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Title: Disorder: Swiss Grit Volume II [Unit 54]Author, editor, designer: Chris AshworthForeword: Marvin Scott JarrettAfterword: Adrian ShaughnessyLimited edition Disorder: Swiss Grit Volume II is the first book dedicated to the career of Chris Ashworth, charting his ‘Swiss Grit’ approach from the influential Ray Gun magazine in the 1990s through to his experimental type projects of the present day. Ashworth sees his work – craft-based, handmade – as a counterpoint to our screen-dependent digital culture and this book is the manifestation of an alternative view which argues that creative development away from the computer offers unique and precious merits.  Thanks to the generous support of the 1,129 backers of our Volume campaign to crowdfund the publication of Disorder last year, we now have a limited number of copies of the original Unit Editions version of the book, for sale exclusively on

Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow.Architecture Against Architecture demands we rethink

Too many of our convictions about the fifty-four nations of Africa come from non-African sources. Western media often treat the continent as a simulacrum of Western anxieties. In contrast, Jeremy Harding focuses on specific historical episodes and cultural practices – cinema, art, ethnography and journalism – to steer

Interrogates how digital self-surveillance can be turned against us by police, prosecutors, and political whimsFor consumers living in a digitally-connected ...

The Post-Global City seeks to open a new field of analytical inquiry that examines knowledge production and technological developments in urban Africa rooted in local, historical realities, while also ...

Crypto, NFTs, meme stocks and other digital currency investments are seen as either a transparent Ponzi scheme or the future of finance. But what all of these n…

Au cours des années 2010 et 2020, aux États-Unis, une nouvelle contre-culture de droite radicale s’est développée sur internet.

In recent decades, self-proclaimed “independent bookstores” have arisen across China. In the West, such retailers represent an alternative to corporation... | CUP

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...

'A murdered mother's fight for truth and justice lives on through the words of her youngest son' Angelina Jolie 'A work of rare vividness and authority, devastatingly told' Financial Times When Paul Caruana Galizia was at work in London, his eldest brother called to say their mother Daphne had just been assassinated. That day, he returned to their native Malta and, with his two brothers and their father, began a quest to discover who was responsible for Daphne's murder and who stood to profit from ending the life of a journalist whose courage and determination threatened the powerful with the truth. Two years later, they did. A Death in Malta is more than an investigation into the life and assassination of Daphne by her son Paul. It's an examination of the globalisation of corruption and what it has done to a modern European country; it's about that country's escape from colonialism to another kind of arrogant power; it's a personal history of writing when the stakes are high and the intimidation is violent. Above all, it's a universal homage to mothers and their sons. 'A superbly honest and very painful account . . . A book that is unforgettable, beautifully written and deeply honest' John Simpson, Guardian

Hugues Jallon est formel : « C’est le temps où le fascisme commence à exister vraiment. Jusqu’alors, il n’était pas seulement contenu, il était seul. Et en politique, on n’y arrive jamais seul. Désormais, il faut se rendre à l’évidence : l’extrême droite n’est plus seule, elle est bien entourée. » 

In this era of progress, we have gone from being protectors of life on earth, to its greatest threat. One challenge we will confront in the next millennia …

From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust. In the “old” Gilded Age, the barons of business…

Andreas Malm*, auteur de L’anthropocène contre l’histoire : le réchauffement climatique à l’ère du capital (2017) ou de Comment saboter un pipeline (2020) a fait paraître en début d’année un petit ouvrage reprenant une conférence donnée à Beyrouth en avril 2024, qui met en é

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Bravo et merci à Christophe Granger et Sarah Rey pour ce livre qui vient de paraître chez La Découverte.

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"While we destroy the natural world around us, we have become masters of a stage-managed, artificial ‘experience’ of nature—a reassuring spectacle, an illusion." Over six years, across four continents, Zed Nelson has examined how we humans immerse ourselves in increasingly simulated environments to mask our destructive

Attached: 1 image Des hérétiques les plus célèbres du Moyen Âge, il ne reste rien, sauf les châteaux qu’on leur attribue à tort. Nous ne les connaissons qu’au travers de ce qu’en ont dit leurs détracteurs et leurs persécuteurs. Huit siècles de mythes, de falsifications, de récupérations que ce livre déjoue pour mieux rendre justice à ces milliers d’hommes et de femmes qui, du côté de Milan, Lyon, Toulouse ou Cologne, se trouvèrent pris dans les mailles du filet de l’Église et de l’État. https://lafabrique.fr/les-cathares-ennemis-de-linterieur/

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what s...

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human―and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of E...

The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and nonhuman intelligences. In , Hayles develops a new theory of mind—w...

Forsyth did away with the conventions of thriller-writing and still kept readers enthralled. He reset the whole genre, the author of the Jack Reacher novels writes

Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed "rise of the robots" really explain the worsening jobs crisis? In Automation and

What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The Eye of the Master argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the