01. Energies in The Arts (2019) – Kahn, D.

02. (W)archives (2021) –  Agostinho, D. et. al.

03. The Contemporary Condition: A Slow, Contemporary Violence (2016) – Parikka, J.

04. Knaben II: I berget det blå (2007) – Egenes, L. G. et. al.

05. On Photography (2008) – Sontag, S.07. Ghosts of My Life (2014) – Fisher, M.

06. Regarding the Pain of Others (2004) – Sontag, S.

07. Ghosts of My  Life (2014) – Fisher, M.

08. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011) – Nixon, R.

09. Neomaterialism (2013) – Simon, J.
10. Bodily Natures (2010) – Alaimo, S.

11. Bodies of Extraction (2022) – Bergé, D. et. al.

12. Against the Anthropocene (2017) – Demos, T. J.

13. Death by Landscape (2022) – Wilk, E.

14. Futurity Report (2017) – de Bruyn, E. C. H., Sven Lütticken, S.

15. Politics of Aesthetics (2013) – Ranciére, J.

16. The Society of the Spectacle (2021) – Debord, G.
 








Douglas Kahn

Energies in The Arts (2019)


Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts: a foundational text.
This book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun— as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from the visual arts, art history, anthropology, music, literature, and the history of science, it offers the first multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts. Just as Douglas Kahn's earlier books helped introduce sound as a category for study in the arts, this new volume will be a foundational volume for future explorers in a largely uncharted domain.

The modern concept of energy is only two hundred years old—an abstraction grounded in extraction—but this book takes a more expansive view. It opens with a clap: the sonic energies in a ceremony of the indigenous Goolarabooloo people of Australia. Other chapters explore the energies of photography; responses of artists in the early twentieth century—including Marcel Duchamp—to scientific discoveries in electricity and electromagnetism; the aestheticization of entropy in works by Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson; free-jazz musician Milford Graves's cross-cultural engagement with music, science, and spiritualism; energy field performance; and the self-generating energy of rumor and gossip as artwork. Contributors include such leading scholars as Linda Dalrymple Henderson, John Tresch, and Caroline A. Jones. Practicing artists and students of art history will find Energies in the Arts an essential work.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press
Published : May 14, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN ‏ : ‎ 9780262039383
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.06 x 1.16 x 9.88 inches

Editor : Douglas Kahn

Contributors :
Susan Ballard, Jennifer Biddle, Marcus Boon, Joan Brassil, Steven Connor, Milford Graves, Daniel Hackbarth, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Caroline A. Jones, Douglas Kahn, David Mather, Stephen Muecke, James Nisbet, Daniela Silvestrin, Michael Taussig, John Tresch, Melissa Warak



Daniela Agostinho, Kristin Veel, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Solveig Gade

(W)archives (2021)

Archival Imaginaries, War and Contemporary Art
An investigation of digital archiving as an integral technology of warfare and how artists respond to these changes.

Digital and data technologies are actively transforming the archives of contemporary warfare. Bringing together a range of scholarly perspectives and artistic practices, (W)archives investigates digital archiving as an integral technology of warfare and how artists respond to these changes. Throughout the book, the (w)archive emerges as a term to grasp the extended materiality of war today, wherein digital archiving intersects with images, bodies, senses, infrastructures, environments, memories, and emotions. The essays explore how this new digital materiality of war reconfigures the archival impulses that have shaped artistic practices over the last decades, and how archives can be mobilized to articulate political demands, conjure new forms of evidence, and make palpable the experience of living with war.
 Publisher : Sternberg Press
Published : August 3, 2021
Language : English
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN : 9783956794568
Dimensions : 6 x 8 inches, 14.8 × 21 cm

Editors : Daniela Agostinho, Kristin Veel, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Solveig Gade

Contributors :
Daniela Agostinho, Heba Y. Amin, Ariella Azoulay, Svea Braunert, Anthony Downey, Sophie Dyer, Solveig Gade, Cristián Gomez-Moya, Sofie Lebech, Aimée Zito Lema, Kathrin Maurer, Kevin McSorley, Anders Engberg Pedersen, Dima Saber, Oraib Toukan, Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers, Arkadi Zaides


Jussi Parikka

The Contemporary Condition 03 (2016)

