After 8 Books / Publication Studio Paris

Judith, an academic celebrity, and Wendy, a slightly less famous academic celebrity, fall in love. They break up. In her ensuing grief, Wendy finds herself in a pornographic, epistolary haze that slumps toward the narrative. Fueled by the only things that cut through the pain—sex and democratic theory—Wendy takes us along on her wild ride toward self-actualization.
In Claire Star Finch’s first novel, love and the void question each other in action.

Just what is it that makes today’s crafts so different, so appealing?
In Craft, he offers an insightful, unconventional and generous reflection on the exchanges between arts, crafts, and design – questioning along the way arbitrary divisions between the head and the hand, practice and theory, craftsman and artist.
Discussing with fellow curator Véronique Bacchetta his own curatorial methods and meditating on the power of display, Trembley unfolds his research on Japanese folk art, as well as his collaborations with various artists.
As he comments on the groundbreaking approach of curators such as Georges Henri Rivière, Sōetsu Yanagi, or Lina Bo Bardi, and evokes landmarks in the history of exhibition making – from curiosity cabinets to world fairs, to ethnographic dioramas, window displays, and experiments by contemporary artists – Trembley argues against pre-established hierarchies, for a more complex approach to objects, cultures, and forms.

This collection of writings by artist and cultural critic Dena Yago, founder of K-HOLE, retraces more than a decade of reflections on the creative economy, its lures and failures, as well as many other topics such as AirSpace, Billie Eilish, LARPing, free food, ketamine, Elliot Smith, murals, precariat, poetry and the internet. Yago's writing dares to dig into the contradictions of lives under the sugarcoated deals of the attention economy. Absorbing but refusing to metabolize the language of corporate culture, Yago opens spaces where critical thinking can still happen in spite of the pressure imposed by the numbing and accelerating effects of too-late capitalism. Parallel to her writing, Yago's art combines conceptual legacies with cartoon elements, creating a poetics of highly relatable memes, without giving in to the cynical or the blasé.