Sternberg Press - April 2023

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Pidginization as Curatorial Method - Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating

Sternberg Press 2023 ISBN 9781915609083 Acqn 33327
Pb 11x18cm 64pp £11
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer
Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a
mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices-a space in
which the boundaries between disciplines of knowledge collapse and sociopolitical, economic,
ethical, and spiritual concepts and questions are renegotiated. Written as a series of powerful
anecdotes, the book grounds its provocative ideas in personal, cultural, and political histories of
challenge and improvisation, and argues, as Ndikung writes, that "pidginized curating is a
curating that combines works, ideas, practices, and languages in resistance to canonical
conventions, cultural stasis, ossified practices, dead rhythms, and singular forms."
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Curating Capitalism - How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy

Pb 13x19cm 352pp col ills £14.50
Curating has evolved into much more than creating interesting exhibitions, promoting artists, and
caring for artworks: in this millennium, art and business are fused, transforming capitalism from
the inside out. Curating Capitalism implies new ways of management far beyond the simple
commercialization of art and artist. Today, art and the artist inspire business. Beginning with
Joseph Beuys's declaration ART = CAPITAL and Andy Warhol's vision of a capitalistic
BUSINESS ART, Pierre Guillet de Monthoux contemplates the insights of contemporary curators
to understand the new hybrid forms of art and business active in our current society and
economy.
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ART
Mochu - Bezoar Delinqxenz

Pb 13x18cm 104pp col ills £14.50
Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings
together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk
forums, and renegade university departments to forge a transnational narrative that trips through
the incompatible fantasies of rationality and civilization, with wormholes through ancient tales,
recent cinema, plain-wrong art histories, and pirated philosophical reflections.
The novel opens with a case of abduction in India. The operations of a far-right publishing house
are interrupted by extraterrestrial influences with political intent. The attack on a science-fiction
writer at a beach in Goa seems connected to a bot-propelled puzzle revolving around the
defacement of Medieval temple relics elsewhere. A detective specialized in interstellar sociology
finds clues that point to a transgalactic anarchist group with ties to online Posadist forums, while
Eurasian political theory circulates as noise-objects in Goa's beachside clubs. Meanwhile,
occultist explorers in the sci-fi writer's story find that the legendary homeland for Hinduism in the
Arctic has become infested by "Gradients of Hegelian Unhappiness" by way of an invasive
subzero entity buried in deep snow. The detective's investigations eventually turn metaphysical,
settling on impossible solutions spanning the far reaches of outer space.
Reactionary behavior on the internet, having spawned numerous retroactive origin stories for
itself, takes on a tentacular presence across diverse political spectrums, time periods, and
cultural contexts, giving the impression of a vast and tangled entity with distributed intelligence.
Fatally fused by a common hatred for the legacies of the Enlightenment, popular manifestations
go by terms like "alt-right" and "neo-reaction," powered by nerdy forums and blog posts across
the web. Stationing conspiracy theory itself as the central form of thinking, acting, and concept-
making in the twenty-first century, Bezoar Delinqxenz is a mixtape simulation of these
entanglements at the borderlands of fiction, insanity, and political emancipation.
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