Publikacje obcojęzyczne

Witty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential exploration of Polish literature. Its thirty-nine superb stories run the length of the literal and imaginative creation of Poland, from 1918 (when Poland regained its independence after 123 years of colonization by the neighbouring empires) to the present.

Maurizio Lazzarato’s War and Money explores the connections between capitalist expansion, international economic conflict, and war, via an analysis of the imperialism of the American dollar. He examines why contemporary left-wing theorists such as Michel Foucault and Antonio Negri have failed to recognize war as a fundamental aspect of capitalism.

'Everyone was everyone's enemy, and no one was sure who would meet death. At whose hands, when and where. And why.' In Luanda, the capital of Angola, an apocalyptic atmosphere prevails as the Portuguese residents hurriedly desert the city. Determined to cover events as four hundred years of colonial rule come to an end, Ryszard Kapuściński hitched a lift on one of the last Portuguese military aircraft flying to Angola. 

Unfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, George Orwell’s essays are masterpieces of plain English prose. This stirring new collection brings together his most cherished pieces with lesser-known gems, ranging over everything from tree planting to living with the atom bomb, sleeping rough to the perils of getting what you want in politics.

Katalog został wydany z okazji dwumiejscowej wystawy What you see is not here tomorrow Radka Brousila w galerii KRUPA w Londynie i Wrocławiu, 14 marca - 3 maja 2025.

W eseju “On the Concept of History” (1940) Walter Benjamin przywołuje niezwykłą scenę z  Rewolucji Lipcowej w 1830 roku, kiedy to paryscy powstańcy strzelali do tarcz zegarów na  wieżach, jakby próbowali zatrzymać sam czas. Świadek tych wydarzeń, cytowany przez  Benjamina, porównał rewolucjonistów do biblijnego Jozuego, który zatrzymał czas, prosząc  Boga o powstrzymanie ruchu słońca. Strzelanie do zegarów – najbardziej wszechobecnych i  powszechnych symboli zachodniego, nowoczesnego czasu – można zrozumieć jako próbę radykalnego zerwania z dominującym porządkiem rzeczy. Jako akt ikonoklastyczny świadczy o  konstytutywnym związku między urządzeniami do mierzenia czasu a sposobami, w jakie czas  jest postrzegany i przeżywany, czyniąc z reprezentacji czasu polityczne pole bitwy.

Publikacja towarzyszy wystawie Lary i penaty. O budowaniu poczucia bezpieczeństwa w architekturze w Pawilonie Polskim na 19. Międzynarodowej Wystawie Architektury w Wenecji.

Collecting two of his most celebrated works – Rescue, written in Warsaw in the shadow of Nazi occupation, and A Treatise on Poetry – a momentous history of Poland, told in four cantos – here lie the sharpest fruits of one of the greatest poets of the 20^th century: the Nobel Laureate who narrates the rise and fall of nations, who ‘voices man’s exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts’.

Zbigniew Herbert was one of the best-known and most-translated poets of post-war Poland, opposed alike to Communism, Fascism, nationalism and the Church, yet moved, throughout his work, by ‘a powerful sense of right and wrong without a corresponding belief in a system’ (New York Times).

In this groundbreaking book, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. This has been updated with a new afterword on the 2023 invasion of Gaza.

Journey into space with Polish scifi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy’s cosmic adventure ‘The Seventh Voyage’ are reminiscent of Douglas Adams, while the spectral whispers haunting Pirx the Pilot as he navigates his spaceship to Mars in ‘Terminus’, echo the author’s masterpiece Solaris. Then ‘The Mask’ introduces a perfect robot assassin and asks, can AI fall in love or refuse its programming? What if the target of its affections is also its prey?

WERSJA ANGIELSKA

Książka w języku angielskim towarzyszy wystawie Repeat after Me II (Powtarzajcie za mną II) ukraińskiego kolektywu Open Group w Pawilonie Polskim na 60. Międzynarodowej Wystawie Sztuki – La Biennale di Venezia.

“Told with spare, precise drawings, and a dark, subtle sense of humor, Cartoon Graveyard is a layered portrait of loss, memory, and devotion. The simplicity and slimness of this book are deceptive: there is a generosity to Joey Perr’s comics that invites the reader to settle in, stick around. It is always wonderful to spend time here.”
—Anna Wiener of the New Yorker

“Poetic and humorous, dreamy and stark, Cartoon Graveyard aches with tenderness as it articulates the experience of caretaking for a parent, and grasps toward the incomprehensible absurdity of loss.”
—Alex Tatarsky

I am not deep, although my eyes are, like a black sea that has been forgotten, as many have told me.

Noura Alsouma’s zine “Nawar’s Sketchbook” is a liquid lament by the Berlin-based Syrian visual artist and printmaker, riveted to eyes that see and therefore shed tears, channeling the heartfelt exposure of the sketchbooks Noura fills to the bleed.

With a moving text by the artist in the original Arabic, reproduced in her handwriting, as well as in English translation by Suja Sawafta.

This catalog, marking the inaugural exhibition in the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, also serves as a book exploring the role and mission of a contemporary art museum today— in Poland and internationally, amidst a turbulent era. 

Zeszyt ćwiczeń architektoniczno-klimatycznych przygotowany przez grupę projektową CENTRALA. Temat główny: grawitacja.