« In her major and international retrospective, Nan Goldin reconfigured her work for an exhibition in six unique buildings designed by the architect Hala Wardé. Each building is designed in response to the specific piece. Together they constitute a village. “I have always wanted to be a filmmaker. My slideshows are films made up of stills,” says … Read more →

« Otherworld demonstrates a rare narrative rigor in the way it treats personal testimony. Each episode explores the faithful boundaries of narrative nonfiction and insists that uncertainty itself can be a legitimate and compelling subject. Rather than sensationalizing the paranormal, the podcast is interested in what it means to live with an experience that seems … Read more →

« Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is the latest work by Hideo Kojima, a singular genius of video-games but also contemporary storytelling. I chose this work from a deeply personal place: during my teenage years, as a player, I must admit it was through his games that I dived into writing and started thinking about becoming an … Read more →

“A 600 pages long book, a VP/Fellow at Google who has been instrumental in the development of autopredicting machines since the 1990s, might be a definitive take on AI, or at least where we’re at with it today. In short, it takes up the idea that prediction (which is AI’s superpower) is not only not a limiting … Read more →

« A contemporary artist who combines sculpture, collage, video, sound, drawing, installation, and text, David Douard is the creator of a disturbing and complex body of work, disrupted by the schisms, neuroses, and viralities of today’s world. The artist finds inspiration in contradictory cultural references: poetry, the history of science, technology, animism, and counterculture. While his work … Read more →

« Cosmofonia intends to perform a shift in the very conditions of perception. At its core lies a radical cinematic gesture: a film whose soundtrack is composed almost entirely of sounds never heard before by human ears. These are not effects or reconstructions, but transpositions of real acoustic phenomena. They do not … Read more →

« Can capitalism be cosmic? In this sharp, stylish and roguish approach to the big C word, Poliks and Alonso Trillo lifts us out of zombie Marxism and into a high-dimensional, verb-centric bonus level for sensing the complexity of a Capitalism After Us. Through the writers’ deft and at times humorous parsing of the amorphous mirrored C-surface … Read more →

« From writer Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, comes a gorgeous and inspiring book of cards: one hundred “divinations” for daily living, partway between poem and koan yet neither, collaged from the texts and illustrations of 19th-century ornithological books. Presented as a deck of cards tucked into book-safe in the style of a 19th-century ornithology tome, An Almanac of … Read more →

‘I loved the timeliness of this book and the two authors together making a world not so far from our own, where the digital realm could actually be a form of freedom. It thinks through the rise of anti-trans culture and the internet not only as a place of safety but maybe a new body. … Read more →

« An extraordinary book published by an artist. A memoir which is not linear at all. It’s kind of a dynamic archive. That’s what I like so much about it. There are mouvements, there are technologies, there are different identities, there is also resistance in it. The book is like performative object of our life … Read more →

« An Italian artist and a writer, Vincenzo Latronico’s masterpiece is about a couple of millennial digital artists, Anna and Tom, who moved from the south of Europe to Berlin during Angela Merkel’s second term. There’s a strong focus on the material, their online identities, and of course, the city. That idea that they’re maybe at the … Read more →

‘The Ugly Stepsister merits recognition in narrative for how unsparingly it revises the Cinderella story by restoring its original brutality. Blichfeldt draws on the Grimms’ version of the fairy tale, where mutilation, punishment, and bodily sacrifice are explicit, and reorients our sense of how that violence was later sanitized and resold as a fantasy of idealized feminity: the … Read more →

"Unconscious/Television is an essay by Lucas Ferraço Nassif that I discovered a few weeks ago on the recommendation of my friend Arca, and which I immediately found absolutely brilliant: brilliant in its ambition to defend the hypothesis of multiple unconsciouses by confronting psychoanalytic tradition with references as varied as Pokemon, David Lynch and Rei Kawakubo; brilliant in the freedom … Read more →

« Yu Hua, one of the central authors of contemporary Chinese fiction and author of classics such as The Brothers and To Live, has created an exemplary body of work that combines attention to ordinary lives with a strong historical and formal awareness. In a landscape marked by the collapse of imperial order and the … Read more →

« In Sam Eng’s darkly scintillating skater game, you play as a demon built from glass and pain who is hellbent on eating the moon. Set in a glittering dystopian world that riffs on the artist’s nuanced relationship with New York City, the game hard forks from the skating typology, offering up an evocative lore that’s … Read more →

‘Jamieson is a force. This book changed time slowly for me. It’s thinking about how the air we share connects us to the world and how we forget the air we live in. Jamieson’s work grounds me and roots me so deep in the maternal body – freedom from repression. ‘ Precious Okoyomon A … Read more →

“2000 Meters to Andriivka is a documentary film produced and directed by Mstyslav Chernov, a war correspondent for the Associated Press. Essentially composed of body-cam footage recorded by Ukrainian soldiers in combat, it follows a Ukrainian platoon during a mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka in 2023, during the counter-offensive that was launched into the … Read more →

« From the 2023 winner of the Prix Goncourt for poetry comes a debut novel unlike any other, a lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age. Like Beckett’s novels or Kafka’s stranger tales, The Endless Week is a work outside of time, as if novels had never existed and Laura Vazquez … Read more →