Forthcoming
Sarah Horn
trans* WerdenQueere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs
Just Published
A World of PossibilitiesThe Legacy of The Undivine ComedyEd. by Kristina M. Olson
Just Published
Thinking Collectives / Collective ThinkingEd. by Eva Bentcheva
Annie Jael Kwan
Ming Tiampo
Just Published
PasoliniDialogues avec la France / Dialoghi con la FranciaEd. by Marco Antonio Bazzocchi
Paolo Desogus
Manuele Gragnolati
Anne-Violaine Houcke
Hervé Joubert-Laurencin
Davide Luglio
Just Published
Stella do Patrocínio
Falatório/ChatterEd. by Iracema Dulley
Marlon Miguel

 

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A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of The Undivine Comedy

Ed. by Kristina M. Olson

Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini’s The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic shift in reading Dante’s Commedia. Bringing together an international cadre of scholars, A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of ‘The Undivine Comedy’ illustrates the generative influence that Barolini’s approach has exerted across continents, disciplines, and generations. It testifies to the variety of interpretations that originate in her method, and opens new perspectives on Dante’s oeuvre and the significance of literature.

Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking

Ed. by Eva Bentcheva
Annie Jael Kwan
Ming Tiampo

Thinking Collectives/Collective Thinking delves into the dynamics of collective artistic practices, and looks in particular at histories, personal experiences, and theories in the context of global Asias. Featuring contributions from artists, curators, and activists, it focuses on the diverse contexts that shape both making and researching art. This ‘Companion’ book aims to bridge historical and theoretical knowledge with first-hand experiences and serves as a resource for a ‘worlded’ art history and contemporary practice.

Pasolini: Dialogues avec la France / Dialoghi con la Francia

Ed. by Marco Antonio Bazzocchi
Paolo Desogus
Manuele Gragnolati
Anne-Violaine Houcke
Hervé Joubert-Laurencin
Davide Luglio

Tout au long de son œuvre, Pasolini n’aura cessé de s’adresser à la France, de l’interpeller, et la France lui a répondu. De quelle France a-t-il parlé ou a-t-il rêvé ? Quels écrivains et cinéastes, quelle poésie, quelle langue et quelle théorie entrèrent dans sa vie, dans ses vers et dans ses images ? D’autre part, de quel Pasolini la France a-t-elle parlé et parle-t-elle encore ? De quoi est fait son rêve de Pasolini ? En interrogeant les formes de ce dialogue entre Pasolini et la France, qui fut et qui est encore aujourd’hui à la fois intellectuel, sensuel et résolument intranquil, ce volume montre l’étrange et inextinguible actualité de Pasolini.

Stella do Patrocínio

Falatório/Chatter

Ed. by Iracema Dulley
Marlon Miguel

Falatório/Chatter delves into the life and work of Stella do Patrocínio (1941–1992), who was confined in Rio de Janeiro’s Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric asylum from the age of twenty-one until her death. The unique form of relentless speech that Do Patrocínio produced while institutionalized was dismissed by doctors as mere ‘logorrhoea’. Yet her falatório is far more: a defiant and poetic act that resists erasure by psychiatry, racism, and patriarchy. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, this book presents transcriptions of Do Patrocínio’s chatter in Portuguese and English, amplifying her voice as a testament to survival, power, and resistance.

Forthcoming

Sarah Horn

trans* Werden: Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs

Das Buch trans* Werden. Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs widmet sich in einer medienwissenschaftlichen Analyse ausgewählten Videos von trans* Videobloggern, die ihre geschlechtlichen Transitionen in den 2010er Jahren auf YouTube dokumentieren. In selbstdokumentarischen Praktiken verbunden mit den Wirkungen des Testosterons auf die Körper offenbart sich trans* Sein als ein komplexes und ungewisses Werden, das in medialer Umgebung als queere Zeitlichkeit erfahrbar wird. Hierbei stehen die Effekte der Mediatisierung im Fokus der Analyse.

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