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"Architecturally speaking, the term "greenhouse" refers to buildings designed to optimally protect, cultivate and propagate plants under conditions that artificially reproduce their environments of origin. Employed successfully over centuries, these transparent microcosms have allowed some nations to improve their scientific knowledge, provide botanical education and develop horticultural innovations. Parallel to the benefits they brought with them, greenhouses have also had (and still have) harmful consequences on the way we relate to others, both humans and other-than-humans, and the environments we co-inhabit with them. Shifting away from the celebration of greenhouses as technical mastery and exceptional architectural feats, Greenhouse Stories is an invitation to critically look at greenhouses as controversial (agri)cultural production tools. Re-examining them from a social, historical, environmental and creative perspective, the essays and interviews featured in this book highlight stories of vegetal displacement, colonial appropriation and pollution. Yet they also help us to understand that greenhouses can be fertile spaces for women's empowerment and the nurturing of socially-engaged and eco-conscious projects. At a time of great anthropocentric pressure on the planet, we believe that questioning the greenhouse as a symbol and a tool can help us re-establish more humble and meaningful connections with the Earth and its living communities."--Page 4 of cover.

Entanglement or extractivism? Historical and contemporary writings on how we relate to the world and to each other, from Roland Barthes and Ursula K. Le Guin to Sara Ahmed and Sophie LewisWhat kind of relationship do we foster with the material world? Do we see it only as a resource to plunder or can we find ways of being in kinship with it? And how are these opposed modes of relating reflected in our personal relationships? The Material Kinship Reader reckons with the extractivist histories of materials and the social relations that frame contemporary life. Spanning fiction and theory, colonial conquest and climate collapse, the texts gathered here tell toxic and tender stories of interdependence among all things animate and inanimate.Contributors include: Sara Ahmed, Hana Pera Aoake, Roland Barthes, Joannie Baumgärtner, Heather Davis, Kris Dittel, Clementine Edwards, Ama Josephine B. Johnstone, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sophie Lewis, Steven Millhauser, Jena Myung, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Michelle Murphy, Ada M. Patterson, Kim TallBear and Michelle Tea.

The first issue of this new journal examines the building block of the digital image: the pixelExamining the pixel from a technical, ethical, artistic and economic perspective, with essays from visual artists, engineers, art historians, computer scientists and designers, this first issue of Resolution will be of great interest to graphic-design professionals.

Mocking self-entrepreneurship and exploring the miseries of precarity, this biting new book identifies the aesthetics of productive anxietyIn this pocket-sized paperback volume, Italian writer and conceptual artist Silvio Lorusso guides us through this era of the "entreprecariat," or the relationship between entrepreneurship and precarity. The precariat class consists of those whose working lives are comprised of disjointed bits, lacking financial or professional stability. In our entreprecarious society, everyone is an entrepreneur and nobody is stable. Through analyses of memes, photographs and advertisements, Lorusso explores tensions surrounding labor, productivity, autonomy and failure while dissecting the media objects that encourage a precarious lifestyle. Precarious economic conditions demand an entrepreneurial attitude, while entrepreneurialism breeds instability and change; thus, entreprecarity is characterized by a cognitive dissonance. Lorusso weaponizes irony and sarcasm in order to shift our collective understanding of work ethic, labor, leisure, production and competition.

An experimental monograph that explores Nathaniel Mellors's linguistic manipulation ; absurdist comedy and aspects of video ; sculpture ; performance and critical writing interwoven in his work. Featuring a selection of his original scripts from 2006 onward that have since been developed into video and installation works ; including Ourhouse (2010) and Brain One-Mózg Jeden (2006). Contributions by artist and writer Mick Peter and art critic John C. Welchman.

Modes of Criticism is an annual critical design journal, created in the context of francisco Laranjos continued research and teaching at the London College of Communication. Loranjo has sought to develop design methods for a critical design practice with attention to the emergence of recent technology driven terminology such as critical design, design fiction, and speculative design within graphic design. Modes of Criticism addresses these gaps in design discourse in relation to these terms, their history, methods, and criticism. It examines what is meant by criticality in design, and works toward the politicization of its discourse and practice. For issue 3, the subject matter evolves around the effects of global design aesthetics on individual ideas and creativity. Selected essays expand on the premise with contributions from els Kuijpers, design critic, lecturer, and curator in the field of culture and visual communication (nL); Angela Mitropoulos, Sydney-based theorist and academic; Laura Gordon, designer, researcher, and educator of visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, London, and co-founder of Crowd Talks; Decolonising Design Group, eight design researchers, artists, and activists founded in 2016; Silvio Lorusso, designer and artist based in Rotterdam (nL); Luke Pendrell, head of visual Communication at the School of Art, University of Brighton (UK); and James Trafford, senior professor in Critical Approaches to Art & Design at the University for the Creative Arts, epsom (UK). Francisco Laranjo extensively lectures around the world, recently at Cal Arts, valencia, California, besides publishing his writings in The New Yorker (October 2017).

A plea for Black self-emancipation and political action from Nigerian actor Bode OwaThis collection of short stories, commentaries on existential fear, opinions and poems by Nigerian-born, Antwerp-based actor, playwright and musician Bode Owa express the desire to dismantle the structural tools keeping Black peoples in penury.

The phenomenon of bootyfication exists in many contexts, as varied as the exploitation of the body in colonialism to 90s hip-hop culture. Post-Butt analyses the virility of images in our mediated society. More rounded than that though, it's a case study around the image of female butts, bootys, and behinds, and their influence in media, society and art.Post-Butt travels through different periods in time and place to analyse the political meanings associated with the representation of the female buttocks. It then goes on to discuss the role of the booty in various cultural expressions such as film, internet art, music videos, dance and plastic surgery. Deep inside, Post-Butt aims to reflect on how our society is conditioned by viral images that do not only exist in the digital context, and by offering more grounding to the virality of the image,it acknowledges a body-positivity beyond the hypes of the ages.