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science
IN PRAISE OF SCIENCE
Curiosity, Understanding, and Progress
Sander Bais
A virtuoso introduction
to the field of science, In this engaging, lyrical book, physicist Sander Bais shows how science can
the most democratic of liberate us from our cultural straitjacket of prejudice and intolerance. We’re living
human endeavors. in a time in which technology is taken for granted, yet belief in such standard
scientific facts as evolution is actually decreasing. How is it possible for cell phones
March and Creationism to coexist? Science — fundamental, fact-based knowledge, not
7 1/2 x 6 3/4, 192 pp. the latest technological gadget — can give us the global and local perspectives
40 color illus., 14 black & white illus.
we need to make the world a better place. Bais argues that turning points in the
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history of science have been accompanied by similar milestones in social change,
deeply affecting our view of nature, our perception of the human condition, and
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our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
After a lively description of how curiosity trumps prejudice and pseudoscience
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in matters ranging from lightning rods to the transmission of HIV, Bais considers
what drives science and scientists, a quest that culminates in that miraculous
mixture of creativity and ingenuity found in the greatest scientists. He describes
what he calls the “circle of science” — the microcosm and the macrocosm as mir-
ror images — and demonstrates unity in a dazzling sequence of topics, including
the hierarchy of structures, the forces of nature, cosmological evolution, and the
challenge of complexity. Finally, Bais takes on the obstacles science encounters
in a world dominated by short-term political and economic interests. Science,
he says, needs to get its message out. Drawing on sources that range from
Charles Darwin and Karl Popper to Herbert Marcuse and Richard Feynman,
with In Praise of Science, Bais does just that.
Sander Bais is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of
Amsterdam and External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute.
He is the author of The Equations: Icons of Knowledge and Very
Special Relativity: An Illustrated Guide.
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environment/technology
GREENING THROUGH I T
Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability
Bill Tomlinson
How the tools of information
Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and technology can support
labyrinthine layers of complexity. In Greening through IT, Bill Tomlinson environmental sustainability
investigates how the tools and techniques of information technology (IT) can by tackling problems that
span broad scales of time,
help us tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. Tomlinson describes space, and complexity.
theoretical, technological, and social aspects of a growing interdisciplinary
approach to sustainability, “Green IT,” offering both a human-centered
May
framework for understanding Green IT systems and specific examples and 7 x 9, 216 pp.
case studies of Green IT in action. 19 illus.
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human understanding: it’s hard for us to grasp thousand-year projections of
global climatic disruption or our stake in melting icecaps thousands of miles
away. IT can bridge the gap between human scales of understanding and
environmental scales.
Tomlinson offers many examples of efforts toward sustainability supported
by IT — from fishermen in India who eliminated waste by coordinating their
activities with mobile phones to the installation of smart meters that optimize
electricity use in California households — and offers three detailed studies of
specific research projects that he and his colleagues have undertaken: EcoRaft,
an interactive museum exhibit to help children learn principles
of restoration ecology; Trackulous, a set of web-based tools
with which people can chart their own environmental behavior;
and GreenScanner, an online system that provides access to
environmental-impact reports about consumer products.
Taken together, these examples illustrate the significant
environmental benefits that innovations in information
technology can enable.
Bill Tomlinson is Associate Professor of Informatics at the University
of California, Irvine, and a Researcher at the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology.
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art/new media
GREEN LIGHT
Toward an Art of Evolution
George Gessert
How humans’ aesthetic perceptions
have shaped other life forms, from Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries:
racehorses to ornamental plants. flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are bred
for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art
April in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward
7 x 9, 192 pp. Steichen’s hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become a genre; artists
30 illus.
work with a variety of living things, including plants, animals, bacteria, slime
$24.95T/£18.95 cloth molds, and fungi. Many commentators have addressed the social and political
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concerns raised by making art out of living material. In Green Light, however,
A Leonardo Book George Gessert examines the role that aesthetic perception has played in bio art
and other interventions in evolution.
Gessert looks at a variety of life forms that humans have helped shape, focus-
ing on plants — the most widely domesticated form of life and the one that has
been crucial to his own work as an artist. We learn about Ongadori chickens,
bred to have tail feathers up to more than thirty feet long; pleasure gardens of
the Aztecs, cultivated for intoxicating fragrance; Darwin’s relationship to the
arts; the rise and fall of eugenics; the aesthetic standards promoted by national
plant societies; a daffodil that looks like a rose; and praise for weeds and wild-
flowers. Gessert surveys recent bio art and its accompanying philosophical prob-
lems, the “slow art” of plant breeding, and how to create new life that takes into
account what we know about ecology, aesthetics, and ourselves.
George Gessert is an artist whose work focuses on the overlap between art and genetics.
His exhibits often involve plants he has hybridized or documentation of breeding projects.
His writings have appeared in Leonardo, Art Papers, Design Issues, Massachusetts Review,
Hortus, Best American Essays 2007, Pushcart Prize XXX, and other publications.
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photography/environment
CLIMATE REFUGEES
Collectif Argos
introduction by Hubert Reeves
preface by Jean Jouzel Heartbreaking stories and pictures
document the phenomenon of
Our job is to tell stories we have heard and to bear witness to what we have seen. populations displaced by climate
The science was already there when we started in 2004, but we wanted to emphasize change—homes, neighborhoods,
livelihoods, and cultures lost.
the human dimension, especially for those most vulnerable.
— Guy-Pierre Chomette, Collectif Argos
We have all seen photographs of neighborhoods wrecked and abandoned after a April
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hurricane, of dry, cracked terrain that was once fertile farmland, of islands wiped 171 color illus.
out by a tsunami. But what happens to the people who live in these areas? $29.95T/£22.95 paper
According to the United Nations, some 150 million people will become climate 978-0-262-51439-2
refugees by 2050. The journalists and photographers of Collectif Argos have spent
four years seeking out the first wave of people displaced by the consequences of
climate change. Using the massive 2,500-page report of the Intergovernmental COLLECTIF ARGOS
Guy-Pierre Chomette
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as their guide, these photographers and writers Guillaume Collanges
pinpointed nine locales around the world in which global warming has had a Hélène David
measureable impact. In Climate Refugees, they take us to these places — from Jérômine Derigny
Cédric Faimali
the dust bowl that was once Lake Chad to the melting permafrost in Alaska — Donatien Garnier
offering a first-hand look in words and photographs at the devastating effects Eléonore Henry de Frahan
of rising global temperatures on the daily lives of ordinary people. Aude Raux
Laurent Weyl
Climate Refugees shows us damage wrought to homes and livelihoods by Jacques Windenberger
rapid warming near the Arctic; rising sea levels that threaten the island nations
of Tuvulu, the Maldives, and Halligen; farmers displaced by the desert’s advance
in Chad and China; floods that wash away life in Bangladesh; and Hurricane
Katrina evacuees in shelters far away from their New Orleans
neighborhoods. Added to the devastating environmental effect
of climate change is the immeasurable and irretrievable loss
of ethnic and cultural diversity that
occurs when vulnerable local cultures
disperse. It is this often forgotten
and tragic consequence of global
warming that Collectif Argos
painstakingly documents.
