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1. The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International

   (from the publisher) Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context of twenty-first-century struggles. McKenzie Wark delves into the Situationists' unacknowledged diversity, revealing a world as rich in practice as it is in theory. Tracing the group's development from the bohemian Paris of the '50s to the explosive days of May '68, Wark's take on the Situationists is biographically and historically rich, presenting the group as an ensemble creation, rather than the brainchild and dominion of its most famous member, Guy Debord. Roaming through Europe and the lives of those who made up the movement—including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein, Alex Trocchi and Jacqueline De Jong—Wark uncovers an international movement riven with conflicting passions.

   J. R. Carpenter - 24.03.2014 - 12:15

2. Real and Virtual Cities: Intertextual and Intermedial Mindscapes

   Real and Virtual Cities: Intertextual and Intermedial Mindscapes

   Maya Zalbidea - 24.07.2014 - 14:31

3. Optische Poesie: Von den prähistorischen Schriftzeichen bis zu den digitalen Experimenten der Gegenwart

   Klaus Peter Dencker, visual poet, Germanist and media theorist, documents the spectrum of forms of optical poetry from its pre-historic beginnings up to the present digital age. The compendium provides a typology of optical poetry, an international historical overview with many illustrations and several chronological tables together with indexes of subjects and names providing access to the comprehensive apparatus of notes. (Source: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/176646)

   Alvaro Seica - 10.02.2017 - 12:41

4. The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work here: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana

   In Ghana, adinkra and kente textiles derive their significance from their association with both Asante and Ghanaian cultural nationalism. Adinkra, made by stenciling patterns with black dye, and kente, a type of strip weaving, each convey, through color, style, and adornment, the bearer’s identity, social status, and even emotional state. Yet both textiles have been widely mass-produced outside Ghana, particularly in East Asia, without any compensation to the originators of the designs.

   Anna Wilson - 07.06.2017 - 20:54

5. Nettitudes

   Nettitudes

   Piotr Marecki - 27.04.2018 - 14:36

6. Reading Visual Poetry

   Reading Visual Poetry

   Ana Castello - 10.10.2018 - 15:19

7. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

   The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

   Scott Rettberg - 27.08.2019 - 14:51

8. The Pleasure of the Text

   What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge." --Richard Howard

   (Source: Amazon)

   Daniel Venge Bagge - 20.09.2019 - 20:09

9. A Brief History of Neoliberalism

   A Brief History of Neoliberalism

   Yvanne Michéle Louise Kerignard - 23.09.2019 - 21:54

10. The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room: Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film

    Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs - the double, the labyrinth and the locked room. Rational thought relies on binary oppositions, such as chaos and order, appearance and reality or truth and falsehood. Paradoxes subvert such customary distinctions, logically proving as true what we experientially know to be false.
    The present book explores detective and crime-mystery fiction and film from the perspective of their entrenched metaphors of paradox. This new and intriguing angle yields fresh insights into a genre that has become one of the hallmarks of postmodernism.

    Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 16:28

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