We are very pleased to welcome Colin Beckett to e-flux, where he will lead the editorial management and publicity of e-flux books.
Colin Beckett is an editor, writer, and publicist who lives in Los Angeles. In different capacities, he has worked with book publishers and institutions including Verso Books, AK Press, BAK – basis voor actuele kunst, Commune Editions, International Publishers, and Ignota Books. His writing on film and digital media has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Guernica, Cineaste, Moving Image Source, FLOW, and INCITE, as well as catalogues from institutions such as the Viennale, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. He is also managing editor of World Records Journal.
Together with the editors of e-flux journal, Colin is currently developing titles with both Sternberg Press and University of Minnesota Press for 2021 and beyond. We are delighted to have him on board.
Upcoming e-flux books titles include:
One Number Is Worth One Word by Luis Camnitzer
Forthcoming from Sternberg Press
Working across such mediums as printmaking, sculpture, language, and installations, Camnitzer’s work investigates how power is exercised and can be challenged in society. An influential teacher, over the six decades covered by this volume, he has interrogated the power structures inherent to the practice of art at the same time as he explores its liberating potential. Many of these texts are published for the first time. The book offers a singularly authoritative—yet also anti-authoritative—gathering of a life’s work in art, education and activism.
Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism by Keti Chukhrov
Forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press
By means of the philosophical and politico-economical consideration of Soviet socialism of the 1960s and 1970s, this book manages to reveal the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporaneous anticapitalist discourse and theory. The research is marked by a broad cross-disciplinary approach based on political economy, philosophy, art theory, and cultural theory.
Art and Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui
Forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press
Art and Cosmotechnics addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought, especially in light of current discourses on artificial intelligence and robotics. Thinking art and cosmotechnics together is an attempt to look into the varieties of experiences of art and to ask what these experiences might contribute to the rethinking of technology today.
Previous titles in the e-flux journal series with Sternberg Press:
What’s Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It? (2017)
Jalal Toufic, What Was I Thinking? (2017)
Art Without Death: Conversations on Russian Cosmism (2017)
Benjamin H. Bratton, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (2015)
The Internet Does Not Exist (2015)
Jalal Toufic, Forthcoming, Second Edition (2014)
Martha Rosler, Culture Class (2013)
Hito Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen (2013)
Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited, edited by Boris Groys (2012)
Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art (2011)
Boris Groys, Going Public (2011)
What Is Contemporary Art? (2010)
e-flux journal reader 2009 (2009)
Previous e-flux titles distributed by The University of Minnesota Press:
Superhumanity: Design of the Self, edited by Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley (e-flux architecture, 2017)
Avant-Garde Museology, edited by Arseny Zhilyaev (e-flux classics, 2015)
e-flux and The MIT Press:
Russian Cosmism, edited by Boris Groys (2018)
e-flux and Verso Books:
Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art (2017)