Created in 2001, Collectif Argos brings
together ten journalists — photographers
and writers — who share a commitment
to documenting the changes taking place
in the world — ecological, economic,
political, and cultural, subtle or
spectacular, global or local.
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environment/political science
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environment
TREADING SOFTLY
Paths to Ecological Order
Thomas Princen
How to imagine and then realize an
We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecologi- ecological order based on living
cal, consuming the planet’s resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it’s within our biophysical means.
hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy
credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that suport life? March
How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas 5 3/8 x 8, 224 pp.
Princen helps us imagine an alternative. We need, he says, a new normal, a new $22.95T/£16.95 cloth
ecological order that is actually economical with resources, that embraces limits, 978-0-262-01417-5
that sees sustainable living not as a “lifestyle” but as a long-term relationship with
the planet, a connection to fresh, free-flowing water, fertile soil, and healthy food.
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That economies must grow is a fundamental belief among economists,
THE LOGIC OF SUFFICIENCY
politicians, and journalists. But it is rampant material growth that has brought Thomas Princen
us to this precipice. Princen argues that it is time to build an economy that is 2005, 978-0-262-66190-4
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grounded in the way natural systems work; that operates as if we have just
the right amount of resources rather than endless frontiers. The goal is to live CONFRONTING CONSUMPTION
edited by Thomas Princen,
well by living well within the capacities of those resources. Society’s material Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca
foundations would be grounded in the biophysical, its practices based on 2002, 978-0-262-66128-7
satisfying work, self-reliance, and restraint rather than the purchasing of goods. $34.00S/£25.95 paper
Princen doesn’t offer a quick fix — there’s no list of easy ways
to save the planet to hang on the refrigerator. He gives us
instead a positive, realistic sense of the possible, with an abun-
dance of examples, concepts, and tools for imagining, then
realizing, how to live within our biophysical means.
Thomas Princen is Associate Professor of Natural Resources and
Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural
Resources and Environment. He is the author of The Logic of Sufficiency
(2005) and the coeditor of Confronting Consumption (2002), both pub-
lished by the MIT Press and both winners of the Harold and Margaret
Sprout Award for best book on international environmental affairs.
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art
PSYCHEDELIC
Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s
edited by David S. Rubin
The history of an aesthetic
sensibility that began with This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility.
Op Art and album covers; with In pop culture, that sensibility is associated with lava lamps, album covers, and
many stunning color images. “teashades,” but it first manifested itself in the extreme colors and kaleidoscopic
compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn’t die at the end
April of the 1960s; Psychedelic traces it through the day-glo colors of painters Peter Saul,
7 1/2 x 12, 140 pp. Alex Grey, and Kenny Scharf,
78 color illus.
the pill and hemp leaf paintings
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of Fred Tomaselli, the intensi-
fied palettes of Douglas
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San Antonio Museum of Art
Bourgeois and Sharon Ellis,
and mixed-media and new
media works by younger artists
EXHIBITION in the new millennium.
San Antonio Museum of Art Although the term
San Antonio, Texas
March 13–August 1, 2010 “psychedelic” was coined
to describe hallucinatory expe-
Memorial Art Gallery,
University of Rochester riences produced by drugs
Rochester, New York used psychotherapeutically, the
October 23, 2010–January 2, 2011 story these images tell is about
Telfair Museum of Art the influence of psychedelic
Savannah, Georgia culture on the art world — not
March 2–May, 2011
necessarily the influence of
drugs. As contemporary art
evolved into a diverse and plu-
ralistic discipline, the psyche-
delic evolved into a language of
color and light. In Psychedelic,
more than seventy-five vivid
color images chart this devel-
opment, exploring the art
chronologically, from early Op Art through recent work
using digital technology. The book, which accompanies
an exhibition organized by the San Antonio Museum of
Art, includes three essays that set the works in historical
and cultural context.
David S. Rubin is The Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary
Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
reflected and shaped popular perceptions of Hollywood and the city that
surrounds it. In Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles, Alexandra Schwartz views Ruscha’s April
groundbreaking early work as a window onto the radically shifting cultural 4 1/4 x 7, 336 pp.
74 illus.
and political landscape in which it was produced.
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Schwartz examines Ruscha’s diverse body of work, including paintings,
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drawings, prints, photographs, books, and films, and discusses his relationship
with other artists — including John Altoon, Ed Kienholz, Billy Al Bengston,
and Dennis Hopper, all of them associated with the famous Ferus Gallery — Also available
with whom he sparked the movement known as West Coast pop. She also LEAVE ANY INFORMATION
explores his links to the mainstream film industry, then evolving into the experi- AT THE SIGNAL
Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages
mental New Hollywood of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his association with Ed Ruscha
emerging discourse on L.A. architecture and urbanism; and his participation in edited by Alexandra Schwartz
the politics of the L.A. art world, where his presentation and self-marketing 2004, 978-0-262-68152-0
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reflected contemporary attitudes toward gender, race, and class.
Despite Ruscha’s fame, this is the first comprehensive critical consideration
of his art, and the first to consider it in the context of L.A.’s tumultuous
1960s and 1970s. It shows how Ruscha, borrowing from and
critiquing the methods and myths of Hollywood, forged a new
paradigm of the artist as a popular culture scribe — a soothsayer
for the entertainment age.
Alexandra Schwartz is the editor of a collection of Ed Ruscha’s writings,
Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages
(MIT Press, 2002) and the coeditor of Individuals: Women Artists in
the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art.
“Ed Ruscha’s brilliant work of the 1960s has finally been located
in relation to Los Angeles, the city from which it grew. . . . Tracing
Ruscha's relationships with figures like Dennis Hopper, Denise Scott
Brown, Walter Hopps, and Wallace Berman, Schwartz recovers
an interlocking set of hip, little-known subcultures. Important,
engaging, and eminently readable, with a light touch befitting its
elusive, deadpan subject.”
— Harry Cooper, Curator of Modern and
Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art
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art
SITUATION AESTHETICS
The Work of Michael Asher
Kirsi Peltomäki
The first book-length study of
this influential artist’s work, Michael Asher doesn’t make typical installations. Instead, he extracts his art
focusing on the participatory from the institutions in which it is shown, culling it from collections, histories,
role of the human subject rather or museums’ own walls. Since the late 1960s, Asher has been creating situations
than the art object.
that have not only taught us about the conditions and contexts of contemporary
art, but have worked to define it.
March In Situation Aesthetics, Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher’s practice by analyzing
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48 illus. the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants,
and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other
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978-0-262-01368-0 museum staff members). Drawing on art criticism, the reports of viewers and
participants in Asher’s projects, and the artist’s own archives, Peltomäki offers a
comprehensive account of Asher’s work over the past four decades. Because of
the intensely site-specific nature of Asher’s work, as well as the artist’s refusal to
reconstruct past works or mount retrospectives, many of the projects Peltomäki
discusses are described here for the first time.
