A rich and engaging book, HEXEN 2039: New Military-Occult Technologies for Psychological Warfare; A Rosalind Brodsky Research Programme is part artist's monograph and part chilling premonition of the future, echoing the world of graphic novels and computer games.
Contemporary art in a nutshell (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and vibrant spectrum of the work that has shaped the art world in recent years. Featured artists include: Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, John Currin, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra, Douglas Gordon, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Sharon Lockhart, Won Ju Lim, Paul McCarthy, Mariko Mori, Sarah Morris, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Albert Oehlen, Chris Ofili, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Elizabeth Peyton, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Luc Tuymans, Jeff Wall, and Andrea Zittel.
HEXEN 2.0 is the sequel to HEXEN 2039, which imagined new technologies for psychological warfare through investigating links between the occult and the military in relation to histories of witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing and behaviour control experiments of the US Army.
HFT The Gardener extends Treister's fascination with esoteric translation, the cybernetics of consciousness, and the hallucinatory aesthetics that radiate from real-world circulations of power.
"Populism Reader accompanies Populism, an exhibition project in four European cities (Vilnius, Oslo, Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main) exploring the relationships between contemporary art and current populist cultural and political trends. Conceived as an anthology, the publication comprises essays covering various aspects and approaches to the populist experience. The book is designed by M/M (Paris) and illustrated by Atelier Van Lieshout; contributions stem from amongst others activists, journalists, art critics, philosophers and political scientists. The Populism Reader goes beyond academic styles in order to respond to historical and current aspects of the populist experience, as they surface in relation to art, activism, the role of the intellectual, political desires, religion and other issues"--Publisher's website
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“Science is a tool to think with, just like art…” This publication contains transcriptions of conversations between the artist Alexandra Hunts and Charles M. Marcus, professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Roland Barthes famously wrote: “Interdisciplinarity consists in creating a new object that belongs to no one.” This epistemological homelessness echoes through both Hunts’ and Marcus’s immigrant condition, and the histories of 20th-century art and science.
Christopher Miller, un millionnaire de 28 ans, est un expert en narcissisme et moquerie à Londres. Lucie Martinez, styliste de 24 ans, a lutté pour réussir à Nice. Leurs mondes, totalement opposés, ne devraient jamais se croiser. Pourtant, un accident causé par le petit frère de Lucie va tout bouleverser. Christopher découvre que l'incident lui offre un moyen de pression sur Lucie, et il n'hésite pas à lui proposer un chantage odieux : 134 faveurs de douce torture. Jusqu'où ira-t-il dans ses demandes ? Lucie sera-t-elle prête à tout accepter ? Leurs interactions sont marquées par une tension palpable. Christopher, conscient de son charme, semble prendre plaisir à troubler Lucie. Malgré son insupportable caractère, il parvient à la déstabiliser, la poussant à reconnaître son attirance. Lucie, bien qu'attirée, lutte contre ses sentiments, consciente des dangers que représente cet homme. Elle sait que céder à ses avances serait une erreur monumentale, mais la proximité et le regard de Christopher compliquent sa résistance. En moins de 48 heures, il a déjà perturbé sa vie, et elle craint ce que l'avenir lui réserve.