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e-flux journal - What's Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It?
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956792670 Acqn 27766
Pb 11x18cm 360pp 11ills 10.50

Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Stephen Squibb, Anton Vidokle
With contributions by Paul Chan, Keti Chukhrov, Cluster, Antke Engel, Hu Fang, Brian Kuan
Wood, Lee Mackinnon, Chus Martnez, Tavi Meraud, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Elizabeth
A. Povinelli and Kim Turcot DiFruscia, Paul B. Preciado, Martha Rosler, Virginia Solomon, Jalal
Toufic, Jan Verwoert, Slavoj iek

Lacan famously defined love as giving something you dont have to someone who doesnt want it.
But love is more than a YouTube link or a URL. This beautiful negative flip of what is commonly
considered the most positive force in the universe helps us begin to see loves fullness and
endless bounty as based in emptiness and lack. Loves joy is not to be found in fulfillment, it is to
be found in recognition: even though I can never return what was taken away from you, I may be
the only person alive who knows what it is. I dont have what it is youre missing, but knowing its
shape already makes a world where you can live without it.

Is the beleaguered consciousness that picks up this book post-human, post-reality, pre-internet,
post-it, pre-collapse, pre-fabricated according to a bespoke set of algorithmic preferences, or just
here in the name of love? But whats love got to do with it now, in the present? Over the past few
decades, it has often been said that we no longer have an addressee for our political demands.
But thats not true. We have each other. What we can no longer get from the state, the party, the
union, the boss, we ask for from one another. And we provide. Since 2009, need and care and
desire and admiration have been cross-examined, called as witness, put on parole, and made the
subject of caring inquiry by e-flux journal authors. These writings have been collected to form this
comprehensive volume.

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Eternal Erasure - On Fashion Matters

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793424 Acqn 27735
Pb 14x21cm 190pp 146ills 24col 12.95

Contributions by Madeline Schwartzman, Javier Barcala, Christina Binkley, Rasa Verhaegen,

Timo Rissanen, Bradley Quinn, Jos Teunissen, Pauline van Dongen, Elisa Van Joolen, Liesbeth
in t Hout, Jurgen Bey

Its easy to rant about the fashion industry. A large part of it nowadays is based on producing and
consuming gigantic amounts of clothing. Collections are manufactured all over the world at
dizzying speeds and are sold all year round for extremely low or incredibly high prices. This fast-
changing system seems hard to break into, or out of. How, as a designer, do you deal with this
model in an ever-changing world and come up with innovative ways of designing, producing,
promoting, financing, selling and eventually consuming? How do you meet the needs of todays
consumers and anticipate the needs of tomorrows world? The Masters Program Fashion Matters
at the Sandberg Instituut takes the liberty to speak out freely and change their minds while doing
so.

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David Claerbout - Olympia. (The Real-Time Disintegration into Ruins of the Berlin Olympic
Stadium)
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793387 Acqn 27764
Pb 17x24cm 96pp 52ills 36col 17.50

Edited by Andreas Fiedler

Contributions by David Claerbout, Knut Ebeling, Andreas Fiedler

This publication documents the first iteration of Belgian artist David Claerbouts project Olympia, a
digital simulation of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Conceived to last one thousand years,
Claerbouts simulation uses real-time weather data to present the slow decay of the stadium over
the coming millennium. Projected onto monumental screens in the Boiler House at the KINDL
Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin from late summer 2016 to spring 2017, Olympia aims to
exceed the human ability to imagine time, thus radically surpassing our own experience of the
world.

Juxtaposing human temporality with ideological and technical time, Claerbouts point of departure
is the stadium of the 1936 Olympics, built by Nazi architect Albert Speer, which the artist has
painstakingly digitally rendered, and whose history is recounted in this catalogue. The work
makes reference to the Thousand-Year Reicha concept adopted by the Nazisand the crude
ideas of Speer, who called for architecture, as a symbol of empire, to be designed with its future
ruins in mind.

The slow disintegration of architecture does not fit within our time horizon, yet this richly illustrated
publicationcomplete with time stamped screenshots and installation views of the project, as
well as reflections by Knut Ebeling, Andreas Fiedler, and the artistreveals what is perceptible to
us in real time.