Asher’s work has commonly been associated with minimalism, conceptual art,
and, most frequently, institutional critique. Peltomäki takes a different perspective,
focusing on the work’s social dimension. Because Asher’s installations typically
address the given context — the situation — of their exhibition directly and
exclusively, they cease to exist after the exhibitions end, leaving behind few
material traces. By emphasizing the social and psychological sites of art rather
than the production of autonomous art objects, Peltomäki argues, Asher
constructs experientially complex
situations that profoundly affect
those who encounter them, bringing
about both personal and institutional
transformation.
Kirsi Peltomäki is Assistant Professor of
Art History at Oregon State University.
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art
RICHARD HAMILTON
edited by Hal Foster with Alexander Bacon
Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in Essays and articles
twentieth-century art. An original member of the legendary Independent Group about Richard Hamilton, “the
in London in the 1950s, Hamilton organized or participated in groundbreaking intellectual father of Pop art.“
exhibitions associated with the group — in particular This Is Tomorrow (1956),
for which his celebrated collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, March
so appealing?, crystallizing the postwar world of consumer capitalism, was made. 6 x 9, 184 pp.
51 illus.
With his colleagues in the Independent Group, Hamilton promoted the artistic
investigation of popular culture, undertaking this analysis in paintings, prints, $17.95T/£13.95 paper
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and texts, thus setting the stage for Pop art — indeed, he is often called the
intellectual father of Pop. At the same time, Hamilton was crucial to the postwar $35.00S/£25.95 cloth
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reception of Marcel Duchamp, transcribing his notes for The Large Glass and
producing a reconstruction of this epochal piece for the first Duchamp retrospec- October Files
tive in Britain, in 1966. Over the years Hamilton has continued to develop his
work, in a variety of media, on subjects
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ranging from the Rolling Stones to the GERHARD RICHTER
Troubles in Northern Ireland, from edited by
new commodities and technologies to Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
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the oldest genres in Western painting. $17.95T/£13.95 paper
True to the mission of the October
GABRIEL OROZCO
Files series, this volume collects the edited by Yve-Alain Bois
most telling essays on Hamilton 2009, 978-0-262-51301-2
(including several hard-to-find texts $18.95T/£14.95 paper
by the artist), spanning the entire
range of his extraordinary career.
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin ’17 Professor
of Art and Archaeology at Princeton
University. He is the author of Compulsive
Beauty (1993), The Return of the Real:
Art and Theory at the End of the Century
(1996), and Prosthetic Gods (2004), all
published by the MIT Press, and other
books. Alexander Bacon is a PhD candidate
at Princeton University.
CONTENTS
Michael Craig-Martin Richard Hamilton in Conversation with Michael Craig-Martin (1990)
David Mellor The Pleasures and Sorrows of Modernity (1992)
Greil Marcus The Vortex of Gracious Living (2007)
Hal Foster Notes on the First Pop Age (2003)
Richard Hamilton Urbane Image (1962/82)
Stephen Bann Exteriors/Landscapes (1990)
Richard Hamilton An Inside View (1990)
Mark Francis Grand New Artificer (1988)
Sarat Maharaj “A Liquid Elemental Scattering”: Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton (1992)
Richard Hamilton Products (2003)
Richard Hamilton Concept/Technology>Artwork (1989)
Hal Foster Citizen Hamilton (2008)
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art
HALL OF MIRRORS
Roy Lichtenstein and the Face of Painting in the 1960s
Graham Bader
A sustained study of Lichtenstein’s
pop oeuvre, offering new readings In Hall of Mirrors, Graham Bader traces the development of Roy Lichtenstein’s
of such canonical works as Look art into, through, and beyond his classic pop oeuvre of the 1960s. Bader charts
Mickey and Happy Tears. the trajectory of Lichtenstein’s practice from his student days in the late 1940s to
his mirror paintings of the 1970s, offering new readings of such canonical paint-
March ings as Look Mickey and Girl with Ball as well as examinations of lesser-known
7 x 9, 296 pp. works across a range of media. Bader’s analysis goes beyond the standard critical
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view of pop as a reaction to the high-culture pieties of abstract expressionism.
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Instead, Bader sees Lichtenstein’s work as motivated by the forces of “unoriginal
originality” — Lichtenstein’s discovery that he could make art by “borrowing”
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from other images — and “disembodied bodies” — his use of flattened and
schematic forms to reinvigorate figurative painting. For example, Bader argues
Also available that 1961’s Look Mickey, Lichtenstein’s inaugural pop work, established a template
ROY LICHTENSTEIN for the tension between embodiment and disembodiment that animates much of
edited by Graham Bader his 1960s work: between an evacuation of sensory experience, on the one hand,
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and a repeated focus on emphatic bodily acts (squeezing, kissing, crying, etc.)
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October Files on the other. A similar dialectical friction exists between Lichtenstein’s process
and product: consistently hand-painted canvases that
increasingly feign the look of industrial production.
Hall of Mirrors moves chronologically, beginning
with Lichtenstein’s studies at Ohio State University
and late-’50s moves toward pop, through his
seminal canvases of the early 1960s, to his late-’60s
experiments across sculpture, painting, installation,
and film. The book ends with an examination of
Lichtenstein’s Mirror paintings of 1969–72. These
little-discussed works, Bader argues, exemplify
Lichtenstein’s late-’60s shift of focus to the embodied
experience of his own viewers — and thus culminate
and conclude his practice of the decade.
Graham Bader is Mellon Assistant Professor of Art History at
Rice University. He is the editor of the October Files volume
Roy Lichtenstein (MIT Press, 2009).
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PERPETUAL INVENTORY
Rosalind E. Krauss
The job of an art critic is to take perpetual inventory, constantly revising her In essays that span three decades,
ideas about the direction of contemporary art and the significance of the work one of contemporary art’s most
she writes about. In these essays, which span three decades of assessment and esteemed critics celebrates
reassessment, Rosalind Krauss considers what she has come to call the “post- artists who have persevered
in the service of a medium.
medium condition” — the abandonment by contemporary art of the modernist
emphasis on the medium as the source of artistic significance. Jean-François
Lyotard argued that the postmodern condition is characterized by the end of a March
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art a similar farewell to coherence. The master narrative of contemporary art
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cific medium in order to juxtapose image and written text in the same work. For
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Krauss, this spells the end of serious art, and she devotes much of Perpetual
Inventory to “wrest[ling] new media to the mat of specificity.”
