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Non-Extractive Architecture Vol. 1 - On Designing without Depletion

Sternberg Press 2021 ISBN 9783956795916 Acqn 31342
Pb 21x30cm 296pp col ills £22.50

Contributions by Dele Adeyemo, Benjamin Bratton, Stephanie Carlisle, Emanuele Coccia, Keller
Easterling, Swarnabh Ghosh, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Joseph Grima, Phineas Harper, Elsa
Hoover, Jane Hutton, Interiors Agency, Elisa Iturbe, Luke Jones, Chiara Di Leone, Armin Linke,
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Nicholas Pevzner, Maria Smith, Mark Wigley.

As the true urgency of the environmental crises we face becomes clear, architecture requires
fundamental reinvention. The assumption that the building industry can only fulfill humanity's
needs with the irreversible exploitation of the environment, of people, and of the future needs to
be reconsidered. Through a series of essays by architects, geographers, historians, economists,
urbanists, and philosophers, Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing without Depletion
explores whether an alternative paradigm in design is possible, and what values it might be
founded on.

Could architecture be understood as the practice of guardianship of the environment, both

physical and social, rather than an agent of depletion? Could the role of the architect deal less
with form and more with integration, circularity, reuse, material research, and community
building? Could supply chains be made shorter, and could buildings be more closely tied to the
economies in which they exist? What are the models and metrics that such a paradigm could
adopt?

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INTRA! INTRA! - Towards an INTRA SPACE

Sternberg Press 2021 ISBN 9783956795893 Acqn 31266
Pb 17x22cm 256pp col ills £19.25

Contributions by Fahim Amir, Clemens Apprich, Esther Balfe, Gabrielle Cram, Dennis Del Favero,
Ursula Frohne, Christina Jauernik, Vicki Kirby, Hannes Mayer, Diane Shooman, Susanne
Thurow, Wolfgang Tschapeller, Birk Weiberg, John Zissovici

"INTRA! INTRA! details an ambitious and provocative project that explores human and
posthuman forms of agency within a context of spatial research. The project situates itself around
developments in artificial intelligence and technical advances in the mapping and creation of
nonhuman subjectivities in relation to the presence of human and nonhuman bodies. The book
develops forms of spatial occupation that are not a simulacrum of human movement, but suggest
whole new forms of spatial practice and the everyday interactions that might occur between
human and nonhuman bodies, and poses profound questions around how a future architecture
could be developed and inhabited by a vast spectrum of possible citizens."
-Nic Clear, University of Huddersfield

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Edi Hila
Sternberg Press 2021 ISBN 9783956795947 Acqn 31354
Hb 23x28cm 304pp col ills £27.95

This book is the first comprehensive monograph of the highly accomplished Albanian artist Edi
Hila. His vast oeuvre, long overlooked, describes the political and social transformations of
Eastern Europe over the last half century-its paradigm shifts, the pitfalls and temptations of
consumerism, changes in visual culture-in a way that is markedly different from the familiar
strains of pop banalism.

Reproducing a considerable number of Hila's drawings and paintings since the early 1970s
alongside his own writings, this monograph is published in conjunction with the retrospective
exhibition "Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation" curated by Joanna Mytkowska, Kathrin Rhomberg,
and Erzen Shkololli, which took place in Warsaw and Tirana in 2018. Essays by Edi Muka, Hila's
former student at the National Academy of Arts in Tirana and longstanding curatorial companion,
and Adam Szymczyk, who invited Hila to participate in documenta 14 in 2017, investigate the way
the artist translates the specificities of Albanian sociopolitical transformations into the language of
art. Eric de Chassey, art historian and painting specialist, reflects on Hila's realism as a particular
artistic position within postwar European painting.

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Parapolitics - Cultural Freedom and the Cold War

Sternberg Press 2021 ISBN 9783956795084 Acqn 31381
Hb 21x29cm 616pp col ills £31

Contributions by Savita Apte, Doug Ashford, Michael Baers, Ivana Bago, Lene Berg, Annett
Busch, Rhea Dall, Peter Delius, Kodwo Eshun, Jenifer Evans, Anselm Franke, Andrea Giunta,
Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara, Stacy Hardy, Barnor Hesse, Michael Hochgeschwender, Emmanuel
Iduma, Iman Issa, Voluspa Jarpa, Gabi Ngcobo, Alexander Keefe, Hyunjin Kim, Christian
Kravagna, Antonia Majaca, Porter McCray, Sylvester Ogbechie, Rasha Salti, Erhard Schuttpelz,
Chinmay Sharma, Yashas Shetty, Quinn Slobodian, Karin Zitzewitz.