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T. J. Demos - Against the Anthropocene. Visual Culture and Environment Today

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956792106 Acqn 27765
Pb 14x20cm 132pp 25col ills 15.75

Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities in relation 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 culturepopular
science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and
experimental artistic projectsto 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 preferredbut likely disastrousmethod of
approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the worlds near future, we urgently
need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in
the present.

The idea of the Anthropocene needs to be eviscerated, and there is no one better suited to do it
than T. J. Demos. In this sharp book Demos demonstrates that the Anthropocene thesis obscures
a host of gross inequalities and the powerful interests behind them. Exploring examples (such as
Google Earth) that support Anthropocene iconography, as well as a plethora of critical
alternatives that decolonize and indigenize the Anthropocene, Demos offers a strong indictment
of the violence of contemporary fossil capitalism. This manifesto should be on the bookshelves
and in the back pockets of all climate justice activists.
Ashley Dawson, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center and College of Staten Island

T. J. Demos is one of the most important critics of visual culture and its politics today. In this
must-read book he makes a compelling argument not only against the discourse of the
Anthropocene but also for an activist, critical, and intersectional culture of climate justice.
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard University

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Workshop of the Film Form

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793110 Acqn 27604
Pb 18x24cm 396pp 176ill 20

Workshop of the Film Form provides an in-depth overview of the achievements of Warsztat
Formy Filmowej (WWF; Workshop of the Film Form), a group of avant-garde artists who were
working at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz,
Poland, between 1970 and 1977. WWF was founded by the students and graduates of the
school, now known as the National Film School, and included: Wojciech Bruszewski, Pawe
Kwiek, Andrzej Rycki, Jzef Robakowski, Zbigniew Rybczyski, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Antoni
Mikoajczyk, Janusz Poom, and Ryszard Wako. As pioneers of video art in Poland and
structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe, the artists refused classical narrative and
traditional film media, working instead somewhere between cinematography and contemporary
art.

This publication examines all aspects of WFFs activity, from their films, photographic
experiments, video art, and performative actions to their teaching work, which includes previously
unexplored pedagogical contributions to the National Film School. Drawing on the private
archives and oral testimonies of the WWF, Workshop of the Film Form attempts to provide a full
account of the groups history as well as a comprehensive survey of each members practice. The
writers who were invited to respond to the WWF for this book provide insightful new readings of
the groups output and activities, contextualizing their work in the history of the pre-war Polish
avant-garde and the politics of experimental filmmaking in Poland under the rule of the Polish
United Workers Party (PZPR).

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Allan Sekula OKEANOS

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793370 Acqn 27622
Pb 17x24cm 280pp ills 20

Edited by Daniela Zyman, Cory Scozzari

Contributions by Nabil Ahmed, Keller Easterling, Carles Guerra Rojas, Celina Jeffery, Laleh
Khalili, Rosa Lle, Gabriele Mackert, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Allan Sekula, Sally Stein, Daniela
Zyman

This publication intersperses essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers with a selection of
Allan Sekulas seminal texts and excerpts from his private notebooks. The title is a reference to
Okeanosson of Gaia, the Greek goddess of the earthwho ruled over the oceans and water.
Made and written across the decades, Sekulas sketches and texts focus on maritime space and
the material, economic, and ecological implications of globalization. In projects such as his
magnum opus Fish Story (198995), or films like Lottery of the Sea (2006) and The Forgotten
Space (2010), Sekula provided a view from and of the sea. This publication expands on these
oceanic themes, seeking to honor the scope and complexity of the late artist-theorists work, and
situate his ideas in current political, social, and environmental discourses.

The book is divided thematically: the section Containerization focuses on the sea as a site of
infrastructural complication; Sekulas work Black Tide / Marea negra (20023) is also revisited,
which explores environmental violence and contamination as well as their social implications; a
selection from Sekulas personal drawings are accompanied by an essay by photo historian Sally
Stein; various essays readdress Sekulas legacy in the age of the Anthropocene; and a number of
case studies by contemporary artists, writers, and thinkers examine ideas that overlap with
Sekulas and expand on his interests.

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Contemporary Condition - The Delayed Present: Media-Induced Tempor(e)alities &

Techno-traumatic Irritations of the Contemporary
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793400 Acqn 27728
Pb 12x18cm 48pp 6.95

In the media theatre of contemporary culture, a drama unfolds: While the human sense of the
present is challenged by the immediacy of analog signal transmission and the delays of digital
data processing, a different (non-)sense of time unfolds within technologies themselves. At that
moment, human-related phenomenological analysis clashes with the media-archaeological close
reading of the technological event, in an impossible effort to let the temporeal articulate itself.