Krauss also writes about artists who are reinventing the medium, artists Also available
who persevere in the service of a nontraditional medium — “strange new THE ORIGINALITY OF THE
apparatuses” often adopted from commercial culture — among them Ed Ruscha, AVANT-GARDE AND OTHER
MODERNIST MYTHS
Christian Marclay, William Kentridge, and James Coleman. Rosalind E. Krauss
Krauss’s essays work against the grain of the received ideas of contemporary 1986, 978-0-262-61046-9
criticism; she considers the postmedium condition a “monstrous myth.” With $34.00T/£25.95 paper
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art/museum studies
CURATING CONSCIOUSNESS
Mysticism and the Modern Museum
Marcia Brennan
How prominent curator and
author James Johnson Sweeney Artists have often taken rational, material existence as a starting point for
cast the modern museum as a engagement with metaphysics and mysticism, with the paradoxes of visibility
secular temple of art. and invisibility. But no book until now has consistently traced these compelling
themes in modernist curatorial practices. In Curating Consciousness, Marcia
March Brennan gives voice to this unacknowledged story by focusing on one of its
7 x 9, 304 pp. main protagonists, James Johnson Sweeney (1900 –1986). As a colleague of
8 color plates,
60 black & white illus. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1940s and director of
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the Guggenheim Museum in the 1950s and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
978-0-262-01378-9 in the 1960s, Sweeney provocatively engaged motifs of mysticism in order to cast
the modern museum as a secular temple of art. Sweeney believed that artworks
could engender visionary perspectives and induce alternative modes of conscious-
Also available ness in their viewers; his career can be seen as an exercise in curating modernist
PAINTING GENDER, CONSTRUCTING consciousness itself.
THEORY
The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and Brennan describes how these motifs informed Sweeney’s curatorial and tex-
American Formalist Aesthetics tual engagements with specific artists and projects, including Marcel Duchamp’s
Marcia Brennan intricately androgynous constructions, Alberto Burri’s images of hermetic
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$28.00T/£20.95 paper alchemy and blood miracles, Pierre Soulages’s creative transmutations of sacred
stones into gestural abstract paintings, Jean Tinguely’s apocalyptic yet playful
MODERNISM’S
MASCULINE SUBJECTS kinetic experiments, and Eduardo Chillida’s translations of theology and
Matisse, the New York School, and philosophy into sculpted fields of sparkling light.
Post-Painterly Abstraction
Marcia Brennan Marcia Brennan is Associate Professor of
2006, 978-0-262-52468-1 Art History at Rice University. She is the
$14.95T/£11.95 paper author of Painting Gender, Constructing
Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and
American Formalist Aesthetics (2002)
and Modernism’s Masculine Subjects:
Matisse, the New York School, and
Post-Painterly Abstraction (2006),
both published by the MIT Press.
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art/new media/museum studies
RETHINKING CURATING
Art after New Media
Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook
Redefining curatorial practice
foreword by Steve Dietz
for those working with
As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art — new kinds of art.
but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation
and is often about process rather than objects. New media artworks, difficult to March
classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by 7 x 9, 368 pp.
medium, geography, and chronology, present the curator with novel challenges 68 illus.
involving interpretation, exhibition, and dissemination. This book views these $34.95T/£25.95 cloth
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challenges as opportunities to rethink curatorial practice. It helps curators of new
media art develop a set of flexible tools for working in this fast-moving field, and A Leonardo Book
it offers useful lessons from curators and artists for those working in such other
areas of art as distributive and participatory systems.
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Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art,
WHITE HEAT COLD LOGIC
including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates British Computer Art 1960–1980
them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere,
Nicholas Lambert, and
engaged art, and performance art. The authors, both of whom have extensive
Catherine Mason
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illustrate how the roles of curators and audiences can be redefined in light of $44.95T/£33.95 cloth
new media art’s characteristics. They discuss modes of curating, from the famil- TACTICAL BIOPOLITICS
iar default mode of the museum, through parallels with publishing, broadcast- Art, Activism, and Technoscience
edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita
ing, festivals, and labs, to more recent hybrid ways of working online and off, Philip
including collaboration and social networking. Rethinking Curating offers 2008, 978-0-262-04249-9
curators a route through the hype around platforms and autonomous zones $40.00S/£29.95 cloth
by following the lead of current artists’ practice.
Beryl Graham, an educator, artist, arts organizer, and
curator, is currently Professor of New Media Art at
the University of Sunderland and coeditor of the
CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss)
Web site. Sarah Cook, a research fellow and cofounder
of CRUMB, has curated exhibitions of new media art
internationally.
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art
CHANCE
edited by Margaret Iversen
Why chance remains a key strategy
The chance situation or random event — whether as a strategy or as a subject of
in artists’ investigations into the investigation — has been central to many artists’ practices across a multiplicity
contemporary world. of forms, including expressionism, automatism, the readymade, collage, surrealist
and conceptual photography, fluxus event scores, film, audio and video, per-
March formance, and participatory artworks. But why — a century after Dada and
6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp. Surrealism’s first systematic enquiries — does chance remain a key strategy in
$24.95T paper artists’ investigations into the contemporary world?
978-0-262-51392-0 The writings in this anthology examine the gap between intention and
Documents of Contemporary outcome, showing it to be crucial to the meaning of chance in art. The book
Art series provides a new critical context for chance procedures in art since 1900 and aims
Copublished with to answer such questions as why artists deliberately set up such a gap in their
Whitechapel Gallery, London practice; what new possibilities this suggests; and why the viewer finds the art
Not for sale in the United Kingdom so engaging.
or Europe
Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History
and Theory at the University of Essex.
Her books include Alois Riegl: Art History
Also available in this series and Theory and Beyond Pleasure: Freud,
SITUATION Lacan, Barthes.
edited by Claire Doherty
2009, 978-0-262-51305-0
$24.95T paper
UTOPIAS
edited by Richard Noble
2009, 978-0-262-64069-5
$24.95T paper
BEAUTY
edited by Dave Beech
2009, 978-0-262-51238-1
$24.95T paper
APPROPRIATION
edited by David Evans
2009, 978-0-262-55070-3
$24.95T paper
COLOUR
edited by David Batchelor
2008, 978-0-262-52481-0
$24.95T paper
THE EVERYDAY
edited by Stephen
Johnstone
2008, 978-0-262-60074-3 ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE
$24.95T paper Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alÿs, William Anastasi, John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Mark Boyle,
THE ARTIST’S JOKE George Brecht, Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Marcel Duchamp,
edited by Jennifer Higgie Brian Eno, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Huang Yong Ping, Douglas Huebler, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles,
2007, 978-0-262-58274-2 Jiri Kovanda, Jorge Macchi, Christian Marclay, Cildo Meireles, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono,
$24.95T paper Gabriel Orozco, Cornelia Parker, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Daniel Spoerri, Wolfgang Tillmans,
Keith Tyson, Jennifer West, Ceryth Wyn Evans, La Monte Young
WRITERS INCLUDE
Paul Auster, Jacquelynn Baas, Georges Bataille, Daniel Birnbaum, Claire Bishop, Guy Brett,
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Stanley Cavell, Lynne Cooke, Fei Dawei, Gilles Deleuze, Anna Dezeuze,
Russell Ferguson, Branden W. Joseph, Siegfried Kracauer, Jacques Lacan, Susan Laxton, Sarat Maharaj,
Midori Matsui, John Miller, Alexandra Munroe, Gabriel Pérez Barreiro, Jasia Reichardt, Julia Robinson,
Eric L. Santner, Sarah Valdez, Katharina Vossenkuhl
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art
THE SUBLIME
edited by Simon Morley
In the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seem to The continuing relevance and
eclipse nature, the individual, and society, what might be the characteristics constant reinvention of the
of a contemporary sublime? If there is any consensus, it is in the idea that the sublime — the transcendent,
sublime represents a testing of limits to the point at which fixities begin to the awe-inspiring, the
unpresentable — in art
fragment. This anthology examines how contemporary artists and theorists and culture since 1945.
explore ideas of the sublime, in relation to the unpresentable, transcendence,
terror, nature, technology, the uncanny, and altered states.
