{"title":"Cultural Studies","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"drawing-in-drag-by-marie-duval-by-simon-grennan","title":"DRAWING IN DRAG BY MARIE DUVAL by Simon Grennan","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e225 x 296mm, 48 pages, full colour throughout, Hard Cover with insert, Perfect Bound, 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“In the collection at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, is an illustrated novel, published in 1877. Titled \u003cem\u003eThe Story of a Honeymoon\u003c\/em\u003e, the novel was written and illustrated by Charles H. Ross and Ambrose Clarke. Thousands of novels like it were produced in the period, as part of the first boom in popular mass entertainments – fashion, organised sport, smoking, tourism, day tripping, romance, musical theatre, comics and magazines. This period saw the birth of modern urban cultures of working-class leisure exemplified by the industrial city of Manchester.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Story of a Honeymoon\u003c\/em\u003e hides a compelling secret. Ambrose Clarke never existed. Rather, another illustrator was given cover by the invented name of Clarke. The artist drawing as this fictional man was a woman, Marie Duval. She was an actress and cartoonist known for her reckless comedic drawing style. As one of only a handful of women cartoonists in a male publishing environment, her work was habitually disguised, emasculated, overwritten and stolen. After her death, her male collaborators took the opportunity to erase her from history. They almost succeeded. In 2017, Simon Grennan identified Duval’s work in \u003cem\u003eThe Story of a Honeymoon\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time. Grennan has been instrumental in bringing Duval’s work back to public view. In \u003cem\u003eDrawing in Drag\u003c\/em\u003e by Marie Duval Grennan focuses on the manners and habits of twenty-first century mass leisure culture, plus its roots in the great cities of the nineteenth century. He adopts the pseudonym Marie Duval, producing drawings in drag, as a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSimon Grennan is an artist, graphic novelist and scholar of visual narrative. He is author of \u003cem\u003eA Theory of Narrative Drawing\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDispossession\u003c\/em\u003e, a graphic adaptation of a novel by Anthony Trollope (one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2015). He is co-author, with Roger Sabin and Julian Waite, of \u003cem\u003eMarie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMarie Duval and the Marie Duval Archive\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor, with Laurence Grove, of \u003cem\u003eTransforming Anthony Trollope: Dispossession, Victorianism and 19th century word and image\u003c\/em\u003e. Since 1990, he has been half of international artists team Grennan \u0026amp; Sperandio producer of hundreds of public engagement projects and over forty comics and books.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Works","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41886122705126,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/products\/IMG_0004.jpg?v=1634664368"},{"product_id":"double-lives-in-art-and-pop-music-by-jrg-heiser","title":"DOUBLE LIVES IN ART AND POP MUSIC by Jörg Heiser","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e15 x 23 cm, 350 pages, Colour printed, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhy did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use the skills she developed in the artistic avant-garde in pop music, and what in turn drew John Lennon to visual art? Why, in 1980s West Germany, did Joseph Beuys record a pop single and artists such as Walter Dahn, Albert and Markus Oehlen, and Michaela Melián form bands? What role does utopia play in the pop music and art of Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, and Fatima Al Qadiri? And, vice versa, did dystopias of transgressive imagery and noise lead the artist group COUM Transmissions to make music as Throbbing Gristle?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDouble Lives in Art and Pop Music\u003c\/em\u003e, Jörg Heiser argues that context shifting between art and pop music is an attempt to find solutions for contradictions faced in one field of cultural production. Ever since Duchamp’s readymade und Hugo Ball’s sound poetry, the definition of art has widened and dissolved to a point where nearly anything geared toward an art audience can be considered an artwork. Today it has become convention to praise art as a way of questioning conventions, not least in regard to conventional borders between disciplines, media, and genres. However, heroic claims of dissolving borders have become a way of kicking at doors that are already wide open—in a political and economic environment defined by neoliberal deregulation and flexibilization geared toward new markets, and permeating every social and cultural sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIt has thus become increasingly important to discuss the relationship between different fields of cultural production. This book does just that, looking closely at the careers of artists and pop musicians who work in both fields professionally. Historically, these figures provoked cognitive dissonance, but the seeming acceptance and effortlessness today of current border crossings can be deceptive, since they might be serving vested economic or ideological interests. Exploring the intertwined histories of pop and art from the 1960s to the present, Heiser shows that those leading double lives in art and pop music may often be best able to detect these vested interests while pointing toward radical alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41886127718630,"sku":"","price":23.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/products\/IMG_8075.jpg?v=1634664525"},{"product_id":"carceral-capitalism-by-jackie-wang","title":"CARCERAL CAPITALISM by Jackie Wang","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e115 x 180mm, 360 pages, Black \u0026amp; white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eEssays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police?