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Publié pour la première fois en 1978 dans l'admirable traduction de René Sieffert, ce livre culte est une réflexion sur la conception japonaise du beau.
Junichiro Tanizaki : Éloge de l'ombre
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Publié pour la première fois en 1978 dans l'admirable traduction de René Sieffert, ce livre culte est une réflexion sur la conception japonaise du beau.
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The perpetual motion machine
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In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. Originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery(...)
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The perpetual motion machine
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In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. Originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery and a battle cry of the imagination against praxis.
Translated by
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Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary writers and eleven literary places and subjects them to an act of immaterial translation – via the voice. The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn-of-the-century Sofia, remember the spaceship-looking-Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the 'Metaverse' and(...)
Translated by
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Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary writers and eleven literary places and subjects them to an act of immaterial translation – via the voice. The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn-of-the-century Sofia, remember the spaceship-looking-Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the 'Metaverse' and end at the end of the world in West Vancouver. Each of the authors invent or interpret place. Mundane, marginal, infamous, impossible. Together, the texts create a strange and beautiful territory that traverses distance and time. Writers include Douglas Coupland, Rana Dasgupta, Hu Fang, Julien Gracq, Jonathan Letham, Tom McCarthy, Guy Mannes Abbott, Sophia Al Maria, Hisham Matar, Adania Shibli, and Neal Stephenson, with essays by Charles Arsène-Henry and Shumon Basar.
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Que notre joie demeure
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Un spectre hante le roman de Kevin Lambert : le spectre du capitalisme. L’éblouissante Céline Wachowski, architecte de renommée internationale, dévoile enfin le Complexe Webuy, un projet ambitieux et structurant; surtout, le premier grand projet public qu’elle réalise pour Montréal, sa ville. Pourtant, les critiques de la population et de groupes militants ne tardent pas(...)
Que notre joie demeure
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Un spectre hante le roman de Kevin Lambert : le spectre du capitalisme. L’éblouissante Céline Wachowski, architecte de renommée internationale, dévoile enfin le Complexe Webuy, un projet ambitieux et structurant; surtout, le premier grand projet public qu’elle réalise pour Montréal, sa ville. Pourtant, les critiques de la population et de groupes militants ne tardent pas à fuser : on accuse Céline de détruire le tissu social, d’accélérer l’embourgeoisement des quartiers, de péchés plus capitaux encore. L’architecte est prise dans la tourmente et sommée de réagir. C’est la classe dirigeante que Kevin Lambert met en scène ici, fouillant la psyché de ces gens au sommet de leur discipline et qui pour la première fois de leur vie risquent de perdre pied. Quelle fiction se racontent-ils pour justifier leurs privilèges, pour asseoir leur place dans un monde qu’ils ont eux-mêmes bâti ? Dans une prose leste et immersive, «Que notre joie demeure» fait entendre les points de vue et pensées secrètes de ses personnages, tout en peignant le portrait clairvoyant du Montréal d’aujourd’hui.
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Nico Vela Page’s ''Americón'' is a collection of poems in Spanglish that weaves a space for the queer, trans body to know the land, and itself, as extensions of each other. The land is the desert of Northern New Mexico, the forgotten Pan-American Highway, the space between our thighs, the quaking cordillera of Chile, the moans of elk, and the ripe fruit waiting to be(...)
Americón
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Nico Vela Page’s ''Americón'' is a collection of poems in Spanglish that weaves a space for the queer, trans body to know the land, and itself, as extensions of each other. The land is the desert of Northern New Mexico, the forgotten Pan-American Highway, the space between our thighs, the quaking cordillera of Chile, the moans of elk, and the ripe fruit waiting to be picked. Through archive, attention, and erotic ecopoetics, Page’s debut collection of poems extends far across the page, the gender binary, language, and the Americas to find out who we are by asking where we are.
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Return to the field
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''Return to the field'' began as an invitation to consider questions of environment, affect, and mapping emotional and physical points of contact between the human and the landscape alongside visual artist Martha Tuttle and her collaborator and co-editor, poet Gabriel Kruis. Including drawings, poems, photography, sonic maps, and an experimental digital project by Esteban(...)