During the Cold War, modernist art became a flagship of freedom and democracy in the West,
and took on the role of a symbolic overcoming of fascism. Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the
Cold War examines the cultural diplomacy of this period, particularly the activities and magazines
of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization funded by the Central Intelligence Agency
that was tasked with steering the left away from Soviet Communism and toward a new world
order established under the aegis of the United States. This book analyzes how the
organization's activities in the non-European world were a major force behind the culturalization
of economic liberalism on an international scale. With extensive archival documentation and
recent responses by artists and writers, this book is a rich reference for readers interested in
challenging the structural conditions of contemporary art and the prevailing canons of modernism.

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Ion Grigorescu - Diaries and Dreams, 1976-1979

Sternberg Press 2021 ISBN 9783956794001 Acqn 31430
Hb 14x21cm 352pp col ills £20.50

In recent years, the work of Ion Grigorescu, one of the seminal Eastern European visual artists of
his generation, has attracted increasing attention in the West. This volume is the second of his
translated diaries-the first from 1970 to 1975 was published in 2014 by Sternberg Press-and is
assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.
It not only counters the facile reading of Grigorescu's practice in the context of Conceptual art and
performance art, but provides insight into the artist's multifocal thinking, which incorporates an
original critique of modernism, the dystopian effects of an instrumentalized idea of reason and
rationality, an analysis of subjectivity, and a penetrating gaze into a dialectic of secrecy and
elucidation, of exposure and mystification.

Grigorescu's diaries are written notes revolving around the status of the image and investigate
the relation of the body to society and of art to the world through a phenomenological approach.
His work proposes a parallel conception of the public made tangible through the eloquence of the
body.

In poetic language full of powerfully pictorial metaphors, Grigorescu's reflects on the tension
between the realistic effects of the image, the suppression of realism, and the hidden traces the
gaze holds through the activities of the increasingly present unconscious of collective memory.
Along with the drawings, paintings, photographs, and sketches that accompany them, the diaries
serve as an introduction that open the possibility of conceiving Grigorescu's art as a rare
evocation of a singular way of thinking: a stance.

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Why are they so afraid of the lotus? (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 2)
Sternberg Press 2021 ISBN 9783956795695 Acqn 31431
Pb 11x18cm 256pp col ills £10.50

Texts by Divya Mehra, Leslie Marmon Silko, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Julio
Garcia Espinosa, Sky Hopinka, Ranu Mukherjee, Tisa Bryant, Katherine McKittrick & Alexander
G. Weheliye, Frantz Fanon, Christina Sharpe, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Simone Browne, Astria
Suparak, Christine Wang, Camille Rankine, Kathy Zarur, Dionne Brand, Renee Gladman, Angie
Morrill, Eve Tuck, tamara suarez porras, Wendy Xu, Amy Fung, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton,
Steffani Jemison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

What does the promise of "speaking nearby" rather than "speaking about" look like today? What
are the politics of hospitality? What are the problematics of "postfeminism," and how do we
challenge the West as the authoritative subject of feminist knowledge? What are the ways that
language can be a site of rupture? How do we generate mistrust in the "well-written," and how
can poetry be a radical act of refusal? How can we be subjects that believe in land and not
borders? What influence has technology and digital space had on the "making and unmaking of
identity"? How do we navigate a cyclical eruption of decolonizations?

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Oceans Rising - A Companion to "Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation"

Sternberg Press 2021 ISBN 9783956796098 Acqn 31432
Pb 23x30cm 272pp col ills £21.50

The oceans are rising. On the rise are the metrics of accelerated human activities: sea level,
water temperature, acidity, algal blooms, and the depletion of fish communities and marine life.
The loss of abundance and diversity has devastating effects on the services the oceans render to
the earth, exhausting their unrecognized labor of carbon sequestration, climate resilience, and
nutritional offerings. Thinking along a land-sea continuum, how can we fathom the political,
aesthetic, and epistemological rise of the oceans from centuries of invisibilization and forgetting?
What are the oceans' own "waves of knowing"? What ideas and memories do the oceans hold in
their depth and reanimate in response to the trembling of earth's ecosystems? How to escape the
silos of research and inquiry that narrow and fragment the knowledge of the oceans? Asking new
questions and using multiple registers of sensing can lead to a revitalization of the ways humans
engage with the oceans at this precarious moment and create new pathways for reparative
justice.