A Slow, Contemporary Violence:
Damaged Evironments of Technologicl Culture

The contemporary moment is comprised of many overlapping speeds, rhythms, and periods of time. A central theme of Jussi Parikka’s book concerns slowness instead of acceleration: a different sort of a temporal horizon in order to understand some of the environmental temporalities that media and technological arts are involved in. This is approached through art and design practices that unfold this multiplicity of time, closely entwined with contemporary concerns in aesthetic theory, to understand and engage with the planetary time scales of slow environmental violence.
The third volume of the Contemporary Condition series continues the investigation into contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present. The series aims to question the formation of subjectivity and concept of temporality in the world now. It begins from the assumption that art, with its ability to investigate the present and make meaning from it, can lead to an understanding of wider developments within culture and society. Addressing a perceived gap in existing literature on the subject, the series focuses on three broad strands: the issue of temporality, the role of contemporary media and computational technologies, and how artistic practice makes epistemic claims.
 Publisher : Sternberg Press
Published : September 2, 2016
Language : English
Paperback : 48 pages
ISBN : 9783956792823
Dimensions : 5 x 8 inches

Author : Jussi Parikka

Editors : Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund

Liv Grini Egenes, Bjørn Eide, Jan Rob

Knabens historie Bind 4 (2007)

Knaben II: I berget det blå

Knaben is a former mining town in the north of Kvinesdal municipality, in Vestredalen about 50 km north of Liknes. The mining town is located at 630 m above sea level.
The mineral that was extracted was molybdenum, an element used in weapon production. The content of molybdenum was low. On average below 0.2%. To extract 2 kg of molybdenum luster, one had to blast out and finely crush over one ton of ore.

When the Second World War broke out, the mines at Knaben were the only molybdenum mines in Europe that were in operation. Knaben was consequently considered one of the industrial enterprises in Norway that there was the greatest risk that the allied forces would try to hit. The German occupiers stationed at most about 1,000 soldiers in the area, and a number of cannon and anti-aircraft positions were set up. The facilities were attempted to be destroyed by bombing by the Allies twice in 1943.

Publisher : Knabens Venner
Published : 2007
Language : Norwegian (Bokmål)
Hardcover : 128 pages
Dimensions : 

Editors : Liv Grini Egenes, Bjørn Eide, Jan Rob

Contributors : Jan Rob, Liv Grini Egenes

Susan Sontag

On Photography (2019)


Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.
Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.

Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power.

In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books
Published : September 19, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN ‏ : ‎ 97801410053975
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.8 x 1.6 x 13 cm
Author : Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Regarding the Pain of Others (2004)


Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror.

‘A coruscating sermon on how we picture suffering’ The New York Times

What is the purpose of images of pain and suffering? Can there be any real justification for the creation, and consumption, of such images?

In this seminal volume, Susan Sontag examines the uses and meanings of images, from inspiring dissent to fostering violence to creating apathy. And through this lens she considers the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; First PB Edition, Published : February 1, 2004
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 131 pages
ISBN ‏ : ‎ 9780312422196
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.45 x 0.35 x 8.15 inches

Author:  Susan Sontag

Mark Fisher

Ghosts of My Life (2014)

Writings on depression, hauntology and lost futures

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial, and many others.
 Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Published : May 30, 2014
Language : English
Paperback : 232 pages
ISBN : 978-1-78099-226-6

Author : Mark Fisher




Rob Nixon

Slow Violence and The Environmentalism of the Poor (2011)


“Groundbreaking in its call to reconsider our approach to the slow rhythm of time in the very concrete realms of environmental health and social justice.”
—World Literature Today

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode.

In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

Publisher : Harvard University Press
Published : June 14, 2011
Language : English
ISBN : 9780674247994
Paperback : 353 pages

Author : Rob Nixon


Joshua Simon

Neomaterialism (2013)


“After a short period of ‘unbearable lightness of being,’ the social gravitation begins to be felt again. In his book Joshua Simon describes and analyzes the growing weight of the technical, economic, material basis of our society. The author’s sensibility for today’s Zeitgeist is at the same time entertaining and precise.”
—Boris Groys

Since the so-called dematerialization of currencies and art practices in the late 1960s and early 1970, we have witnessed a move into what Joshua Simon calls an economy of neomaterialism. With this, several shifts have occurred: the focus of labor has moved from production to consumption, the commodity has become the historical subject, and symbols now behave like materials.
Neomaterialism explores the meaning of the world of commodities, and reintroduces various notions of dialectical materialism into the conversation on the subjectivity and vitalism of things. Here, Simon advocates for the unreadymade, sentimental value, and the promise of the dividual as a means for a vocabulary in this new economy of meaning.