March
Providing a philosophical and cultural context for discourse around the 6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp.
sublime in recent art, the book surveys the diverse and sometimes conflicting
$24.95T paper
interpretations of the term as it has evolved from the writings of Longinus, 978-0-262-51391-3
Burke, and Kant to present-day writers and artists. The sublime underlies
Documents of Contemporary
the nobility of Classicism, the awe of Romantic nature, and the terror of the Art series
Gothic. In the last half-century, the sublime has haunted postwar abstraction,
Copublished with Whitechapel
returned from the repression of Gallery, London
theoretical formalism, and has Not for sale in the
become a key term in critical United Kingdom or Europe
discussions of human otherness
and posthuman realms of nature
and technology. Also available in this series
THE GOTHIC
Simon Morley is a British artist and edited by Gilda Williams
art historian who has contributed to 2007, 978-0-262-73186-7
international art journals including $24.95T paper
Art Monthly, Untitled, Contemporary
Visual Art, Tate Etc. and Tema Celeste. THE CINEMATIC
A Lecturer in Painting at Winchester edited by David Campany
School of Art, England, he is the 2007, 978-0-262-53288-4
author of Writing on the Wall: $24.95T paper
Word and Image in Modern Art.
DESIGN AND ART
edited by Alex Coles
2007, 978-0-262-53289-1
$24.95T paper
PARTICIPATION
edited by Claire Bishop
2006, 978-0-262-52464-3
$24.95T paper
THE ARCHIVE
edited by Charles Merewether
2006, 978-0-262-63338-3
$24.95T paper
WRITERS INCLUDE
Marco Belpoliti, John Berger, Paul Crowther, Jacques Derrida, Okwui Enwezor, Jean Fisher,
Barbara Claire Freeman, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Doreet LeVitte-Harten, Eleanor Hartney,
Lynn M. Herbert, Luce Irigaray, Fredric Jameson, Lee Joon, Julia Kristeva,
Jean-François Lyotard, Thomas McEvilley, Vijay Mishra, David Morgan, Jean-Luc Nancy,
Jacques Rancière, Gene Ray, Robert Rosenblum, Philip Shaw, Paul Virilio,
Marina Warner, Thomas Weiskel, Slavoj Žižek
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architecture
BACK IN PRINT
A SCIENTIFIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aldo Rossi
Available again, a lyrical memoir translated by Lawrence Venuti
by one of the major figures of
postmodernist architecture; with
postscript by Vincent Scully
drawings of architectural projects This revealing memoir by Aldo Rossi (1937–1997), one of the most visible and
prepared especially for the book. controversial figures ever on the international architecture scene, intermingles
discussions of Rossi’s architectural projects — including the major literary and
March artistic influences on his work — with his personal history. Drawn from note-
8 3/4 x 10, 128 pp. books Rossi kept beginning in 1971, these ruminations and reflections range
35 illus.
from his obsession with theater to his concept of architecture as ritual. The book
$19.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51438-5
originally appeared as one of the landmark titles in the MIT Press’s Oppositions
Books series, but has been out of print for many years. This newly issued paper-
Oppositions Books series
back reprint includes illustrations — photographs, evocative images, and a set
of drawings of Rossi’s major architectural projects prepared particularly for this
Also available publication — selected by the author himself to augment the text.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and architecture theorist and the author of The
Aldo Rossi Architecture of the City (MIT Press, 1984) and other books. He was awarded the Pritzker
1984, 978-0-262-68043-1 Architecture Prize in 1990.
$29.00T/£21.95 paper
“As nostalgia has swept the architectural community in recent years, one of the most
Proustian design sensibilities to emerge has been that of Italian architect Aldo Rossi.
The enfant terrible of Italy’s 1960s Tendenza group, which fulminated against the
modern movement, Rossi published influential polemics and kept an equally eloquent
personal record in the form of notebooks, which MIT has published as the handsome
A Scientific Autobiography. . . . His own reminiscences — convents and castles,
the emotional pull of holy statuary, Melville’s dramatics, an adolescent’s fear of death,
a young artist’s ways with life — fill his lyrical, erudite notebooks.”
— Portfolio
“A document of architectural imagination rather than a merely
autobiographical or abstractly theoretical text. . . . Rossi allows his
thoughts to roam freely from childhood memories to philosophical
observations about architecture tout court. . . . His own projects
attempt, and his writings explain, the creation of a magic triangle
whose sides are symbolic of life, death, and illusion.”
— Kurt Forster, architectural historian
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architecture
PERSPECTA 42
The Real
The Yale Architectural Journal
Amid the tricks and trompe l’oeils
edited by Matthew Roman and Tal Schori of contemporary practices,
It is often suggested that architecture is more “real” than the other arts, more architecture is now, more than
ever, in pursuit of the real.
grounded and definitive. Yet even the most fundamental and concrete elements
of architecture are often designed to conceal. This issue of Perspecta — the oldest
and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America — April
9 x 12, 176 pp.
embraces the paradoxical nature of the real, presenting it as a lens that magnifies
100 color illus.,
the strategies and tactics of architecture, past, present, and future. How does 100 black & white illus.
architecture create real effects, change our built environment, and respond to $25.00T/£18.95 paper
crises? What are the tricks and trompe l’oeils of contemporary practice? Amid 978-0-262-51393-7
fake Europes, shape-shifting materials, and underwater asylums, Perspecta 42
navigates architecture’s disciplinary boundaries to locate the real in the most
unlikely of places. CONTRIBUTORS
Michelle Addington, Lucia Allais,
The real has been central to our understanding of architecture for the last Alejandro Aravena, Mario Ballesteros,
hundred years, even if the discussion has been couched in other terms. While BIG, Andrew Blauvelt,
architecture anxiously situates itself between building and discourse, it never Keller Easterling, Olafur Eliasson and
Kurt Forster, Hal Foster, Lorens Holm,
fully capitulates to either side. Through historical inquiry, theoretical writing, Jiang Jun, L.E.FT., Armin Linke,
and contemporary projects, Perspecta 42 asserts that now, more than ever, archi- Metahaven, Spyros Papapetros,
tecture is in search of the real. Emmanuel Petit, Antoine Picon,
Bill Rankin, Damon Rich,
The issue revolves around three encounters with the real. First, the physical: Francois Roche, Matthew Stadler,
texts, projects, and conversations that relate to issues of material properties and Albena Yaneva, Yoon+Howeler,
our bodily surroundings — thoughts on such topics as sensory environments, Andrew Zago, Mirko Zardini
smart materials, and the floor as a landscape of logistics. Second, authenticity:
explorations of representation and hybrid realities, including the digital and
the surreal. And, finally, institutional failures and
man-made or natural crises: considerations of war,
the current economic calamity, and racial politics.
