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This week’s Library highlights continue our Book Series focus with the Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series, a collection of concise, provocative and engaging texts across philosophy, politics, art, and cultural theory. Our library holds a growing selection of these sharp, portable volumes, including:

❋ The Coming Insurrection, The Invisible Committee
❋ The Violence of Financial Capitalism, Christian Marazzi
❋ The Screwball Asses, Guy Hocquenghem
❋ Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus
❋ The Making of the Indebted Man, Maurizio Lazzarato
❋ The Uprising, Franco “Bifo” Berardi
❋ Factories of Knowledge, Gerald Raunig
❋ Nietzche Apostle, Peter Sloterdijk
❋ Governing by Debt, Maurizio Lazzarato
❋ To Our Friends, The Invisible Committee
❋ Campus S*x, Campus Security, Jennifer Doyle
❋ Carceral Capitalism, Jackie Wang
❋ Gore Capitalism, Sayak Valencia
❋ How the World Swung to the Right, François Cusset
❋ The Intolerable Present, the Urgency of Revolution, Maurizio Lazzarato

Published by Semiotext(e) , the Intervention Series packs urgent and influential voices into editions that are both straightforward and intellectually rigorous and reflect Semiotext(e)’s long-standing commitment to translating critical theory into lived, contemporary contexts.

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟴 or by appointment. Come by to browse these titles or explore more than 8000+ books across 16 categories our library holds 📚

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𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰-𝗕𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 & 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 in 𝗚𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴 & 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗺:
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿
𝟭𝟭-𝟭𝟮𝘁𝗵 HDK-Valand with the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm)
𝟭𝟯-𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 CuratorLab, Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm

𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗦 expands 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 activities to cohost the second in its series of four annual large scale international symposia focusing on contemporary art’s relationship to Curatorial Thinking and Publicness in, across and in relation to Finland, Nordic-Baltic region and beyond.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰-𝗕𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 is the second cooperative symposia organised over four-years (Curatorial Thinking, Learning, Instituting, Collaborating) alongside a series of artist commissions and collaborations exploring Curatorial Thinking across Finland, the Nordic-Baltic region and internationally.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 gathers past and present thinking, knowledge, and critique within practices of the curatorial. In turn, creating a space for much-needed dialogue between diverse local and international contemporary art scenes and practitioners to generate new opportunities for Finnish artists and cultural workers in the Nordic-Baltic region.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 Asks what specific modes of curatorial thinking-as-learning are taking place across the expanding contemporary art curatorial field and enabled by such an expanding educational provision.

𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰.

Read more at www.positioningsymposium.com

Design: Valerio di Lucente / Jono Lewarne

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