Cart

Your cart is currently empty.
Series
News
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_BERLIN

Planetary Realism

Josephine Berry will be in conversation with Martin Conrads to talk about her recent book Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse

The devastation left in the wake of modernity and globalization is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet, and humanity has awakened to a new real. If the old “realist” tools of objectivism have contributed to capitalist society’s divorce from the natural world, how are artists finding new ways to make us really see—and feel—the planet?

Surveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices, and activism, Josephine Berry investigates art’s power to break with capitalist realism and decarbonize the imagination. With chapters on feeling as world-making, the rupture of petroleum landscapes, artists’ urban exodus, and migration as survival, Planetary Realism delves deeply into art’s necessary reimagining of life on Earth.

 

Friday 12 September, 7.30pm.

Pro qm,Almstadtstraße 48, 10119 Berlin.

 

More information can be found here. Free and open to the public.

 

BOOK FAIR_LONDON

Stems Book Fair

Sternberg Press is pleased to announce its participation in Stems, a new book fair hosted by the Helen Marten Studio.

The fair will be open on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 July, from 11–6pm. A program of readings curated by Eve Esfandiari-Denney and Thea McLachlan will take place at the fair on Sunday 20 July from 6pm.

Saturday 19 – Sunday 20 July, 11am-6pm

Address: Helen Marten Studio, 55 Laburnum St, E2 8BD

Free entry and no RSVP required.

BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_VIENNA

The White West

Ana Teixeira Pinto will be in conversation with Felix Stalder, to discuss The White West: Fascism, Unreason and the Paradox of Modernity, as part of a two-day event held at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. A special lecture by Ana Teixeira Pinto will follow on Thursday, June 12 at 6pm.

Ever since neofascist movements began to surge across the globe, liberal commentators have tried to put a name to what they are defending from these illiberal ideologies. The consensus is reason or rationality––after the Second World War, mainstream scholarship has supported the view that adherence to fascism is a thing of unreason. This distinction between reason and unreason, a tenet of Enlightenment thought, sustains the universal appeal of liberal democracy but leaves unexamined the paradoxes that haunt modernity, particularly its colonial foundation, thus obscuring the continuities between fascism and imperial policies. The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity contends that, without confronting the structuring force of race in the production and reproduction of global wealth disparities, fighting for reason only leads to flawed utopias in which a critique or disruption of capitalism is easily inflected in the direction of neofascism. This collection of writing by leading historians, theorists, and scholars engages the overlaps between philosophical predicates and colonial legacies, as well as the undertheorized continuities between fascism and settler colonialism.

With contributions by Larne Abse Gogarty, Norman Ajari, Ramon Amaro, Sladja Blazan, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Donna V. Jones, Nitzan Lebovic, Olivier Marboeuf, A. Dirk Moses, Rijin Sahakian, Nikhil Pal Singh, Kerstin Stakemeier, and Felix Stalder.

Wednesday 11 June, 6pm
University of Applied Arts, Vienna 

More information about the event can be found here.

Free entry and open to the public.

Best Sellers