Literary Nonfiction. Art. INSTITUTIONAL GARBAGE is an experimental publication that endeavors to grasp the memory, feeling, and trace of an online exhibition that took place in the fall of 2016. The online exhibition presented the administrative res...
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Poetry. New lyric poetry by Rachel Galvin explores an ethical response to American comfort and its ties to war and exploitation. The poems in this collection reflect on news reporting, natural disasters, journalist safety, and the act of observing w...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Introduction by Jane Blocker. 2nd Edition. THE BRIGHTEST THING IN THE WORLD: 3 LECTURES FROM THE INSTITUTE OF FAILURE is a collection of essays that touch on seating strategies, Dick Cheney, cuckoo clocks, the Fibonacci ...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. SHADOWED! confronts the slippage of time and action within Ellen Rothenberg's exhibition elsetime. Sweeping through the studio of Bertolt Brecht, Woodstock in the sixties, Berlin in the nineties, and the Syrian protests of ...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Environmental Studies. Philosophy. Vegetal life forms are banal in their ubiquity. Undeniably alive, yet silent, they creep upwards, their roots submerged and out of human sight. Like anarchists protesting order, we...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. NOTES ON is an a-chronological studio diary that artist Magalie Guérin re-transcribed twice by hand and now in print. Through that active facsimile Guérin documents her painting process, mapping at once her creative history...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "In these strange, open-eyed, open-hearted, beautiful poems, there is nowhere to stand, or there is everywhere specific. I feel as if I am looking at Borges' aleph: sacred mutating representatives of every category—wea...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Film. Ecology. THE NEW [NEW] CORPSE explores current representations of the body in which the human figure appears fragmented, distorted, or emphatically absent in a carefully curated selection of poetry, translatio...
Art. Design. DIDACTICS by Sonnenzimmer (the Chicago-based art studio of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi) is a collection of two out of print self-released artists' publications combined anew. Pairing Warp and Weft: Poster Construction (2012) and F...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Introduced by Matthew Scott. DIAGRAMS is a book that collects 49 diagram drawings made between 2009 and 2014, and includes a conversation-based essay between the artists and the Canadian math scholar, Matthew Scott. These d...
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. At the intersection of feminism, science fiction, and disco, MOTHERNISM aims to locate the mother-shaped hole in contemporary art discourse. If the proverbial Mother is perhaps perceived as a persona non grata i...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Philosophy. Critical Theory. Ecology. Bilingual Edition. Translations from the French by Jean-François Caro, Jeanne Trombetta and Sophian Bourire. Introduction by Érik Bullot. Written contributions from Timothy Morton, Grah...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Urban Studies. Psychogeography. In 2010, Chicago-based artist Hui-min Tsen led a series of free, guided tours through the Chicago Pedway—a circuitous and ever-changing route of indoor passageways throughout Chicago's downto...
Literary Nonfiction. Art Criticism & Theory. Introduction by Carol Becker. Over the course of the 20th century artists have sought to engage aesthetic and social potential latent in traditionally non-artistic sites. Such endeavors seek to activate b...