Reflecting on general intellect as labor and the subjugation of an overqualified generation to the neofeudal order of debt finance—with a particular focus on dispossession and rent economy, post-appropriation display strategies and negation, the barricade and capital’s technocratic fascisms—Neomaterialism merges traditions of epic communism with the communism that is already here.
Publisher : Sternberg Press
Published : 2013
Language : English
Paperback : 194 pages
ISBN : 9783943365085
Dimensions : 12 × 20 cm

Author : Joshua Simon

Stacy Alaimo

Bodily Natures (2010)

Science, Environment, and the Material Self

How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment.Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press
Published : October 25, 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 193 pages
ISBN ‏ : ‎ 9780253222404
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.97 x 6.08 x 0.62 inches
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces

Author : Stacy Alaimo

David Bergé

Bodies of Extraction (2022)

Underneath the Ground of Islands

What does it mean to drill deep and interfere with the configuration of tectonic plates? What does it mean to hollow out and alienate islandic undergrounds? How is wealth extracted and exploited from the ground, crumbled into fragments, transformed into matter, pieces of power, moved away to be represented elsewhere? Whose lungs and souls are capitalized upon and hidden under the suffocating dust in mining shafts? To whom do the surface of the land and its underground belong? This book takes proto-industrial mining in the Aegean island of Serifos as an entry point for disclosing historical and contemporary consequences of politics of the soil through land extraction, and looks at how mineral evidence was historically produced, disseminated, and capitalized upon in the Aegean region and beyond.Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kyklàda.Press
Published : November 30, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 92 pages
ISBN ‏ : ‎ 9464202882
Dimensions : 10.2 x 16.2 cm

Editor : David Bergé

Contributors : Lydia Xynogala, Lorena Vicini, Constantinos Speras, Milica Ivić, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Aslı Özdoyuran, David Bergé

T. J. Demos

Against the Anthropocene (2017)

Visual Culture and Environment Today

Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects—to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred—but likely disastrous—method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world’s near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present.Publisher : Sternberg Press
Published : July 2017
Language : English
Paperback : 132 pages
ISBN : 9783956792106
Dimensions : 14 × 20 cm

Author : T. J. Demos

Elvia Wilk

Death by Landscape (2022)


From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of “fan nonfiction” about living and writing in the age of extinction
In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self.

Wilk examines creative works across time and genre in order to break down binaries between dystopia and utopia, real and imagined, self and world. She makes connections between works by such wide-ranging writers as Mark Fisher, Karen Russell, Han Kang, Doris Lessing, Anne Carson, Octavia E. Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Kathe Koja, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, and Hildegard von Bingen.

What happens when research becomes personal, when the observer breaks through the glass? Through the eye of the fan, this collection delves into literal and literary world-building projects—medieval monasteries, solarpunk futures, vampire role plays, environments devoid of humans—bridging the micro and the macro and revealing how our relationship to narrative shapes our relationships to the natural world and to one another.Publisher : Soft Skull Press
Published : July 19, 2022
Language : English
ISBN : 9781593767150
Paperback : 320 pages
Dimensions : 5.49 x 0.84 x 8.22 inches

Author : Elvia Wilk

Eric C. H. de Bruyn, Sven Lütticken

Futurity Report (2017)


Theorists, historians, and artists address the precarious futurity of the notion of the future itself.

Not long ago, a melancholic left and a manic neoliberalism seemed to arrive at an awkward consensus: the foreclosure of futurity. Whereas the former mourned the failure of its utopian project, the latter celebrated the triumph of a global marketplace. The radical hope of realizing a singularly different, more equitable future was displaced by a belief that the future had already come to pass, limiting post-historical society to an uneventful life of endless accumulation. Today, amidst an abundance of neofuturisms, posthumanisms, futurologies, speculative philosophies, and accelerationist scenarios, there is as well an expanding awareness of a looming planetary catastrophe driven by the extractionist logic of capitalism. Despite this return to the future, the temporal horizon of our present moment is perhaps more aptly characterized by the “shrinking future” of just-in-time production, risk management, high-frequency trading, and the futures market. In Futurity Report, theorists, historians, and artists address the precarious futurity of the notion of the future itself. Publisher : Sternberg Press
Published : October 13, 2020
Language : English
ISBN: 9783956794230
Paperback : 280 pages
Dimensions : 7 x 9 inches

Editors : Eric C. H. de Bruyn, Sven Lütticken

Contributors : McKenzie Wark, China Miéville, Kerstin Stakemeier, Diedrich Diederichsen, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Vishmidt, Johannes Paul Raether, Felicity D. Scott, Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson, Doreen Mende, Pedro Neves Marques, Achille Mbembe, Kodwo Eshun, Haytham El-Wardany, T. J. Demos, Ana Teixeira Pinto

Guy Debord

The Society of the Spectacle (2021)


First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life. Publisher : Critical Editions
Published : May 1, 2021
Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN : 9781922491282
Dimensions : 5.06 x 0.3 x 7.81 inches

Author : Guy Debord

Jacques Ranciére

The Politics of Aesthetics (2013)


The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Rancière's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern age.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Published : June 27, 2013
Language : English
Paperback : 144 pages
ISBN : 9781780935355
Dimensions : 5.45 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
Author: Jacques Ranciére