—from \u003cem\u003eCarceral Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” as well as essays on \u003cem\u003eRoboCop\u003c\/em\u003e, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of governance often involve physical confinement and the state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends to bleed into society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41886130569446,"sku":"","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/products\/IMG_8244.jpg?v=1634664579"},{"product_id":"a-divided-reader-what-the-fire-sees-by-various-artists","title":"A DIVIDED READER – WHAT THE FIRE SEES by Various Artists","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e216 x 139mm, 232 pages, black and white, perfect bound, softcover, 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eA collection of anti-capitalist poetry, philosophy, cultural analysis, legal studies, manifesto and critique spanning 1996 to the present by Alenka Zupančič, Alexander Kluge, Amy Ireland, Anne Boyer, Aurelia Guo, Bini Adamczak, Carolyn Lazard, Chi Chi Shi, Denis Ekpo, Feminist Judgments Project, Gili Tal, Houria Bouteldja, Huw Lemmey, Keziah Craven, Marina Vishmidt, Nat Raha, Sarah Lamble, Teflon and Vanessa Place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePreface:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDivided was incorporated in 2018. There were two books that drove this decision: Ian White’s \u003cem\u003eHere Is Information. Mobilise.\u003c\/em\u003e and Douglas Crimp’s \u003cem\u003eBefore Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e (both 2016). Both transcribe unvalidated states and formations, which makes you feel a different life is plausible, because it is in fact already here, unvalidated. Reading this writing, you sink into its rhythm and then keep searching for it. The rhythm was the message. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat the fire sees, the vision of the thing that produces light, is a primal thought and a reverse perspective. Wanting to know outcomes in advance – desiring a guarantee before the show – is a conservative position as it can only rely on established systems of value. Old modes, old institutions guarantee one’s legibility while breaking intuition. Forecasting is precisely the opposite of politics and what we believe is important in shared work: a risk taken together because things can be done differently. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThen how can difference not be a consumer choice? Conflicting positions are not a form of entertainment or titillation to be leveraged. Instead they make a case for what it means to remain torn, complex, unconsolidated, and for that not to be contrary to social cohesion. In this book, we are trying to make an architecture like this, with no world-building aspiration. The market singles one out as a consumer only, harnesses desire and makes it personal. It’s a sham and a bad rehearsal: desire is not connected to any single choice, it functions in the mutual realm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSontag’s advice to a writer was to find a limb and go out on it. This was a way of speaking about form. 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Jarman was responsible for the Art Ensemble’s signature face paint and elaborate costumes as well as the pioneering theatrical and multimedia elements of their shamanistic performances, which could include dance, comedy, performance art, surreal pranks, and—notably—the recitation of Jarman’s poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn 1977, Art Ensemble of Chicago Publishing Co. published Jarman’s \u003cem\u003eBlack Case Volume I and II: Return From Exile\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of writing conceived across America and Europe between 1960 and 1975. Comprised largely of Jarman’s flowing, fiery free verse—influenced by Amus Mor, Henry Dumas, Thulani Davis, and Amiri Baraka—the book also features a manifesto for “GREAT BLACK MUSIC,” notated songs, concert program notes, Jarman’s photos, and impressions of a play by Muhal Richard Abrams, the founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians of which Jarman was also an original member. Jarman writes poetry of personal revolutionary intent, aimed at routing his audience’s consciousness towards growth and communication. He speaks with compassionate urgency of the struggles of growing up on Chicago’s South Side, of racist police brutality and profound urban alienation, and of the responsibility he feels as a creative artist to nurture beauty and community through the heliocentric music that he considers the healing force of the universe. A practicing Buddhist and proponent of Aikido since a 1958 awakening saved him from the traumatic mental isolation of his time dropped by the US army into southeast Asia, Jarman sings praise for the self-awareness realization possible through the martial arts. With cosmic breath as its leitmotif, his poetry both encourages and embodies a complete relinquishing of ego. While some of the poems contained within \u003cem\u003eBlack Case \u003c\/em\u003ehave already been immortalized via performances on classic records by Jarman and Art Ensemble of Chicago, its republication in print form breathes new life into a forgotten document of the Black Arts Movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Joseph Jarman, a musician of rare poetic gifts, was also a remarkable poet. \u003cem\u003eBlack Case\u003c\/em\u003e, a lost treasure of the Black Arts Movement, combines protest against injustice with heart-breaking introspection and fierce commitment to the Great Black Music tradition to which Jarman contributed with gentle yet mighty force.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e—Adam Shatz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Joseph’s recitation of ‘Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City’ (from \u003cem\u003eBlack Case\u003c\/em\u003e) moved me to set the words of this poem for Baritone Voice and Orchestra and became part of the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s standard repertoire. 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Black Case is all and everything in this regard. ‘Whats to say,’ he says, is that ‘we sing because\/we love you\/because we\/love you\/because\/we love\/you.’ We are loved beyond judgment by the music, he says, and we say thanks.