Los Angeles-based Jorge Pardo (b. 1963) is an artist whose work crosses the boundaries of art, design, and architecture to redefine notions of space and utility. His work re-examines the rules of modernism by incorporating elements of Minimalism and his personal responses to everyday objects and settings. Works by Pardo can be found in the world's most prestigious museums, and several of his permanent public projects can be seen around the world, including PIER, which he built for the 1997 Skulpture Projekte in Munster, and MOUNTAIN BAR, which he designed in 2003 for the Chinatown neighborhood in Los Angeles. This is the first monograph of this scale and scope on Jorge Pardo's work.

Jorge Pardo (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Chris Kraus

Jorge Pardo

Christina Végh

Lane Relyea

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

"Two hours south of the border, we are transported into a parallel universe-a collapsing of time, culture, and space-available, it seems now, to anyone, at the price of absolute poverty." - Chris Kraus In Kelly Lake Store and Other Stories, Chris Kraus continues to blur the boundaries of genre in an exploration of Mexicali border culture, "participant" art, the romance of regionalism, and the relationship between art and real estate. As a writer and co-editor of the highly influential independent press Semiotext(e), Kraus's writing inhabits what Helen Stuhr-Rommereim called the "rare space where art, politics, theory and feelings are all tied up together because, as she continually makes clear, they are always all tied up together." Companion Editions, Portland OR 2012 Edited, Stephanie Snyder, Kylie Gilchrist, Megan Stockton Design, Heather Watkins Softcover, 48 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-9881838-0-3

Kelly Lake Store & other stories

Companion Editions

Fiction from Norman Rush and Rebecca Curtis, drama from Gregory S. Moss. Moretti reads Middlemarch, Gregory surfs, and Kraus asks what's after art.

n+1 Issue 17: The Evil Issue

Marco Roth

Norman Rush

Rebecca Curtis

Gabriel Winant

Dayna Tortorici

Alice Gregory

Gregory S. Moss

The Stanford Literary Lab

n+1 Foundation

The Bastard Factory

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Picador

I Love Dick

In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters, the husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other instead, imagining the fling the wife wishes to have with Dick. What follows is a breathless pursuit that takes the woman across America and away from her husband and far beyond her original infatuation into a discovery of the transformative power of first person narrative. I Love Dick is a manifesto for a new kind of feminist who isn't afraid to burn through her own narcissism in order to assume responsibility for herself and for all the injustice in the world and it's a book you won't put down until the author's final, heroic acts of self-revelation and transformation.

Literary

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Semiotext(e) is pleased to announce Issue 2 of its occasional intellectual journal Animal Shelter, edited by Hedi El Kholti. Fleeting, ephemeral, nondigital, and nonhierarchical, Animal Shelter is, as Alex Gartenfeld wrote in Interview, "a loose collection of texts, sequenced like a mixtape"-focused yet eclectic. Gathered around a long conversation with philosopher Paul Virilio on "The Littoral as Final Frontier," conducted on the first day of the "flash crack" collapse of the European markets, issue 2 features fiction, artwork, poetry, conversations, and essays which orbit desublimation, digression, negative monument, catastrophe, shadows, horror, sexiness . . . Moyra Davey on writer's block, Walter Benjamin, and Jane Bowles. Bruce Hainley channels Paloma Picasso to jot some notes on Margie Schnibbe and the "explicit." Bifo on Stanley Kubrick's Eyes's Wide Shut, and the relation between irony and cynicism  an. An interview with Paul Virilio on seascape, inertia, and the Zynthia cyclone  . Chris Kraus and Sylvère Lotringer on George Porcari's ambient photography  . Shlomo Sand and Sylvère Lotringer on contemporary Israel, myth, and the invention of Zionism. Alistair McCartney on early 90s bohemia in Hyde Park, Perth, Australia. Dodie Bellamy on queer subculture and the "Goldilocks syndrome." Veronica Gonzalez's short story on friendship, loss, and Los Angeles  . Rachel Kushner's short story that takes up pubescence, motorcycles, and Flaubert's lewd correspondence from the Nile. A rare short story by Eileen Myles on Winston Leyland's legendary 70s tabloid, Gay Sunshine. Other contributors include: Robert Dewhurst, Ben Ehrenreich, Matt Fishbeck, Paul Gellman, Slava Mogutin, Jed Ochmanek, John Pluecker, Michael Rashkow, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Sarah Wang, and others.

Art Sex Literature: Issue 2

Paul Virilio

Sylvère Lotringer

Dodie Bellamy

Moyra Davey

Eileen Myles

Franco Bifo Berardi

Shlomo Sand

hedi el kholti

Semiotext[e]

I Love Dick: The cult feminist novel, now an Amazon Prime Video series starring Kevin Bacon [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1792] Chris Kraus

Serpent's Tail

Torpor

Contemporary

Tuskar Rock

Aliens & Anorexia

In The Canyon, Revise The Canon {english edition} Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-run Community Art Space in Southern California -- With contributions by Mark Allen, Juliette Bellocq, Vera Brunner-Sung, Nancy Buchanan, Carol Cheh, Matthew Coolidge, Jill Dawsey, François Esquivié, Rita Gonzales, Géraldine Gourbe, Robby Herbst, Walter Hopps, Robert Irwin, Chris Kraus, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, Fred Lonidier, Pauline Oliveros, Elana Mann, Emily Mast, Senga Nengudi, Janet Sarbanes, Annette Weisser, Joshua Young, Andrea Zittel Before the onset of the social and cultural backlash that was brought on by the Reagan administration in the early eighties, Southern California was ripe territory for the genesis and development of emancipation movements for and by African Americans, Chicanos, pacifists, Marxists, feminists and homosexuals. Starting in the late sixties, these revolutionary waves particularly influenced practices such as performance art, video, installation and collaboration, which led to the construction of alternatives like artist-run spaces, non-profit spaces and artist-run community art spaces. In Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego, collaborative public action was constructed around utopian knowledge which was then redirected towards universities and art schools that favored the emergence of radical pedagogies. These other manners of experimental thinking, doing and teaching permitted artists to deconstruct certain canons that were inherited from European tradition and art history, and provoked a reexamination of "the American way of life". In the Canyon, Revise the Canon.

In The Canyon, Revise The Canon

Mark Allen

Juliette Bellocq

Vera Brunner-Sung

Nancy Buchanan

Carol Cheh

Matthew Coolidge

Jill Dawsey

François Esquivié

Rita Gonzales

SHELTER PRESS

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