Notes towards a Critique of Money

The analysis in Notes towards a Critique of Money highlights the functions of money both in the organization of the capitalist symbolic order and in the constitution of subjectivity in the market.

Combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Baudrillardian structuralism, the book creates a universe where price and sign are entangled, giving rise to the dominant organizing form of capitalism. The fantasmatic management of desire enforces this structural principle on the subjective level and encourages the libidinal investment in the dominant representations of social reality as they are produced by the combined principles of signification and economic valuation. Here, money signifies the particular content that hegemonizes the universal ideological construction of capitalism providing a particular and accessible meaning to economic value, which colours the very universality of the system of prices and accounts for its efficiency.

Being conscious of the limitations of the theoretical analysis, the book employs along with rational arguments a series of artworks that are used both to illustrate the argument and to challenge the unconscious links between the market and the subject, as it is mediated by money and ideology. Notes towards a Critique of Money does not only aspire to raise a theoretical challenge against capital and to open up possibilities of emancipation, but to point towards a new aesthetic of political analysis.

2011
English
142 pages
Paperback
Edition: 600

15€
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Stefanie Seufert
Die vorliegende Publikation vertieft die Debatte um Formen der visuellen Reduktion in aktuellen fotografischen Projekten. Es beginnt sich eine Bildsprache zu formieren, die sich explizit gegen Narration wendet und im Gegenzug eintritt für den Eigenwert der fotografischen Materialität: Bilder von ephemeren Erscheinungen und Zuständen, die sich in einem fremdartigen und doch emblematischen Moment zu einer spezifischen Form verdichten. Nicht die Offenlegung oder die Ästhetisierung des Wirklichen steht dabei im Zentrum, sondern die Bearbeitung der Frage des Verhältnisses von Sichtbarkeit und Wirklichkeit.

Softcover
48 Pages
German

18€
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This Calender was created using snapshots and image retouching.

Made during a workshop held by Maxi T.R. Körner Union Image Union, assisted by Luise Gagliardi.

Printed in offset duotone by Benjamin Plantier

ECAL / University of art and design Lausanne, 2012

D 15€
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LUKAS WASSMANN, L. Edition Dino Simonett

33 x 48 cm, 64 pages, printed on mirror-glossy Splendorlux-Paper, hardcover hand-bound in natural linnen; four hundred numbered and signed books.
ISBN 9-905562-88-X

D 125€

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Neapolis. Curated & published by Ill-Studio

Featuring works & words by :
Rick Owens, Taro Hirano, François Chaignaud, Jean-Max Colard, Aaron Young, Camille Vivier, Michael Heizer, Bertrand Lavier, Dan Colen, Jérémie Egry, Aurélien Arbet, David Luraschi, Jerry Hsu, Audrey Corregan, Erik Haberfeld, Eric Tabuchi, Bertrand Trichet, Yann Gross, Keegan Walker, Estelle Hanania, Mike Davis, Andrew Phelps, Tony Smith, Andrew Lewicki, Barbara Bloom, Paul Virilio, Sébastien Carayol, Vincent Lamouroux, Robert Kinmont, Elisabeth Ballet, Helmut Smits, Wilfrid Almendra, Sol LeWitt, Johannes Wohnseifer, Mark Gonzales, Laurent Perbos, Alicja Kwade, Mounir Fatmi, Ugo La Pietra, Sandrine Pelletier, Tere Recarens, Erwin Wurm, David Le Breton, Raphaël Zarka, (…)

English Text only — Edition of 500 copies
D 35€

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Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir & Shame magazine presentations @ Motto Berlin. 13.12.2012
start 7pm

A slideshow presentation addressing the sovereignty of the sign, and/or the independence of the phenomenon which had hitherto transported it, marks the official release of MINDGAMES – a publication conceived as abstract shapes, shrouded in words, to articulate a cross-dimensional plane of intrigue. The diagrams and images will describe the structures and concepts that occupied the mind of the author when creating the text. The presentation will include more than a hundred originally composed images and will be accompanied by a reading.

MINDGAMES incoporates metaphorical qualities depicting people and their relationships in an ongoing interchange between space, geometry, history, and meaning. This quadrangled story about shades and variations in co-dependence and sovereignty is inspired by a musician (John Lennon), a theorist (Henri Lefebvre), an author (Halldor Laxness), and a demented ruler of Rome (Caligula) – forming biographies that present portraits of associations rather than particular statements about individual lives. The publication was conceived as a way of enjoying information in the tradition of the autodidacts of the past – but in a style which is contingent to  a reverence towards traditional modes of archiving the world.

Published in collaboration with Werkplaats Typografie.
Designed by Noah Venezia, Werkplaats Typographie, Arnhem / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts.
Size: 12 x 17 cm
Pages: 152
Edition: 500
D 15€

“If shame emerges in the breach between you and me, between the private and the public, this magazine is a willfully idiosyncratic and multi-faced attempt to approach this breach, that is, to approach shame in its different registers from the sexual and personal to the political.“
Jenny Nachtigall
Shame is a recurring publication which observes and researches human feelings and the human body. Shame focuses on daily issues that easily pass by our attention and juxtaposes them to politics, design and art in printed form. This makes it look, at times, uncomfortable and embarrasing. Shame One was initiated and produced in the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL by visual artist Wolfgang Fuetterer and graphic designer Neda Firfova. As of 2012 Shame continues to be produced in Berlin.
Shame One contributors: Alexander, Nathaniel Boyd, Simon Denny, Nicholas Matranga, Shogo Matsushiro, Jenny Nachtigall, Wolfgang F. IX, Hinrich Sachs, Samo Tomsic

edition of: 200
pages: 52
published by: Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
D 15€

Sleep. Grouper. Fillip Editions

**Edition of 800 white 180g vinyls housed in a PVC-lined innersleeve with glossy cover** Breathtaking stuff from Liz Harris presented by Canadian publication, Fillip with suitably refined production values. This edition of ‘Sleep’ is a fragment of a longer composition (we could imagine it exponentially longer) first performed at the Berkeley Art Museum in 2011. More recently the label organised its performance in an abandoned polar bear enclosure at Vancouver’s decommissioned Zoo and now it finally reaches yours and our ears like some cathartic cloud of harmonised tape symphonics that just floated across the Atlantic. It’s difficult to say exactly what the source material is – it could be vocals, it could be synths – but that’s beside the point, and whatever it is, it’s one of the most beautiful things we’ve heard all year.

Size: 31 x 33 cm
Weight: 320 g
ISBN: 978-1-927354-06-3
D 20€

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Palm. Absalon Kirkeby. Emancipa(t/ss)ionsfrugten

Absalon Kirkeby has published his new book ‘PALM’. Like his book ‘Pseudo’ (released in 2009), it is a book that Absalon Kirkeby regards as an independent work.

Language: English
Pages: 54
Size: 48 x 31 cm
Weight: 660 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-87-92371-08-9
D 35€

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Anne Schwalbe. Vulkan oder Stein

Edition: 1000 signed and numbered / 26 photographs / Self Published and Printed in Berlin

Book launch at Motto Berlin: 01.02.2013 – 7PM

Binding: Softcover
Language: English / German
Pages: 56
D 35€

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Sara MacKillop. Ex-library Book. Pork Salad Press

An Ex-library book is the least desirable book in book collecting terms. The term is used for books that once belonged to a library. Ex-library books are generally unattractive, as they have usually been stamped, taped, glued or had a card pocket glued to them. The books have often been damaged by the patrons of the library themselves.

Binding: Softcover
Language: English
Pages: 80
ISBN: 978-87-91409-68-4
D 12€

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