e-flux is pleased to announce our new and forthcoming books, with titles from Pelin Tan, Boris Groys, McKenzie Wark, and a reader on film.
Published jointly with Sternberg Press, Forms of Non-Belonging compiles Pelin Tan’s essays and conversations with artists and practitioners across twenty years of research and fieldwork, reflecting on the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society. How can the experience of art reveal and embody the voice of apocalyptic landscapes? How can the effects of large-scale disasters be memorialized through artistic and architectural methodologies? In addressing such questions, the book aims to advance collective critical thinking by inviting the reader to engage with particular artifacts and architectures as traces of an apocalyptic era, lands as strata of violence, cycles as Earth’s navigation, and exile as a form of semi-voluntary collectivity. Buy the book here.
Coming in December 2026, with University of Minnesota Press, Towards a New Universalism gathers a selection of essays by influential theorist Boris Groys in which he articulates his sustained engagement with the problem of universality under contemporary conditions shaped by globalization, institutional fragmentation, and digital mediation. Rather than defending classical universalism or abandoning it in favor of cultural particularism, Groys approaches universality as something produced within shared historical, institutional, and technological frameworks. These essays address topics spanning from identity politics to migration, museums, media, and artificial intelligence, examining how universal claims make their way into social and cultural contexts, offering an indispensable collection for anyone interested in the intersections of politics and art. Pre-order here.
In February 2027, together with University of Minnesota Press, e-flux publishes The Cis Gaze and its others, a collection in which McKenzie Wark takes the reader on a journey through what she as a trans writer has learned about the cis gaze from trans artists—and from a few who aren’t, as far as we know. She engages with the work of Derek Jarman, the Wachowski sisters, Vaginal Davis, Greer Lankton, Juliana Huxtable, and other notable queer and trans artists, and develops the first comprehensive theory of the cis gaze—a compendium of tactics artists have used in and against it. Pre-order here.
Also in February 2027, e-flux and Sternberg Press will publish After the Kino-Eye: An e-flux Film Reader, which presents a collection of essays from e-flux journal that treat cinema and artists’ moving image as active agents in contemporary social and political life. Rather than surveying the history of film and video, the volume is structured around four connected themes: how moving images function as objects in circulation; how cinema ideologically constructs subjects and how ideology is represented in cinema; the construction and expansion of subjectivity through image-making; and the camera as an instrument of knowledge and evidence production. Across these contexts, the book traces how images bind and divide publics, produce perspectives, and shape what can or cannot be recognized as truth. Pre-order here.
The full catalogue of e-flux’s books can be found here. Stay tuned for launch events around the world for these upcoming titles.
