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Blast - Distorted Memories (Book)
Alexander Hacke became obsessed with classical music at an early age, but ended up dropping out of school and hanging out with punks, squatters, and bohemians in the West Berlin underground scene. After his first music projects under the pseudonym Alexander von Borsig, he joined the newly formed Einstürzende Neubauten in 1980. While the Neubauten became a groundbreaking and hugely successful band, Hacke not only experimented with all kinds of stimulants, but also continued to develop musically: …
Design Harder (Book)
As the graphic design field faces new cultural and ethical challenges, Design Harder offers a timely response. Written by Erik Carter, an influential voice whose work bridges commercial design and critical discourse, the book challenges readers to reconsider what graphic design can be. Through seven interconnected essays, Carter probes the purpose, power, and potential future of the field—inviting readers to imagine a more sustainable and equitable artistic practice while offering the tools to…
Other Internet 2018–2024 (Book)
The 2010s were an exciting and contentious period in technology and culture. Amidst backlash against the growing power of big tech platforms, cryptocurrency technologies saw rapid adoption and blockchains became a serious object of study in art and academia. As a response to big tech, both mainstream pundits and technologists sought alternative narratives. Research collective Other Internet recognized the significance of these events, and became both a leading participant and a keen observer of …
Transcendental Mathematics (Book)
In Transcendental Mathematics, Eric Schmid confronts the fundamental epistemological problem that has haunted philosophy since Kant's fourfold division of knowledge into analytic a priori, synthetic a priori, synthetic a posteriori, and the notoriously empty fourth cell of analytic a posteriori, a schema whose boundaries have been successively contested throughout analytic philosophy, from Carnap's logical empiricism (which sought to collapse the synthetic a priori into the analytic a priori thr…
Live Audio Essays (Book)
Live Audio Essays presents transcripts from performances and films by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, an artist known for his political and cultural reflections on sound and listening. Abu Hamdan’s intricately crafted and heavily researched monologues are at times intimate, humorous, and entertaining, yet politically disquieting in their revelations. Using personal narratives, anecdotes, popular media, and transcripts rooted in historical and contemporary moments, the artist leads the reader through his in…
Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Book)
DeForrest Brown, Jr.’s Assembling a Black Counter Culture presents a comprehensive account of techno with a focus on the history of Black experiences in industrialized labor systems—repositioning the genre as a unique form of Black musical and cultural production.
Brown traces the genealogy and current developments in techno, locating its origins in the 1980s in the historically emblematic city of Detroit and the broader landscape of Black musical forms. Reaching back from the transatlantic slav…
Gianni Sassi Fuorigabbia - Pubblicità, Grafica, Editoria, Musica, Ecc.
Italian Language Edition Pubblicitario, art director, editore, discografico, promotore di eventi: Gianni Sassi è stato tutte queste cose insieme, e anche molto altro. Dalla Cramps ad “Alfabeta”, da Pollution a MilanoPoesia, passando per riviste d’arte sui generis, concerti memorabili e campagne pubblicitarie spregiudicate, Sassi ha attraversato trent’anni di cultura italiana. Lo ha fatto collaborando con artisti e intellettuali fra i più importanti del secondo Novecento, reinventandosi sempre e …
Nel cuore della bestia (Book)
*Please note that this book is available in Italian language only.* "The authors are one of the founders of Franti, the other since the early 1980s a fanzinista and then a reporter for A/Rivista Anarchica from the trenches of punk and self-production. Our names are Stefano Giaccone and Marco Pandin. Each of us, in his or her own way, dreamed of a revolution in the 1970s and 1980s: sure, we were young and these were things that were nice to do and needed to be done. Almost thirty years ago we col…
Here Comes Trouble - An Inquiry Into Art, Magic & Madness As Deviant Knowledge
Here Comes Trouble is the first solo publication by British artist, researcher and radio producer Alex Head. This book is not about thermodynamics, negative feedback or refrigerators. Neither is it about geology, black holes or migration, yet each of these material systems offer insights into the slippery topic of deviancy. Here Comes Trouble explores the role of the deviant form within differing sets of social and material processes in order to draw conclusions about the production of new knowl…
Sacred Plant & Native - Volume 4
Sacred plants are either connected to ritual practice or considered of high cultural importance. This encompasses trees, flowers, fruits and other vegetation associated with religion and folklore, but also that have had a profound impact on humanity. From musing over customary sheaves to looking romantically over far-flung ethnobotanical research, this is an endeavour to celebrate the sacred plants in every sense, in any place, to anyone. Vol. 4 explores jack-o'-lanterns and bonfires.
Sacred Plant & Native - Volume 3
Sacred plants are either connected to ritual practice or considered of high cultural importance. This encompasses trees, flowers, fruits and other vegetation associated with religion and folklore, but also that have had a profound impact on humanity. From musing over customary sheaves to looking romantically over far-flung ethnobotanical research, this is an endeavour to celebrate the sacred plants in every sense, in any place, to anyone. Vol. 3 explores The North American Desert region and Meso…
The Life Of The Truth
In this brief, dense essay, René Daumal bids us to resist the very notion of the truth, and to recognize it as an artistic and metaphysical dead-end. René Daumal (1908-1944) was a French poet and writer often associated with surrealism (though he fought against the label), spiritualism, and ‘pataphysics. He is perhaps best remembered for the posthumously published novel, Mount Analogue (1952).
Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice (Book)
Over the last few decades the term ‘bootlegging’—a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers—has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishing…