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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Published: 2016-09-20

Hardcover: 272 pages

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#1 New York Times Bestseller  An inspiring and thought-provoking graduation gift: At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage  Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at t...

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Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition

by Jordan H. Carver

Published: 2018-09-15

Perfect Paperback: 264 pages

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In 2006, then-President George W. Bush officially acknowledged the existence of the secret CIA Enhanced Interrogation program. Between the attacks of September 11 and Bush's announcement, the CIA had been shuttling suspected terrorists and "persons of interest" around the world in order to...

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Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me

by Charlamagne Tha God

Published: 2018-10-23

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety to reach that elusive next level of success.Fear is holding you back. It’s time to turn the tabl...

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Thinking through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas

by Peter Geimer, Isabelle Graw, André Rottmann

Published: 2012-09-01

Paperback: 70 pages

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Painting appears to have dispelled its own once uncontested material basis. No longer synonymous with a flat picture plane hung on the wall, painting in its current incarnations tends instead to emphasize the apparatus of its appearance and the conduits of its circulation. Thinking  through Painting,...

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Studio Talks: Thinking Through Painting

by Kristina Bength, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Jan Rydén, Sigrid Sandström

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 418 pages

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Thinking Through Painting collects over 400 pages of commissioned texts andtranscribed conversations gathered during numerous artist studio visits on theuneasy relationship between painting and the contemporary institutional andtheoretical art scene. Initiated in 2009 following a discussio...

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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

Published: 2017-05-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispeci...

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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)

by Donna J. Haraway

Published: 2016-09-19

Paperback: 312 pages

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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...

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How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

by Eduardo Kohn

Published: 2013-08-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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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 Ru...

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The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (Culture and Economic Life)

by Alison Gerber

Published: 2017-11-07

Paperback: 192 pages

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Artists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a café wall. They are photographed at gallery openings in New York and Los Angeles, hustle in fast-gentrifying cities, and, sometimes, make quiet lives in Midwestern monasteries. Some command armies of...

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Where Art Belongs (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

by Chris Kraus

Published: 2011-01-21

Paperback: 176 pages

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Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation o...