resident

        The Last Resident

        Edited by Verina Gfader

        ISBN: 9783956794681

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 17, 2019

        A bunch of residents cruising the seas of nine temporary realities.
        Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination

        Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination

        Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination

        by Jacob Lund

        ISBN: 9783956794872

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 17, 2019

        An argument for “the contemporary contemporary” as the point of departure for any anachronic relationship with time today.
        “100 Years of Now” and the Temporality of Curatorial Research

        “100 Years of Now” and the Temporality of Curatorial Research

        “100 Years of Now” and the Temporality of Curatorial Research

        by Olga von Schubert

        ISBN: 9783956793998

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: March 26, 2019

        Curatorial projects are increasingly understood as research projects with extended time frames and complex interactions across diverse sectors. This book presents “100 Years of Now,” a research...
        Hegel after Occupy

        Hegel after Occupy

        Hegel after Occupy

        by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

        ISBN: 9783956793905

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: October 2, 2018

        Hegel after Occupy is a Western Marxist analysis of different attempts to understand the present historical situation and the way theories of postmodernity, globalization, and contemporaneity implicitly...
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