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e—Fred Moten’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blank Forms","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41886137516262,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/products\/01_D_9c32cc49-8fd8-4bc3-bfdb-be6001305790.jpg?v=1634664714"},{"product_id":"bud-book-manual-for-earthly-living-by-laura-gustafsson-and-terike-haapoja","title":"BUD BOOK: MANUAL FOR EARTHLY LIVING by Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e150mm x 210mm, 182 pages, full colour offset printing throughout, perfect bound with wraparound cover, 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWriter and playwright Laura Gustafsson and visual artist Terike Haapoja began their collaboration in 2012, wherein they examine history and society from a non-anthropocentric viewpoint. ‘Bud Book’ coincides with “Becoming” (2020), a video work that explores emerging approaches to oneself, others, and the world. 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The first volume of its kind to provide an overview of the theme of research within contemporary curating, Curating Research marks a new phase in developments of the profession globally. 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In multilayered video installations, sequences of images are forced into the same time and space, allowing the viewer to experience connections in her\/his\/their present. 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Developments such as the changing status of the European Union, migration, and the wider repercussions of globalization have posed numerous social and political challenges. Instead of recognizing and valuing these challenges, there is a growing tendency to retreat into fixed ideas of culture and cultural divides. This book celebrates the capacity of individuals and small groups to contribute to social change through culture and art. It is a source of inspiration for renegotiating our understanding of the world and affirming culture as a critical space to practice courage and perseverance amid complex societal reconfigurations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eCourageous Citizens focuses on those whose daring, sharing, and inventing contribute to our collective future, and for whom culture and democracy are the starting points for vision and action. 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It provides rigorous and accessible analyses of \u003cem\u003ewhy we might want to abolish the police\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ewhat abolishing them would involve\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ehow it might be achieved\u003c\/em\u003e, introducing readers to the rich existing traditions of anti-police theory and practice\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIts authors draw on their diverse on-the-ground experiences of political organising, protest, and resistance to policing in the UK, France, Germany, and the United States, as well as their original research in academic fields ranging from law to security studies, political theory to sociology to public health.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWithout assuming any prior specialist knowledge, they present the critical tools and insights these disciplines have to offer to ongoing struggles against the injustices of policing (and consider, in turn, what these disciplines must learn from these struggles.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThey examine the police’s history to understand its role in constructing today’s profoundly unequal and crisis-ridden social order. 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And they engage with concrete alternatives for preventing and responding to harms (such as sexual abuse and intimate partner violence – which police claim to deal with but in fact further entrench) in ways that move beyond the logic of crime and punishment and towards visions of justice that are both social and transformative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/humanities\/departments\/philosophy\/people\/koshka.duff\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKoshka Duff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e is a lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Nottingham and campaigns against police strip search abuse.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/humanities\/departments\/philosophy\/people\/koshka.duff\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCat Sims\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e is a Birmingham-based illustrator.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eGuy Aitchison, Phe Amis, Melanie Brazzell, Eddie Bruce-Jones, Tanzil Chowdhury, Becka Hudson, Tom Kemp, Sarah Lamble, Daniel Loick, Chris Rossdale, Arianne Shahvisi, Vanessa E. 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Engaging a vibrant constellation of thought that includes the work of Amilcar Cabral, Erica Edwards, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney, Hortense Spillers and many others, Harney and Moten seek to share and understand that preference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn so doing, Moten and Harney hope to have forged what Manolo Callahan, echoing Ivan Illich, calls a convivial tool that – despite the temptation to improve and demand, develop and govern, separate and grasp – helps us renew our habits of assembly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll Incomplete features the work of award winning photographer Zun Lee, exploring and celebrating the everyday spaces of Black sociality, intimacy, belonging, and insurgency, and a preface by Denise Ferreira da Silva.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStefano Harney and Fred Moten are authors of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Fred teaches at New York University. 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The book also has a completely new design by Partner \u0026amp; Partners. We could not be happier that a new generation of readers will finally get to see this book, and that longtime fans who have worn out their original copies will be able to have this fresh, expanded edition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn 2001, the group Temporary Services invited their friend Angelo, a prisoner in California, to write about and draw the different things he had seen other prisoners invent. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngelo illustrated everything from immersion heaters with electrical plugs made from razor blades, paper clips, and popsicle sticks, to cooking methods for bologna jerky on built-in cell light fixtures. 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