Diagrams: A Project by AMO/OMA

Mario Mainetti

Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2026

Diagrams is an exhibition project conceived by AMO/OMA, the studio founded by Rem Koolhaas, investigating the visual communication of data as a powerful tool for constructing meaning, comprehension or manipulation and a pervasive instrument for analyzing, understanding and transforming the surrounding world. It seeks to foster dialogue and speculative reflection on the relationship between human intelligence, scientific and cultural phenomena, and the creation and dissemination of knowledge.

See Diagrams, Symposium, ICI Berlin

Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema

Teresa De Lauretis

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984

"In a sense, then, narrative and visual pleasure constitute the frame of reference of cinema, one which provides the measure of desire. I believe this statement must apply to women as it does to men. The difference is, quite literally, that it is men who have defined the ''visible things'' of cinema, who have defined the object and the modalities of vision, pleasure, and meaning on the basis of perceptual and conceptual schemata provided by partriarchal ideological and social formations. The project of feminist cinema, therefore, is not so much ''to make visible the invisible'', or to destroy vision altogether, as to construct another (object of) vision and the conditions of visibility for a different social subject."

See Queer and Feminist Theory, Workshop, ICI Berlin

Dictee

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Oakland: University of California Press, 2022

Dictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha’s mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself. The elements that unite these women are suffering and the transcendence of suffering. The book is divided into nine parts structured around the Greek Muses. Cha deploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry to explore issues of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory.

Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment

Matrix

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2026

Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexuality that have a fundamental impact on the way buildings are designed and our cities are planned. Written collaboratively by the feminist collective Matrix, the book provide a full blown critique of the patriarchal built environment both in the home and in public space, and outline alternative forms of practice that are still relevant today. Making Space remains a path breaking book pointing to possibilities of a feminist future. The new edition comes with a new introduction written by leading feminists in architecture.

Arte Programmata

Lindsay Caplan

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022

In postwar Italy, a group of visionary artists used emergent computer technologies as both tools of artistic production and a means to reconceptualize the dynamic interrelation between individual freedom and collectivity. Working contrary to assumptions that the rigid, structural nature of programming limits subjectivity, this book traces the multifaceted practices of these groundbreaking artists and their conviction that technology could provide the conditions for a liberated social life. Centered on the relationships between art, technology, and politics, Arte Programmata considers an important antecedent to the digital age.

Future's Theory: Philosophies of the World to Come

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Ed.)

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026

What are the most radical transformations on the horizon of our world? And how are they irreversibly altering our experience of time, movement, language, mind, body, virtuality, power, and nature? Cloaked in relative obscurity, future eras compel the invention of new techniques of visionary speculation. Future's Theory provides many, shining a light on the infinity of possible futurities from multiple astonishing perspectives. Exploring how we imagine new ages in the 21st century, the book examines how alternate future dimensions will affect everything from our culture to our politics, our bodies to our minds.

Bad Infinity: Selected Writings

Aria Dean

London: Sternberg Press, 2023

Compiled here for the first time, the selected writings of Aria Dean mount a trenchant critique of representational systems. Dean's work across media has long been defined by what she calls a “fixation on the subject and its borders,” and the texts collected here filter that inquiry through digital networks, art history, and Black radical thought. Equally at home discussing artists who embrace difficulty—from Robert Morris to David Hammons, Lorna Simpson, and Ulysses Jenkins—and conceptual frameworks such as Afropessimism, Dean often contends with how theoretical positions brush against the grain of lived reality: how the Structuralism handed down from the academy, for instance, can be commingled with critiques of structural racism, or how Georges Bataille's notion of base matter transforms through an encounter with Blackness.

Anthropocene affordances: Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature

Lena Pfeifer

Bielefeld: transcript, 2026

The current historical moment, often referred to as the Anthropocene, is defined by profound human influence on the planetary system. Lena Pfeifer examines how contemporary US-American literature negotiates the political, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Connecting new formalist approaches with theories of scale, she develops the concept of »Anthropocene affordances« as a new methodological framework for analyzing narrative responses to the recent ecological crisis that reconfigure conventional forms and narrative strategies to critically discuss the role of the human as a geological force.

Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema

Nicolas Helm-Grovas

Leiden: Brill, 2026

From the late 60s to the early 80s, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen produced some of the most influential writings in film theory, such as Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and Wollen’s The Two Avant-Gardes. In the same period, the pair made six films together. Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen is the first book-length study of their work. Moving across Mulvey and Wollen’s writings and films, it situates their work in a detailed account of the shifting conjunctures in which it was generated. Traversing psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism and semiotics, it draws on extensive archival research to present an in-depth study of these theorist-filmmakers and the wider field of 70s British "counter-cinema".