Return to the field
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''Return to the field'' began as an invitation to consider questions of environment, affect, and mapping emotional and physical points of contact between the human and the landscape alongside visual artist Martha Tuttle and her collaborator and co-editor, poet Gabriel Kruis. Including drawings, poems, photography, sonic maps, and an experimental digital project by Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, David Johnson, Suzanne Kite, Charmaine Lee, Philip Matthews, Nat Ward, and Sara J. Winston, ''Return to the field'' assembles a dense and resonant, multi-vocal conversation threaded together by Kruis’ book-length poem, ''A Connectome.'' ''Return to the field'' is published on the occasion of Martha Tuttle's exhibition and sculptural installation, ''A stone that thinks of Enceladus,'' on view at Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, New York) from July 15, 2020 through November 8, 2021.
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Among a sea of influences
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This publication documents a series of workshops and conversations hosted by Wendy’s Subway and organized by English-Arabic bilingual magazine Makzhin editor Mirene Arsanios on questions of formative literary influences. Three female Arab writers were invited to choose and discuss ten books that shaped their understanding of poetry and translation. Notwithstanding the(...)
Among a sea of influences
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This publication documents a series of workshops and conversations hosted by Wendy’s Subway and organized by English-Arabic bilingual magazine Makzhin editor Mirene Arsanios on questions of formative literary influences. Three female Arab writers were invited to choose and discuss ten books that shaped their understanding of poetry and translation. Notwithstanding the difficulty of the task, Marwa Helal, Mona Kareem, and Iman Mersal played along, selecting—among a sea of influences—authors and/or translators whose works were key to their own practice, and to their embodied understanding of what it means to write in Arabic from a female perspective. Asking what kind of writings are/were available to them, and which books or translations unseated their understanding of the world, Helal, Kareem, and Mersal discuss writing within the diaspora and across borders, radical publishing and translation networks, cultural and linguistic translation, vernacular language as resistance, and more.
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Sky Hopinka's ''Perfidia'' moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book-length poem surfaces a first-person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting(...)
Perfida
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Sky Hopinka's ''Perfidia'' moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book-length poem surfaces a first-person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, ''Perfidia's'' subjective syntax destabilizes entrenched colonial perspectives and concomitant descriptions of land, sky, sea, myth, place, and personhood.
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Montréal-Nord
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C’est l’histoire d’une petite fille trop sensible nommée Mariana, mais aussi un touchant hommage à l’univers qui l’a définie : le quartier où elle a vécu, les familles immigrantes qu’elle a côtoyées, les enseignants qui l’ont inspirée, et aussi les lieux enchanteurs (pour une enfant) qu’elle a fréquentés, tels le Club argentin, le cinéma Langelier et le marché aux puces(...)
October 2022
Montréal-Nord
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C’est l’histoire d’une petite fille trop sensible nommée Mariana, mais aussi un touchant hommage à l’univers qui l’a définie : le quartier où elle a vécu, les familles immigrantes qu’elle a côtoyées, les enseignants qui l’ont inspirée, et aussi les lieux enchanteurs (pour une enfant) qu’elle a fréquentés, tels le Club argentin, le cinéma Langelier et le marché aux puces Cinq étoiles.
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Aigi’s journey into the mythical world of the Sami people starts with a race for the first ray of sunlight of the New Year, and continues with a plunge into the mythical Saivo realm to search for a childhood friend. On the journey, for those who know, the knowledge of beings such as the gobmi, skammaidas and other mythical creatures will surely be needed. ''Fathoms of(...)
Aigi 1: Fathoms of Fenlake (signed)
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Aigi’s journey into the mythical world of the Sami people starts with a race for the first ray of sunlight of the New Year, and continues with a plunge into the mythical Saivo realm to search for a childhood friend. On the journey, for those who know, the knowledge of beings such as the gobmi, skammaidas and other mythical creatures will surely be needed. ''Fathoms of the fenlake'' is a ground-breaking fantasy story: strong ties to nature, full of resourcefulness and courage, along with mystical powers have always been present in the Sami culture. The Aigi-saga draws from that legendary folklore.
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