isolarii
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EARLY 2023

SEASON II

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IN THE FACE OF WAR
by Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko

in partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre

Afterwords by Nan Goldin and Timothy Snyder & Yuval Noah Harari

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THE ARCHIPELAGO CONVERSATIONS
by Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Foreword by Trinh T. Minh-ha

THE ARCHIPELAGO CONVERSATIONS introduces the most important philosopher of the twenty-first century to a global audience—a ready-to-hand tool for building an interdependent earth.

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MODERN ANIMAL
by Yevgenia Belorusets

Forewords by Peter Greenaway and Nikita Kadan

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STREET COP
by Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman

in conversation

STREET COP sees two literary masters joining forces to scrutinize the arc of the American myth.

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PURPLE PERILLA
by Can Xue

Forewords by Warren Ellis and Scholastique Mukasonga

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F LETTER: NEW RUSSIAN FEMINIST POETRY
ed. by Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Ainsley Morse

Forewords by Eileen Myles and Amia Srinivasan

F LETTER: NEW RUSSIAN FEMINIST POETRY assembles the feminist poets who have palpably changed the Russian language over the last decade. Against the backdrop of state violence and oppression, this is electric dissent in pursuit of a democratic, egalitarian future.

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(1)

SALMON: A RED HERRING
by Cooking Sections

Forewords by Hannah Landecker, Bruno Latour, Hans Ulrich Obrist and David Zilber

SALMON: A RED HERRING accounts for how we ended up in a deceptive world where sparrows molt pink, dogs turn blue, and honey glows maraschino red; where pharaohs tint paint, laptops flavor fog, and farms feed color.

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FROM THE EDITORS

The humanism of the past five hundred years is dead. Believing man was exceptional, it opened the abyss of extinction. A new approach is needed to establish the commonality of all life on Earth. This is not just the task of politics and philosophy. It requires the effort of all those who tear down convention in order to preserve what is meaningful. That is, the preservation not just of environments, but myth, irrationality, autonomy, and joy—whether by direct or poetic means. New islands—of thought, literature, art—are already emerging. We find these points of orientation, mapping a scattered community that spans continents and disciplines. To represent a world of many worlds, not a globe. More…

Our books revive the extinct genre of isolarii—the ‘island books’ that emerged at the start of the Renaissance. Bound together were poems, stories, and artworks—each a supposed island, a space that held a singular idea. We take up this genre-bending format to navigate the turbulence of our times. Each book is a ready-to-hand island. Together, they are a growing archipelago. Islands from which to view the world anew.