Matthew Roman and Tal Schori are practicing designers and
graduates of the Yale School of Architecture.
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history of technology/science
A VAST MACHINE
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
Paul N. Edwards
The science behind global warming,
and its history: how scientists Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific
learned to understand the case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they
atmosphere, to measure it, warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine,
to trace its past, and to model
its future. Paul Edwards has news for these doubters: without models, there are no data.
Today, no collection of signals or observations — even from satellites, which
can “see” the whole planet with a single instrument — becomes global in time
April
6 x 9, 528 pp. and space without passing through a series of data models. Everything we know
74 illus. about the world’s climate we know through models. Edwards offers an engaging
$32.95T/£24.95 cloth and innovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere —
978-0-262-01392-5 to measure it, trace its past, and model its future.
Edwards argues that all our knowledge about climate change comes from
three kinds of computer models: simulation models of weather and climate;
Also available
reanalysis models, which recreate climate history from historical weather
THE CLOSED WORLD
Computers and the Politics of data; and data models, used to combine and adjust measurements from many
Discourse in Cold War America different sources. Meteorology creates knowledge through an infrastructure
Paul N. Edwards (weather stations and other data platforms) that covers the whole world, making
1997, 978-0-262-55028-4
$24.95T/£18.95 paper global data. This infrastructure generates information so vast in quantity and
so diverse in quality and form that it can be understood only by computer
CHANGING THE ATMOSPHERE
Expert Knowledge and analysis — making data global. Edwards describes the science behind the
Environmental Governance scientific consensus on climate change, arguing that over the years data and
edited by Clark Miller and models have converged to create a stable, reliable, and trustworthy basis for
Paul N. Edwards
2001, 978-0-262-63219-5 the reality of global warming.
$32.00S/£23.95 paper
Paul N. Edwards is Associate Professor in
the School of Information at the University
of Michigan. He is the author of The Closed
World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse
in Cold War America (1996) and a coeditor
(with Clark Miller) of Changing the Atmosphere:
Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
(2001), both published by the MIT Press.
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current affairs/health care
expert Roger Battistella argues that the conventional wisdom that dominates
health policy debates is out of date. Battistella takes on popular misconceptions March
about the advantages of single-payer plans, the role of the market, and other 6 x 9, 160 pp.
health policy issues and outlines a pragmatic new approach. $21.95T/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-01407-6
Few would disagree that the current system is broken. Employer-supplied
health insurance no longer works; it imposes a heavy burden on American
companies when they compete against international firms and creates insecurity
and instability for American workers. But, Battistella asserts provocatively, a
government takeover of health insurance patterned after Medicare and Medicaid
won’t work either. With a battered economy and an aging population, the
country simply can’t afford it. Battistella argues that contrary to popular belief,
single-payer coverage will not lower health spending but would encourage
overconsumption and drive costs up. The most efficient and affordable way
to reform health care, Battistella contends, is for consumers to take ownership
of it. If consumers were responsible for buying their own health insurance (as
they are for buying their own car and home insurance), he argues, they’d look
for value and demand greater price and quality transparency from providers.
Health insurance would be more like other forms of insurance and focus on
major expenses, with routine care paid for out of pocket.
The economic shibboleth that the principles of market
competition don’t apply to health care is nonsense, Battistella
says. We won’t achieve real health care reform until policy
makers adjust to this reality and adopt a more pragmatic view.
Roger M. Battistella is Emeritus Professor of Health Policy and
Management in the Sloan Graduate Program in Health Administration
at Cornell University.
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current affairs/political science economics/policy
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978-0-262-04236-9 978-0-262-13473-6 978-0-262-04239-0 978-0-262-02615-4 978-0-262-19567-6
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Boston Review Books are accessible, short books that take ideas seriously. They are animated by hope,
committed to equality, and convinced that the imagination eludes political categories. The editors aim
to establish a public space in which people can loosen the hold of conventional preconceptions and start
to reason together across the lines others are so busily drawing.
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economics/political science
Semiotext(e)’s Intervention series offers polemical texts by intellectual agitators. Short, engaged,
and highly focused manifestos, essays, and critiques, these palm-sized salvos address a variety of
political and cultural topics but share a passion for provocation, and allow for more immediate
excursions in Semiotext(e)’s ongoing mission of intellectual activism.
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political science
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philosophy
A THOUSAND MACHINES
A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement
Gerald Raunig
The machine as a social movement
translated by Aileen Derieg
of today’s “precariat”—those whose
labor and lives are precarious. In this “concise philosophy of the machine,” Gerald Raunig provides a historical
and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French
March philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze: the machine, not as a technical
4 1/2 x 7, 128 pp. device and apparatus, but as a social composition and concatenation. This con-
$12.95T/£9.95 paper ception of the machine as an arrangement of technical, bodily, intellectual, and
978-1-58435-085-9 social components subverts the opposition between man and machine, organism
Intervention series and mechanism, individual and community. Drawing from an unusual range of
Distributed for Semiotext(e) films, literature, and performance — from the role of bicycles in Flann O’Brien’s
fiction to Vittorio de Sica’s Neorealist film The Bicycle Thieves, and from Karl
Marx’s “Fragment on Machines” to the deus ex machina of Greek drama —
Also available from Semotext(e) Raunig arrives at an enhanced conception of the machine as a social movement,
ART AND REVOLUTION finding its most apt and concrete manifestation in the Euromayday movement,
Transversal Activism in the
Long Twentieth Century
which since 2001 has become a transnational activist and discursive practice
Gerald Raunig focused upon the precarious nature of labor and lives.
2007, 978-1-58435-046-0
$17.95T/£13.95 paper Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist who lives in Vienna. He is the author of
Art and Revolution (Semiotext(e), 2007).
“It is to Gerald Raunig’s great credit that his essay reintroduces the
concept of the machine as defined by Deleuze and Guattari; he
examines it against the background of Marxist tradition, which
has been articulated most innovatively in post-operaism. His work
shows the possible intersections and continuities, but also points to
discontinuities between these two theories which have evolved at
markedly different periods.”
