TweetShare Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 by LR Lippard This work documents the network of ideas that has been labelled conceptual art. Including texts by and taped discussions among and with the artists involved, the book is arranged as an annotated chronology. You are Here: Personal Geographies and [...]

TweetShare Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky Chomsky’s classic back-pocket primer on US government propaganda and media bias is the Open Media Pamphlet Series’s best-selling title of all time, with more than 100,000 copies in print. Arguably more important now than ever, this newly expanded edition furthers Chomsky’s analysis with his [...]

TweetShare  Chance (Documents of Contemporary Art) by Margaret Iversen The chance situation or random event—whether as a strategy or as a subject of investigation — has been central to many artists’ practices across a multiplicity of forms, including expressionism, automatism, the readymade, collage, surrealist and conceptual photography, fluxus event scores, film, audio and video, performance, [...]

TweetShare Signs and Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture by Marina Warner Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in startling essays like ‘The Crushed Butterflies of War’, she has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs [...]

TweetShare Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-first Century by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson and Vassilis Tsianos Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious economies and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage [...]

TweetShareAll the books reviewed can be bought directly from our bookshop at mutantspace.ie The Politics of Alternative Theatre in Britain, 1968-1990: The Case of 7:84 by Maria DiCenzo This book examines one of the most influential modern theatre companies, 7:84 (Scotland), under the directorship of John McGrath. 7:84 (Scotland) has been a vital contributor to [...]

TweetShareAll the books reviewed can be bought directly from our bookshop at mutantspace.ie Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture By J Crary  ”Suspensions of Perception” is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or [...]

TweetShareAll the books reviewed can be bought directly from our bookshop at mutantspace.ie Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture By J Crary  ”Suspensions of Perception” is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or [...]

TweetShare  Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this [...]