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IN THE FACE OF WAR
by Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko

in partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre
Afterwords by Nan Goldin and Timothy Snyder & Yuval Noah Harari

 

 

THE ARCHIPELAGO CONVERSATIONS
by Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Foreword by Trinh T. Minh-ha

 

https://032c.com/magazine/edouard-glissant-and-hans-ulrich-obrist

 

 

STREET COP
by Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman

in conversation

 

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/street-cop-and-cartoon-controversies-a-conversation-with-art-spiegelman/

 

 

F LETTER: NEW RUSSIAN FEMINIST POETRY
ed. by Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Ainsley Morse

Forewords by Eileen Myles and Amia Srinivasan

 

https://time.com/5908168/russia-feminist-poets-protest/

 

 

SALMON: A RED HERRING
by Cooking Sections

Forewords by Hannah Landecker, Bruno Latour, Hans Ulrich Obrist and David Zilber

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/apr/04/salmon-art-duo-cooking-sections-booming-1bn-tate

 

 

FROM THE EDITORS

The humanism of the past five hundred years is dead. Believing man was exceptional, it opened the abyss of extinction. A new approach is needed to establish the commonality of all life on Earth. This is not just the task of politics and philosophy. It requires the effort of all those who tear down convention in order to preserve what is meaningful. That is, the preservation not just of environments, but myth, irrationality, autonomy, and joy—whether by direct or poetic means. New islands—of thought, literature, art—are already emerging. We find these points of orientation, mapping a scattered community that spans continents and disciplines. To represent a world of many worlds, not a globe.

 

Our books revive the extinct genre of isolarii—the ‘island books’ that emerged at the start of the Renaissance. Bound together were poems, stories, and artworks—each a supposed island, a space that held a singular idea. We take up this genre-bending format to navigate the turbulence of our times. Each book is a ready-to-hand island. Together, they are a growing archipelago. Islands from which to view the world anew.

 

https://isolarii.com/

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