|  Dash
Edited by Anselm Franke. Text by Ho Rui An. The proliferation of dashcam technology in recent years has inadvertently yielded a contemporary index of car accidents in the vast accumulation of crash footage on the Internet. Exploring this phenomenon, this essay unravels the broader >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055000
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 08/08/2023 Awaiting stock
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|  Archives & Utopia
Edited by Stefan Aue, Lama El Khatib. Text by Ariella Azoulay, Paul Scheerbart. Traditional archivism runs the risk of perpetuating hegemonic ways of thinking by anticipating what will be of importance in the future through the framework of present-day realities and power structures. These genre-busting ruminations gather new >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055260
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 08/08/2023 Awaiting stock
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|  War and Wardrobe
Edited by Daniel Neugebauer. Text by Lantian Xie, Hala Ali, Stefan Schäfer, Jasmijn Visser, Adina Pintilie, Viktor Neumann. Using the fight against climate change as a jumping-off point, this collection of essays explores the use of wardrobe by political leaders such as Gaddafi during times of war, and reveals how costume, fashion, drag >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055932
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 08/08/2023 Awaiting stock
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|  Artificial Music
Edited by Detlef Diederichsen, Arno Raffeiner. Text by Laura Aha, Douglas Hofstadter, George E. Lewis. From home studios to streaming platforms, artificial intelligence is defining the sound of the future. This collection of essays explores the key developments in the field of AI and music, examining the process that enables >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055246
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 12/20/2022 In stock
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|  Considering the phenomenon of dashcam footage alongside a video testing the stability of China’s high-speed rail system by balancing a coin on a window ledge of a moving train, this essay examines how the discontents >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055918
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 08/08/2023 Awaiting stock
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|  The New Alphabet
Edited with text by Bernd Scherer. Text by Ann Cotten, Yuk Hui, Ben Lerner. Illustrated by Kanako Tada, Wolfgang Tillmans. This book tracks the relationship between binary code and Leibniz’s Monadology; the technological and cosmological aspects of non-Western writing systems; and the power of the alphabet song. >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054539
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 88 pgs / 19 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 In stock
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|  Listen to Lists
Edited by Lina Brion, Detlef Diederichsen. Text by Kristoffer Cornils, Maria Eriksson, Jasmine Guffond, et al. Today, the playlist structures how people listen, as well as how companies collect their data. This volume examines how the playlist has spawned new categories, aesthetic tendencies and behaviors. >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054553
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 88 pgs / 17 color.
Pub Date: 12/13/2022 In stock
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|  Counter_Readings of the Body
Edited by Daniel Neugebauer. Text by Olympia Bukkakis, María do Mar Castro Varela, Rain Demetri, Sabine Mohamed, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Olave Nduwanje, Jules Sturm, Julius Thissen. Inverting the notion of “body language,” the essays in this volume draw attention to the process of “reading bodies,” using the body as semiotic system, a fiction, an archive or alphabet. >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054591
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 12 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 Out of stock
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|  Echo
Edited by Nick Houde, Katrin Klingan, Johanna Schindler. Text by Louis Chude-Sokei, Maya Indira Ganesh, Wesley Goatley, Xavier Le Roy, Luciana Parisi, Sascha Pohflepp, Sophia Roosth, Gary Thomlinson. Drawing on Louis Chude-Sokei's political and technopoetic writings, this volume shows how past ideas have produced the technologies and lifestyles of the world today—for example, how AI today contains within it the biases of its >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054577
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 76 pgs / 10 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 In stock
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|  Skin and Code
Edited by Daniel Neugebauer. Text by Alyk Blue, Johanna Burai, Luce deLire, i-Päd, Rhea Ramjohn, Calah P. Toussaint-Amat, Anne Kaun, et al. Just as physical violence leaves its marks on the skin, conceptual violence is written into interfaces—in the form of biases in machine automation, as discrimination implanted in memes. The essays in this volume explore how >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054614
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 88 pgs / 23 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 In stock
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|  Carrier Bag Fiction
Edited by Sarah Shin, Mathias Zeiske. Text by Sophia Al-Maria, Season Butler, Federico Campagna, Dorothee Elmiger, Ursula K. Le Guin, Laurel Halo, et al. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054638
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 Out of stock
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|  Making
Edited by Katrin Klingan, Nick Houde, Johanna Schindler. Text by Luis Campos, Maria Chehonadskih, Ana Guzmán, Hao Liang, Hu Fang, Elizabeth Povinelli, Sophia Roosth, Kaushik Sunder Rajan. Conversations, essays and artist contributions focus on the practices and politics of production as a response to our contemporary processes of planetary transformation. >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054652
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 84 pgs / 1 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 In stock
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|  Looking at Music
Edited by Lina Brion, Detlef Diederichsen. Text by Stefanie Alisch, Peter Kirn, Mari Matsutoya, Adam Parkinson, Terre Thaemlitz, TOPLAP. In the performance of computer-generated music, a tangibly causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. Looking at Music asks: how important is live action to the future of musical performance? >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054928
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 10 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 In stock
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|  A Kind of World War
Edited with text by Anselm Franke, Erhard Schüttpelz. Aby Warburg’s famous lecture on the Hopi snake ritual in Arizona is one of the most commented-upon art history documents of the 20th century. But while Warburg’s essay is firmly anchored in the canon of >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054942
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 88 pgs / 110 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 Out of stock
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|  What Is Life?
Edited by Katrin Klingan, Nick Houde. Text by Stefan Helmreich, Natasha Myers, Sophia Roosth, Michael Rossi. In this book, the collective Biogroop selects and speculates upon a compilation of first pages of publications from 1829 to 2020 containing “What Is Life?” in their titles. Replies to the question range from “the >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054980
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 130 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 12/13/2022 Out of stock
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|  Re_Visioning Bodies
Edited by Daniel Neugebauer. Text by Maaike Bleeker, Ayse Güleç, Carmen Mörsch, Eliza Steinbock. This volume calls for a new visibility of non-normative bodies, moving away from enforced categorizations and toward respect and care. Essays touch on everything from The Matrix to migration, from wedding photography to the Lili >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054966
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 19 color.
Pub Date: 12/13/2022 In stock
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