Conspiratorial Design. Information design for the bigger picture

Oct 15, 2025

Conspiratorial Design. Information design for the bigger picture, by Carlo Bramanti. Afterwords by Silvio Lorusso. Bringing two concepts we usually regard as antithetical, visual designer Carlo Bramanti examines how design and conspiracy theory intersect in their...

Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art

Aug 15, 2025

Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art, by Giovanni Aloi, an author, educator, and curator specializing in environmental subjects and the representation of nature in art. Published by Getty Publications. Botanical Revolutions uses plants to guide...

Climate Propagandas. Stories of Extinction and Regeneration

Jul 31, 2025

Climate Propagandas. Stories of Extinction and Regeneration, by visual artist and propaganda researcher Jonas Staal. Published by The MIT Press. In a world governed by total disregard for our climate future, the planet and its inhabitants –human and non-human...

AI & Conflicts. Volume 02

Jun 9, 2025

AI & Conflicts. Volume 02. Edited by Daniela Cotimbo, Francesco D’Abbraccio and Andrea Facchetti. Contrary to what the title may imply, this book is in Italian. Nevertheless, I found AI & Conflicts 02 so stimulating that i’d like to recommend it to my...

The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication

May 20, 2025

The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication, by art and architectural historian Carlotta Darò. She is Associate Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais and currently a guest senior researcher at ETH Zurich....

ALGOFFSHORE. The Art of Automating Tax Evasion

Apr 5, 2025

Quick review of a book that made me more knowledgeable and worldly-wise. ALGOFFSHORE. The Art of Automating Tax Evasion, by RYBN.org. Published by Set Margins’ and RRose Éditions. With an article by Pekko Koskinen and interviews of Citizens Against Bank...

Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today

Mar 20, 2025

Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today, edited by Nicole Brenez, curator and head of the department of Analysis and Cinematographic Culture at La Fémis, Jonathan Larcher, researcher at Paris Nanterre Université, Alo Paistik, a researcher focusing on media history and...