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Join @artbookhwla tiday, Sunday | December 15th | 3PM for a special dual book launch and signing with Warren Neidich for "Glossary of Cognitive Activism" and Armen Avanessian for "Future Metaphysics" signed copies are available to pre-order with FREE U.S. shipping. Email us: [email protected] or call 213-988-7413. #warrenneidich #armenavanessian https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GLOUEpJq4/?igshid=zytjpxk476c6

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: MIAMIFICATION by ARMEN AVANESSIAN (2017) • Strange how many déjà vus you have here. • How might we conceive of comradeship with a present that is increasingly predetermined by algorithms and governed by techno-politics? Armen Avanessian chronicles his stay in Miami as an experiment in writing about our times of individual optimization and digitization. An inventory of the self in the second person—and a philosopher’s reflections in the infinity pool of the art world—this book reckons with a new time complex as well as the aesthetics and infrastructures of the contemporary. Can we advance from conditions of financial feudalism and climate change to a progressive poetics of the digital? The city of tropical noir becomes a case study for a geopolitics and economics of the future—Miami vision, Miami vacation, Miami fiction, Miamification. • Available via our website and in the bookshop tomorrow. • #worldfoodbooks #armenavanessian #miamification #sternbergpress (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: ARMEN AVANESSIAN - Overwrite Ethics Of Knowledge—Poetics Of Existence (2017) Since the early 1800s, the institution of the university has promoted creativity, critical thinking, and independent research. The more it has yielded to the pressures of the economy, however, the more it has betrayed its ideals. This, in short, is the common critique of the plight of the academy. But the inverse might be true: the depression, feelings of insufficiency, and permanent pressure to innovate experienced by academics might be symptoms of these original ideals, which, along with artistic production and the regime of aesthetics, has shaped the spirit of neoliberal capitalism. Philosopher and political theorist Armen Avanessian argues that the ethical dimension of knowledge can produce a new reality. Can the speculative poetics of collaborative writing, he asks, free us from the dominant regime of the academy and, by extension, the art world? And how does this independence differ from the principle of self-fulfillment on which the ideal of the university and current conceptions of artistic research are based? Overwrite: Ethics of Knowledge—Poetics of Existence is about the desire to write differently to situate oneself in the world differently. It is a book about the truth that is produced when a subject takes responsibility for its thinking, its experiences, its conflicts; when a subject rewrites and overwrites itself to become an other, and transforms the world in the process. Translated by Nils F. Schott Design by HelloMe Available via our website and in the bookshop. #worldfoodbooks #armenavanessian #sternbergpress (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)