— Maurizio Lazzarato
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cultural studies/queer theory
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fiction
COMA
Pierre Guyotat
translated by Noura Wedell
A poetic exploration of trauma and
renewal from the last avant-garde Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverberates and feels and throbs all over, it
visionary of the twentieth century.
begins to circumscribe my body along with my self, and my body gives it shape in turn:
the “joy” of living, of experiencing, of already foreseeing dismembers it, this entire
April body explodes, neurons rush toward what attracts them, zones of sensation break off
6 x 9, 192 pp.
almost in blocks that come to rest at the four corners of the landscape, at the four
1 color illus, 8 black & white illus.
corners of Creation.
$17.95T/£13.95 paper
978-1-58435-089-7
— from Coma
Native Agents series The novelist and playwright Pierre Guyotat has been called the last great avant-
Distributed for Semiotext(e) garde visionary of the twentieth century, and the near-cult status of his work —
because of its extreme linguistic innovation and its provocative violence — has
made him one of the most influential of French writers today. He has been
hailed as the true literary heir to Lautréamont and Arthur Rimbaud, and his
“inhuman” works have been mentioned in the same breath as those by Georges
Bataille and Antonin Artaud.
Winner of the 2006 prix Décembre, Coma is the deeply moving, vivid por-
trayal of the artistic and spiritual crisis that wracked Guyotat in the 1980s when
he reached the physical limits of his search for a new language,
entered a mental clinic, and fell into a coma brought on by
self-imposed starvation. A poetic, cruelly lucid account, Coma
links Guyotat’s illness and loss of subjectivity to a broader
concern for the slow, progressive regeneration of humanity.
Written in what the author himself has called a “normalized
writing,” this book visits a lifetime of moments that have in
common the force of amazement, brilliance, and a flash of
life. Grounded in experiences from the author’s childhood
and his family’s role in the French Resistance, Coma is a tale
of initiation that provides an invaluable key to interpreting
Guyotat’s work, past and future.
Pierre Guyotat (born in 1940) has been a source of French literary
scandal since the 1967 publication of Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers.
The French government banned his novel Eden Eden Eden from being
publicized, advertised on posters, or sold to anyone under the age
of 18, from the time of its publication in 1970 until 1981.
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economics/political science
CONTENTS
Sandro Mezzadra Introduction
Christian Marazzi The Violence of Financial Capitalism
Andrea Fumagalli The Global Economic Crisis and Socioeconomic Governance
Carlo Vercellone The Crisis of the Law of Value and the Becoming-Rent of Profit
Stefano Lucarelli Financialization as Biopower
Federico Chicchi On the Threshold of Capital, at the Thresholds of the Common
Tiziana Terranova New Economy, Financialization, and Social Production in the Web 2.0
Bernard Paulré Cognitive Capitalism and the Financialization of Economic Systems
Karl Heinz Roth Global Crisis — Global Proletarianization — Counter-perspectives
UniNomade Nothing Will Ever Be The Same
Antonio Negri A Reflection on Income in the “Great Crisis” of 2007 and Beyond
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ZONE BOOKS
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ZONE BOOKS
ANACHRONIC RENAISSANCE
Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood
In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a Examining the complex and
subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. layered temporalities
Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of Renaissance images
of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition and artifacts.
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ZONE BOOKS/NOW IN PAPER
SECRETS OF WOMEN
Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
Katharine Park
Women’s bodies and the study of
anatomy in Italy between the late Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began
thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth to devote increasing attention to what they called “women’s secrets,” by which
centuries. they meant female sexuality and generation. At the same time, Italian physicians
and surgeons began to open human bodies in order to study their functions and
March the illnesses that afflicted them, culminating in the great illustrated anatomical
6 x 9, 419 pp. treatise of Andreas Vesalius in 1543. In Secrets of Women, Katharine Park traces
62 illus.
these two closely related developments through a series of case studies of women
$22.95T/£16.95 paper
978-1-890951-68-9
whose bodies were dissected after their deaths: an abbess, a lactating virgin,
several patrician wives and mothers, and an executed criminal.
cloth 2006 Secrets of Women explodes the myth that medieval religious prohibitions
978-1-890951-67-2 hindered the practice of human dissection in medieval and Renaissance Italy,
Distributed for Zone Books arguing that female bodies, real and imagined, played a central role in the
history of anatomy during that time. The opened corpses of holy women
Winner of the History of Science
Rossiter Prize, 2007, and the
revealed sacred objects, while the opened corpses of wives and mothers yielded
American Association for the History crucial information about where babies came from and about the forces that
of Medicine Welch Medal, 2009 shaped their vulnerable flesh. In the process, what male writers knew as the
“secrets of women” came to symbolize the most difficult challenges posed by
Also available from Zone Books
human bodies — challenges that dissection promised to overcome. Park’s study
WONDERS AND THE ORDER OF of women’s bodies and men’s attempts to know them — and through these
NATURE, 1150–1750 efforts to know their own — demonstrates the centrality of gender to the
Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park development of early modern anatomy.
2001, 978-0-942299-91-5
$29.95T/£22.95 paper Katharine Park is Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard
University. Her book Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 (Zone Books, 1998),
coauthored with Lorraine Daston, won the Pfizer Prize for the best book in the history
of science.
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AFTERALL BOOKS
art
MARCEL DUCHAMP
Étant donnés
Julian Jason Haladyn
Duchamp’s famous last artwork,
Following Marcel Duchamp’s death in 1968, the Philadelphia Museum of Art seen not as a summation of
stunned the art world by unveiling a project on which he had been working his work but as an invitation
secretly for twenty years, long after he had supposedly given up art for chess. to endless interpretation.
interpretation and reinterpretation. Duchamp’s engagement with his legacy Distributed for Afterall Books
(by orchestrating first the purchase of his work and then the donation of those
purchases to the museum) is a significant historical development in the critical
Also available in this series
relationship between artists and the institution of art — a relationship that
MICHAEL SNOW
would later be further explored by such artists as Andrea Fraser and Michael Wavelength
Asher. Additionally, Haladyn sees that the staging of Étant donnés — especially Elizabeth Legge
the way that Duchamp forces viewers to become aware of the act of looking 2009, 978-1-84638-056-3
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
and their bodily presence in the gallery space — foreshadowed strategies used
by Minimalism as well as installation, spectatorship, and institutional critique. SARAH LUCAS
Au Naturel
Julian Jason Haladyn is a writer and artist Amna Malik
based in Canada. He teaches at the 2009, 978-1-84638-054-9
University of Western Ontario. $16.00T/£9.95 paper
CHRIS MARKER
La Jetée
Janet Harbord
2009, 978-1-84638-048-8
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
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AFTERALL BOOKS
art
RICHARD LONG
A Line Made by Walking
Dieter Roelstraete
An illustrated study of a work
that marks the transition from In 1967, Richard Long, then twenty-two years old and a student at Saint Martin’s
minimalism to a new mode of School of Art in London, walked back and forth along a straight line in the grass
practice encompassing conceptual in the English countryside, leaving a track that he then photographed in black
art, land art, and performance art.
and white. The resulting work, A Line Made by Walking, was not only the start-
ing point for Long’s career as an artist but also a landmark for a new kind of art
April emerging in Europe and the Americas. The formal simplicity of Long’s artwork
6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp.