Oceans Rising is a companion reader to the research exhibition "Territorial Agency: Oceans in
Transformation" commissioned by TBA21-Academy, an independent oceanic art-science initiative
operating out of Ocean Space in Venice. The publication gathers forty-one thoughtful and
generous contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the
rapidly changing oceans. Writing from places of conflict and concern, the contributors respond to
the magnitude and urgency of ecological devastation, and, most importantly, provide a multitude
of narratives that strengthen our knowledge communities and commit to world-making practices
from an oceanic perspective.

Contributions by Nabil Ahmed, Matti Aikio, Jamie Allen, Palin Ansusinha, Shaul Bassi, Nchongayi
Christantus Begealawuh, Alexandra Boghosian, Louise Carver, Carolina Caycedo, Pietro
Consolandi, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Junyuan Feng, Elisa Giuliano, Monika Halkort, Jaimey
Hamilton Faris, Jeremiah Ikongio, Jeremy Jackson, Laleh Khalili, Cresantia Frances Koya
Vaka'uta, Britt Kramvig, Jeanne Penjan Lassus, Alvin Li, Camila Marambio, Joao Martins, Anne
McClintock, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Margarida Mendes, Astrida Neimanis, Maureen
Penjueli, Markus Reymann, Pietro Scammacca, Shanee Stopitzky, Himali Singh Soin, Marina
Tabassum, Territorial Agency, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz,
and Daniela Zyman.

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Art Writing in Crisis

Sternberg Press 2021 ISBN 9783956795855 Acqn 31433
Pb 13x21cm 288pp £17.25

Contributions by Taylor Renee Aldridge & Jessica Lynne, Kalia Brooks Nelson, Maddee Clark,
Justin Clemens, Ben Eltham, Fayen d'Evie & Lizzie Boon, Dan Fox, Maria Fusco, Sarah Gory,
Boris Groys, Paul James & Brad Haylock, Flavin Judd, Sara Kaaman, Jessica Gysel & Katja
Mater, Bella Li & Justin Clemens, Freek Lomme, Rachel Marsden, Nikos Papastergiadis & Hou
Hanru, Megan Patty, Barry Schwabsky, Anna-Sophie Springer & Caleb Waldorf, and Astrid
Vorstermans.

Fires burn around the world. Systemic discrimination persists, precarity is increasing, and the
modern democratic project faces challenges from all sides. Art writing helps us to understand art
which in turn helps us to understand such crises. But art writing itself is in crisis. Newspapers and
magazines offer fewer channels than ever for independent art criticism, persistent institutional
biases exclude the positions of many, and a proliferation of platforms presents opportunities and
challenges in equal measure.

This volume presents contributions from a broad range of authors who address the social and
political dimensions of art and art writing in the contemporary context, and the ways in which new
writing and publishing practices promote critical engagement among readerships as never before.

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Everything Passes Except the Past - Decolonizing Ethnographic Museums, Film Archives,
and Public Space
Sternberg Press 2021 ISBN 9783956796012 Acqn 31434
Pb 14x21cm 308pp £15.50

Contributions by Yaa Addae Nantwi, Lotte Arndt, Andres Antebi Arno, Bianca Baldi, Daniel
Blaufuks, Filipa Cesar, Didi Cheeka, Clementine Deliss, Karfa Diallo, Sally Fenaux Barleycorn,
Alessandra Ferrini, Fradique, Pablo Gonzales Morandi, Guido Gryseels, Jana J. Haeckel, Didier
Houenoude, Duane Jethro, Christian Kopp, Yann LeGall, Alberto Lopez Bargados, Eloy Martin
Corrales, Grace Ndiritu, Ines Ponte, Linda Porn, Tamer El Said, Benedicte Savoy, Stefanie
Schulte Strathaus, Mnyaka Sururu Mboro.

Everything Passes Except the Past takes an artistic and discursive approach to coming to grips
with a colonial past that remains present in museums, public space, and image archives. The
contributions in this book propose visionary theoretical, practical, and ethical foundations for
future museums based on artistic and curatorial remediation of ethnographic collections. They
also cover the role of colonial films in our collective and national memory, as well as the
challenges and perspectives of tearing down or replacing monuments and renaming streets.

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