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Mouse in Residence

[3standardstoppage]

A KIND OF WORLD WAR Spector Books @spectorbooks Das Neue Alphabet( The New Alphabet) Volume 8 Aby Warburg’s famous lecture on the Hopi snake ritual in Arizona is one of the most commented art history transcripts of the 20th century. But while Warburg’s essay is firmly anchored in the canon of art history, to a wider public—especially in Europe—little is known about its source, the snake ritual and its history. A Kind of World War is dedicated to what Aby Warburg largely ignored himself: that not only the ritual, but also the images of the ritual—to whose global distribution Warburg contributed—have a political history. The volume seeks to demonstrate that Warburg’s art history, insofar it outlines an internal history of the European psyche, must be read in conjunction with its external counterpart, the history of colonization, war and cultural entanglement. Editor: Anselm Franke, Erhard Schüttpelz Come Read! #akindofworldwar #abywarburg #hopisnakedance #spectorbooks #bungeespace #3standardstoppage #3ssstudios (at Stanton Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/CernUB-FkYc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Piles of Earth and Rubble

[landscape-stories]

The Movement of Clouds around Mount Fuji: Photographed and Filmed by Masanao Abe – Helmut Völter

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The Movement of Clouds around Mount Fuji: Photographed and Filmed by Masanao Abe – Helmut Völter

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In the late 1920s, the Japanese physicist Masanao Abe built an observatory with a view of Mount Fuji. From it, over the course of fifteen years, he recorded the clouds that surrounded the mountain. He was interested in the scientific question of how the air currents around Fuji could be visualized by means of film and photography. Albeit unintentionally, Abe’s motifs fit into a long iconographic tradition: the mountain and the clouds. For decades his archive was left untouched in a Tokyo garden shed. Helmut Völter, who discovered Abe’s legacy while working on his book »Cloud Studies«, sifted through the images of the passionate cineaste who saw a combination of individual images, moving pictures and stereo recordings as the ideal form of scientific evidence. The mere contemplation of these dynamic cloud photographs centring on snow-covered Fuji seems to lift the viewer into the air.

[akolabuzi]

Bure, ou la vie dans les bois | or Life in the Woods | Jürgen Nefzger | Spector Books #photobook #bure #jurgennefzger #spectorbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vQGpkIjW-/?igshid=9wqo6yjm7juw

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TODAY ONLY! ⁣⁣⁣ Save 10% on EVERYTHING. Use code: "GRADS" ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ Space Colonies: ⁣ A Galactic Freeman's Journal⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ A visionary assemblage of historical, present-day and speculative material on space colonies, inspired by the culture of the Whole Earth Catalog. At the beginning of the 1970s, American physicist Gerard K. O’Neill developed the first ideas for colonizing space. Shortly thereafter, Stewart Brand, cyber-communard and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up these ideas and published the book Space Colonies in 1977. Space Colonies, an edition of Brand’s CoEvolution Quarterly, funded by the proceeds of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up the question of whether space might be colonized by the year 2000. Artist Fabian Reimann takes up Brand and O’Neill’s particular strain of techno-utopianism in Space Colonies: A Galactic Freeman’s Journal. In his photo-essay Reimann assembles historical, present-day and speculative material, combining these with fictional and factual stories to create a composite of different images of the world. With global ecological disaster an even more pressing issue than it was in 1977, and the colonization of space still touted by some as a last-ditch resort, Reimann looks back at the dreams and nightmares of the 1970s with a sophisticated visual humor. Designed by #FabianReimann Published by #SpectorBooks ⁣ ⁣ #graphicdesign #typography #SpaceColonies https://www.instagram.com/p/BxuXEFfHUoq/?igshid=1gcnmydr37hrp

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Back in Stock! Space Colonies: A Galactic Freeman's Journal / Available at www.draw-down.com / A visionary assemblage of historical, present-day and speculative material on space colonies, inspired by the culture of the Whole Earth Catalog. At the beginning of the 1970s, American physicist Gerard K. O’Neill developed the first ideas for colonizing space. Shortly thereafter, Stewart Brand, cyber-communard and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up these ideas and published the book Space Colonies in 1977. Space Colonies, an edition of Brand’s CoEvolution Quarterly, funded by the proceeds of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up the question of whether space might be colonized by the year 2000. Artist Fabian Reimann takes up Brand and O’Neill’s particular strain of techno-utopianism in Space Colonies: A Galactic Freeman’s Journal. In his photo-essay Reimann assembles historical, present-day and speculative material, combining these with fictional and factual stories to create a composite of different images of the world. With global ecological disaster an even more pressing issue than it was in 1977, and the colonization of space still touted by some as a last-ditch resort, Reimann looks back at the dreams and nightmares of the 1970s with a sophisticated visual humor. Designed by #FabianReimann Published by #SpectorBooks #graphicdesign #typography #SpaceColonies https://www.instagram.com/p/BtyHgabHyfq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=brlynwy90qpa

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BACK IN STOCK! Four Times Through The Labyrinth / Available at www.draw-down.com / The starting point for this transcript of four lectures is a public art work that conceptual artist Olaf Nicolai installed in Paris in 1998. By exploring and combining a broad spectrum of topics that relate to the theme of the labyrinth, this book serves as both, a reference system to Nicolai’s work as well as an independent source book dealing with labyrinthian matter ranging from the minotaur to the floorplans of IKEA. Published by #SpectorBooks and #RolloPress #Labyrinth #OlafNicolai #Paris https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq93oG3A9Du/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bhp781vi0hzn