12 color illus., 20 black & white illus. suggested a relation to minimalism, but its location outside the gallery context
and its suggestion of bodily actions also connected it to a new generation of
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
978-1-84638-058-7 artists whose work combined the organic, the temporary, the nonmaterial, and
$35.00S/£19.95 cloth
the performative to offer a critique of the art system and its language, forms, and
978-1-84638-060-0 values. Long’s work bridged the concerns of his North American and European
One Work series
counterparts, connecting the industrial scale of Robert Smithson to the modesty
of Gilberto Zorio, the exercises in dematerialization of Robert Morris with the
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organic forms of Alighiero e Boetti, and the performance of Yvonne Rainer
with that of Joseph Beuys.
Also available in this series Although A Line Made by Walking is an instantly recognizable work, no
HANNE DARBOVEN detailed analysis of this foundational piece has yet been published. At a time
Cultural History 1880–1983 when Richard Long’s career is being celebrated and reassessed, this study by
Dan Adler
2009, 978-1-84638-050-1
writer and curator Dieter Roelstraete could not be more timely.
$16.00T/£9.95 paper Dieter Roelstraete is a writer, editor, and curator based in Berlin and Antwerp. He is a
ANDY WARHOL curator at MuHKA, Antwerp, and one of the editors of Afterall journal. His writing has
appeared in many magazines and books, including the catalogue of the 2008 Berlin
Blow Job
Biennial, When Things Cast No Shadow.
Peter Gidal
2008, 978-1-84638-041-9
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
YVONNE RAINER
The Mind is a Muscle
Catherine Wood
2007, 978-1-84638-037-2
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a book in the intellectual tradition of Charles Darwin paleontology but also in such new fields of research as
and Thomas Henry Huxley — Julian Huxley’s genomics and EvoDevo.
grandfather, known for his energetic championing Most of the contributors to Evolution — the
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written by nine experts (many of them Huxley’s associ- of new ones, and the synthesis of the most suitable —
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Julian Huxley (1887–1975), an English evolutionary biologist, painstakingly built a solid set of explanations for what
was a prolific author and the leading figure in the mid-twentieth Darwin called the “grandeur” of life.
century effort to develop the modern synthesis of evolutionary
theory. He was the first director of UNESCO, a founding Massimo Pigliucci is Professor of Philosophy at the City
member of the World Wildlife Fund, and the recipient of University of New York. Gerd B. Müller is Professor of
UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science in Theoretical Biology at the University of Vienna and Chairman
1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition
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Written while Singer was also at work on the three-volume
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Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of
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Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir (2004); Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic
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Access Controlled, Deibert 52 Culture of Improvement, Friedel 39 Global Imbalances and the Lessons of
Bretton Woods, Eichengreen 46
Alpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, Curating Consciousness, Brennan 18
second edition Extended Mind, Menary 74
Davidson, The Future of Thinking 66
Anachronic Renaissance, Nagel 35 Gold, ThermoPoetics 56
Deibert, Access Controlled 52
Anatomy of Bias, Lauwereyns 78 Graham, Rethinking Curating 19
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Architecture or Techno-Utopia, Scott 41 Grammar as Science, Larson 71
Diffie, Privacy on the Line, updated and
Armendáriz, The Economics of Microfinance, expanded edition 42 Grammont, Naturalizing Intention in Action
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Driesen, Economic Thought and U.S. Climate
Atran, The Native Mind and the Cultural Change Policy 60 Green Light, Gessert 8
Construction of Nature 48
Dutton, World Wide Research 53 Greening through IT, Tomlinson 7
Bader, Hall of Mirrors 16
Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience, Gross, Ignorance and Surprise 54
Bainbridge, The Warcraft Civilization 5 Izhikevich 49
Guyotat, Coma 32
Bais, In Praise of Science 6 Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change
Policy, Driesen 60 Haladyn, Marcel Duchamp 37
Baker, Taking Economics Seriously 27
Economics and Psychology, Frey 47 Hall of Mirrors, Bader 16
Bangalore, Supertagging 70
Economics of Microfinance, second edition, Hanson, Foundational Issues in Human
Bara, Cognitive Pragmatics 75 Armendáriz 61 Brain Mapping 76
Battistella, Health Care Turning Point 25 Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles, Schwartz 13 Hård, Urban Machinery 50
Beranek, Riding the Waves 40 Edwards, The World in a Machine 24 Harrigan, Second Person 44
Between Reason and Experience, Feenberg Effortless Attention, Bruya 74 Health Care Turning Point, Battistella 25
54
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Black, Exploring General Equilibrium 47 Lessons of Bretton Woods 46 Hocquenghem, The Screwball Asses 31
Bohman, Democracy across Borders 49 Entangled, Salter 67 Hogan, The Natural Resources Trap 60
Brennan, Curating Consciousness 18 Evolution — the Extended Synthesis, Hong, Wireless 51
Bruya, Effortless Attention 74 Pigliucci 58
Hugdahl, The Two Halves of the Brain 79
Cameron, Theorizing Digital Cultural Evolution, Definitive Edition, Huxley 58
Heritage 44 Huxley, Evolution, The Definitive Edition
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted 58
Campbell, Knowledge and Skepticism 73 Psychology, Richardson 48
Ignorance and Surprise, Gross 54
Campbell, Time and Identity 73 Exploring General Equilibrium, Black 47
In Praise of Science, Bais 6
Chance, Iversen 20 Fassin, Contemporary States of Emergency
34 Internet Architecture and Innovation,
Chapelle, Semi-Supervised Learning 45 van Schewick 62
Feedback, Joselit 43
Chenoweth, Rethinking Violence 59 Introduction to Civil War, Tiqqun 29
Feenberg, Between Reason and Experience
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Reuter-Lorenz 77 63 Introduction to Quantitative Finance,
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Foundational Issues in Human Brain Neuroscience 49
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Joselit, Feedback 43
Color Ontology and Color Science, Cohen Frey, Economics and Psychology 47
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Friedel, A Culture of Improvement 39
Coma, Guyotat 32 Kotz, Words to Be Looked At 41
Frisby, Seeing, second edition 80
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Fumagalli, Crisis in the Global Economy 33
Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Language and Equilibrium, Parikh 69
Design of Mechanisms, Sacks 68 Future of Thinking, Davidson 66
Larson, Grammar as Science 71
Contemporary States of Emergency, Fassin Gee, New Digital Media and Learning as an
34 Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as Lauwereyns, The Anatomy of Bias 78
One Way Forward 66 Lawrence, Learning and Inference in
Coyne, The Tuning of Place 67
Gessert, Green Light 8 Computational Systems Biology 80
Crafting the Quantum, Seth 57
Gilboa, Rational Choice 62 Learning and Inference in Computational
Cramton, Combinatorial Auctions 46 Systems Biology, Lawrence 80
Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals,
Crisis in the Global Economy, Fumagalli 33 Selin 59 Learning to Communicate in Science and
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Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns.