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'Eyal Weizman (eyal weizman) boldly attempts to create an entirely new method to conceptualize the relationship between surfaces, movement, and the tools of war.' — Achille Mbembe versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/au… forensic-architecture.org/about/team/mem… counter-investigations.org/about/team/mem… instagram.com/european_revie…

'And this (*****, 2024) is maybe not an unredacted version [of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, 1976], but I think it’s definitely restored to something closer to the way it was conceived.' — Arthur Jafa nytimes.com/2024/04/05/art… gladstonegallery.com/publication/12… gladstonegallery.com/exhibition/124…

'Spanning the ancient world to the futuristic continents of speculative fiction, [...] the earthquakes, [...] a recurrent eruptive force and a provocation for disparate modes of critical engagement with the long and catastrophic history of the Americas.' global.oup.com/academic/produ…

'[Rita Segato] considers violence against women in historical forms, its domestic, public, military, and paramilitary forms, and in its relation to gratuitous cruelty and the formation of masculine subjects.' — Judith Butler politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo… routledge.com/The-Critique-o…

'After Kant and Foucault, here is Javad Tabatabai’s version of What is Enlightenment? [His] masterpiece offers a profound meditation on the creative resources that secretly hide behind any condition of impossibility.' — Catherine Malabou politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

'Orlando Patterson examines slavery at several levels of abstraction, from micro-level relations of domination to the macro-structures of entire societies.' politybooks.com/author-books?a… hup.harvard.edu/authors/6405-p… peepaltreepress.com/authors/orland… hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/or…

'Noa Levin argues that [Benjamin's and Deleuze's] media theories were informed by their respective readings of the philosophy and mathematics of G.W. Leibniz.' bloomsbury.com/us/benjamin-de… bloomsbury.com/uk/text-as-dan… upress.umn.edu/9780816616015/… edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-affirming… bloomsbury.com/us/philosophy-…

'Taking its inspiration from the leading Algerian writer Kateb Yacine (‘I’m better off not being too cultivated. I have to retain a certain barbarianism’), Louisa Yousfi explores ways of resisting the cultural and moral hegemony of the French ‘Empire’.' versobooks.com/en-gb/products…

'Nye places the evolution of electronic music in its broader historical context, demonstrating the intertwining of America's popular music with the Cold War history of West Germany and the post-1989 history of the Berlin Republic.' global.oup.com/academic/produ… mac-s.be/fr/publication…

'Like most of his theatrical pieces, Félix Guattari's Parmenides is a brief but extremely suggestive dialogue that brings life to his concerns about psychoanalysis, semiotics, the history of philosophy, contemporary post-theatre.' link.springer.com/book/978303169… bloomsbury.com/uk/felix-guatt…

'Behind the establishment’s long war against crowds is the work of eccentric proto-fascist Gustave Le Bon. Having witnessed the revolutionary Paris Commune, he declared the crowd barbaric, the enemy of all that was civilized.' versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/au… whitechapelgallery.org/events/big-ide…

'Christopher Long’s latest volume of essays on the prestigious 19th-century architect, essayist, and progenitor of modernism [...] exposes and explodes old myths about Adolf Loos [...].' kant-books.cz/en/books/adolf… kant-books.cz/en/books/essay… kant-books.cz/en/books/adolf…

'An homage to the childhood genius of Black SF writer Octavia E. Butler. Bringing to view a selection of unpublished writings and drawings, the book traces her fascination with human-alien symbiosis to her early empathy with [...] marginalized creatures.' global.oup.com/academic/produ…

'Rejecting any pure theory of homosexuality that would figure its “otherness” as revolutionary, Christian Maurel (1931–2011) contends that the ruling classes have invented homosexuality as a sexual ghetto, splitting and mutilating desire in the process.' semiotexte.com/the-screwball-…

'The Personality of Power is a political treatise on fascism and its precursor movements, coupled with a philosophical inquiry into becoming reactionary as a collective process.' dukeupress.edu/the-personalit… soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coo…

'The multitude has a linguistic and spatial grammar that corresponds to the serial nature of forms and typologies that constitute the analogical city. Architecture is a [dead] language.' — Cameron McEwan punctumbooks.com/titles/analogi… rizzolibookstore.com/product/archit… bloomsbury.com/uk/analogical-…

'What is the place of bodies that can no longer assemble, discuss freedom, or protest? Can the completely dependent speak for themselves — and if not, who can speak for them?' penguin.co.uk/books/461102/t… penguin.co.uk/books/308765/r… dukeupress.edu/insult-and-the…

'Fueled by iconoclastic sentiments [...] digital approaches to architecture were founded on a profound ambivalence toward the visual realm endemic to mid-20th cen. architectural and mathematical modernisms.' mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049016/… appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/design… routledge.com/Builders-of-th…