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Politics of Surfaces

Transformations of Public Space in Post-Communist Sofia

by Neda Genova

ISBN: 9781915983343

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: October 21, 2025

A novel conceptualization of the politics of walls and other surfaces by bringing together critical cultural and media theory and post-communist studies of urban space.

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

by Ian Penman

ISBN: 9781635902532

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: May 20, 2025

A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.

The Unreliable Nation

Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War

by Edward Jones-Imhotep

ISBN: 9780262051200

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 18, 2025

An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.

Dissonant Waves

Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century

by Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie

ISBN: 9781913380564

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity.

Facing Black Star

Edited by Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie

ISBN: 9780262047845

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 13, 2023

The Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency's print collection.

Making Art Work

How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture

by W. Patrick McCray

ISBN: 9780262044257

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 20, 2020

The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.

Deserting from the Culture Wars

Edited by Maria Hlavajova and Sven Lütticken

ISBN: 9780262539432

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 6, 2020

Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the “culture wars”—a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.

Think Tank Aesthetics

Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present

by Pamela M. Lee

ISBN: 9780262043526

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 17, 2020

How the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.