The Contemporary Condition series edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, Volume 04.

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Contemporary Condition - We Are Here, But Is It Now? Raqs Media Collective. (The
Submarine Horizons of Contemporaneity)
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793448 Acqn 27729
Pb 12x19cm 48pp 15ills 13col 6.95

It is said that we know more about far-away galaxies than we do about the bottom of the oceans
on earth. One could say something similar about our relationship to the future and to the
contemporary. The distant future can seem more familiar than the deep present. We know it will
come, regardless of whether or not we are around to witness it. Searching for the present is a bit
like deep sea diving. How to dive without drowning in the turbulent waters of now? How to find
and share sources of illumination in submarine darkness? When to surface and how to ride a
strong current? Why stay afloat on the present moment at all? And what to look for while
beachcombing the sea-floor of our time? These are some of the questions that Raqs Media
Collective address in their account of contemporaneity, guided by a motley collection of figures
lost and found in the turbulence of their practice.

The Contemporary Condition series edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, Volume 05.

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Contemporary Condition - Dexter Sinister. Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793455 Acqn 27730
Pb 12x19cm 64pp 12ills 6.95

Three interconnected palimpsest essays recount (1) the backstory of a meta font recently
updated by Dexter Sinister and used to typeset the Contemporary Condition book series, (2) a
broad history of the rationalization of letterforms that considers the same typeface from a higher
point of disinterest, and (3) a pending proposal for a sundial designed to operate in parallel
physical and digital realms. Along the way they contemplate the ambiguous nature of our shared
idea of *time* itself.

The Contemporary Condition series edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, Volume 06.

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The 2017 Abraaj Group Art Prize - seepage/ritual

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793257 Acqn 27731
Pb 19x23cm 136pp 52col ills 21

Contributions by Sarah Abu Abdallah, Doa Aly, Amino Belyamani, Rana Begum, Omar Berrada,
Milton Cruz, Raha Raissnia

Providing an important platform for new and ambitious work from the Middle East, North Africa,
and South Asia, the ninth installment of the Abraaj Group Art Prize features seepage/ritual, an
exhibition with the work of winner Rana Begum and the three short-listed artists: Sarah Abu
Abdallah, Doa Aly, and Raha Raissnia. Organized by guest curator Omar Berrada, the exhibition
explores a reconfiguration of our geometries of attention through a playful engagement with literal
geometry. As a companion, this publication is conceived as a parallel exhibition in book form, and
contains original interventions by and in collaboration with the artists.

seepage/ritual is published on the occasion of the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2017, Art Dubai,
Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, March 14-18, 2017.

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Otobong Nkanga - Luster And Lucre

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793189 Acqn 27734
Hb 21x28cm 280pp 135ills 122col 31

Edited by Clare Molloy, Philippe Pirotte, Fabian Schneich

Texts by Denise Ferreira da Silva, Natasha Ginwala, Clare Molloy, Otobong Nkanga, Philippe
Pirotte, Fabian Schneich

Otobong Nkangas first monograph, Luster and Lucre, charts an intensely productive period from
2013 to 2016, which includes exhibitions at the 8th Berlin Biennale; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main;
KADIST, Paris; and M HKA, Antwerp. Its title encapsulates the complex concerns that underpin
these shows: luster, the illustrious shining of materials; and lucre, profits and gains. With the
mineral mica as her starting point, Nkangas research took her to archives in Berlin, Strasbourg,
and Windhoek, and led her along a colonial railroad in Namibia to the historic Tsumeb mine. This
rich research became works that probe the ambivalence of that which shines: poems, intricate
drawings, modular sculptures that form systems of display, and performances that are both
gestural and dialogical.

With a foreword by Stdelschule director Philippe Pirotte, Luster and Lucre also contains the
essays The Refusal of Shine by curator Natasha Ginwala and Blacklight by scholar Denise
Ferreira da Silva, as well as Intricate Connections, an interview between Otobong Nkanga,
Clare Molloy, and Fabian Schneich. The volume also contains three exhibition-pamphlet inserts.

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