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05/07/2024

ANIMALS BY FELICIA ATKINSON AVAIL NOW ON PLANISPHERE.EU/SHOP

Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.

Animals is the third novel by Felicia Atkinson, following Twenties Are Gone (2012) and Improvising sculpture as delayed fictions (2014). Somehow, Felicia Atkinson is asking herself what is the feeling of passing the beginning of a century on the passenger’s seat whereas it is experienced through reading, writing, while she is traveling by train or by car, scrolling informations on a computer, and its consequences on one own’s perception of a particular landscape. Or, even how to behave in a mundane context. Can a lake shape a relationship? Can a train be an office? How to deal with neighbors? When to act? When to stop? Can the words mean the same thing all the time? What is duration? How to feel specificity inside a crowd? Through simple words in English (Atkinson is a French native speaker) in the rhythm of an echoing monologue punctuated by black and white paper cut-outs, the author finds her way through the book with an ambiguous mixture of “nonchalance” and attention. Animals is a train ride, an experience of time brushed by the fugitive landscapes and the indistinct noises all around.
Limited edition of 200 copies.
 
published in April 2016

English edition
14 x 21 cm (softcover)
160 pages (b/w ill.)

08/06/2024

Radical Futurisms - Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come available now on planisphere.eu/shop

There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerging from the traditions of the oppressed—Indigenous, African-American, multispecies, anti-capitalist—as materialized in experimental visual cultural, new media, aesthetic practices, and social movements, T. J. Demos poses speculative questions about what comes after end-of-world narratives. He argues that it’s as vital to defeat fatalistic nihilism as it is to defeat the false solutions of green capitalism and algorithmic governance. How might we decolonize the future, and cultivate an emancipated chronopolitics in relation to an undetermined not-yet? If we are to avoid climate emergency’s cooptation by technofixes, and the defuturing of multitudes by xenophobic eco-fascism, Demos argues, we must cultivate visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing. February 2023, English 15×21.5 cm, 224 pages, 40 color and 1 b/w ill., softcover ISBN 978-3-95679-527-5 DESIGN Keith Dodds

14/05/2024

PLASTIC PULSE [Limited Edition] - EZRA MILLER available on planisphere.eu/shop In the wake of so many dramatic shifts in memory and its depictions, Ezra Miller stands as a dystopian heir to the Art of Memory. Starting with images he gathers in daily life, the artist implements a process of deformation, creasing the code that makes up the surface of his images, fanning out near-infinite prospects from the source image to reach a delicate balance between photography and its altered material. —Nicolas Giraud The whole world is only a virtuality that currently exists only in the folds of the soul which convey it, the soul implementing inner pleats through which it endows itself with a representation of the enclosed world. We are moving from inflection to inclusion in a subject, as if from the virtual to the real, inflection defining the fold, but inclusion defining the soul or the subject, that is, what envelops the fold, its final cause and its completed act. —Gilles Deleuze, The Fold, tr. Tom Conley There is no looking at Ezra Miller’s photographs, only looking through them, passing through their algorithmically creased surface. What is made out there is not merely things seen, but recollections to come, the bits and pieces of a floating, shared memory. —Nicolas Giraud Credits
Images: Ezra MillerText: Nicolas GiraudDesign: Bureau KayserTranslation: Jeffrey Zuckermann

05/04/2024

AFRICA-ARCTIC FLYWAY PHYSIOCRATIC STATES available now on planisphere.eu/shop

Edited by ELISA R. LINN, LENNART WOLFFForeword by EVE VATERLAUS & JOAN WALTEMATH What if art holds solutions to the ecological crises of our time? For forty-six years, Peter Fend has argued that art premonitions material culture, therefore the means of production, ensuing changes in social relations. Hence, in his view, works by Marcel Duchamp, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Beth Edelson, Paul Sharits, and others, can prefigure ecological restoration and cohabitation. In the late 1970s, artists in New York initiated teams—first Colab, The Offices, and later Ocean Earth and Space Force—to move from critique into effecting real-world change. Initiatives came from Jenny Holzer, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Taro Suzuki, Joan Waltemath, and Eve Vaterlaus, among others, who linked up with scientists to produce reports and analyses with satellite imagery for news media. Africa-Arctic Flyway: Physiocratic States gathers documents of Peter Fend’s efforts through Ocean Earth for a planet organized according to hydrology—water basins—rather than national and colonial borders. It lays out tools and technologies derived from art, architecture, and science to replace fossil fuels, dams, nuclear industry, and industrial farming. The ensuing proposal for governance builds on what is identified as the first school of economic thought: physiocracy. Here, via satellite-aided eco-taxation, governance pursues an increase in the numbers of fish, marine mammals, migratory birds, and insects. For instance, ideas from Earth art are applied to restoring wetlands and flyways in three swaths—the Americas, East Asia, and Eurafrica—converging on the Arctic. This book focuses on the Eur­africa flyway and surveys four decades of work. It asks, “How do we go from visual art to reality?” Fend answers: “Through architecture.” September 2022, English 17×24 cm, 256 pages, 91 color ill., softcover ISBN 978-3-95679-632-6 DESIGN Dan Solbach COPUBLISHERS Museo Nivola, Orani

21/02/2024

The World Is On Fire But We’re Still Buying Shoes available at planisphere.eu/shop

Former Highsnobiety Style Editor and founder of Instagram account , Alec Leach examines why we continue to buy so many clothes, despite all we know about fashion and its impact on the planet. With behind-the-scenes insights and philosophical musings supported by infographics and magazine-style pull quotes, Leach takes readers on a journey through the inner workings of consumerism and online culture, touching on sneaker hype, greenwashing and mindfulness along the way. The result is a manifesto for a slower, more intentional relationship with fashion, one that’s better for us and better for the planet, too. 15 × 20 cm, softcover 2022 ISAN: 9781736667613