Platfform 2 Library 📚

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2	Yates McKee, Strike Art, Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition	Strike Art shows how Occupy ushered in a new era of artistically-oriented direct action that continues to ramify far beyond the initial act of occupation itself into ongoing struggles surrounding labor, debt, and climate justice, concluding with a consideration of the overlaps between such work and the aesthetic practices of the Black Lives Matter movement. Art after Occupy, McKee suggests, contains great potentials of imagination and action for a renewed left project that are still only beginning to ripen, at once shaking up and taking flight from the art system as we know it.	Llinos Anwyl
3	Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge	In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'. Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences. Galvanised by this clear hunger for open discussion, she decided to dig into the source of these feelings. Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge and counter racism.	Felix Stevenson-Davies
4	When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, by Dr Gabor Mate	Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Mate's acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical questions about the mind-body link - and the role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.	Dafydd Reeves
5	Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales	What does it mean to imagine Wales and “The Welsh” as something both distinct and inclusive? In Welsh (Plural), some of the foremost current Welsh writers offer imaginative, radical perspectives that take us beyond the clichés and binaries that so often shape thinking about Wales and Welshness.	Fin Jordão
6	Weather the Weather
7	We Axe for What We Want, by GAADA, Esther McManus, Up Helly Aa fo Aa	We Axe For What We Want was designed by Esther McManus and printed in the Gaada workshop in Burra. This 125 page book contains Roseanne Watt’s commissioned text Lukkie Minnie’s Føy, content from the newly launched Up Helly Aa for Aa Archive, poetry by Amy Gear, Illustrations by Esther McManus, alongside work made by artists throughout Weemin’s Wark (including Holly Graham, Hannah Harkes, Isabel Greenberg and Brooke Palmieri AKA Camp Books).	Gift from Gaada
8	ululations	ululations is a bilingual publication, in print and sound, of newly commissioned writing by Fin Jordão, Nia Morais and Kandace Siobhan Walker, with creative translations by Elan Grug Muse, produced by Peak Cymru with Freya Dooley and Mark El-khatib.	Publication created as part of Creating dangerously (we-I insist!)
9	Toward the Not Yet - Art As Public Practice, Edited by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova and Rachael Rakes	Combining handbook, dictionary, and anthology, investigations and examples of artistic practices aimed at social change. This volume from BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, combines handbook, dictionary, and anthology to investigate artistic practice aimed at achieving social change. With text and visual essays, definitions, exercises, interviews, and images, the contributors envision a praxis that is committed to experimenting with aesthetics and politics in ways that go beyond the conventions of Western modernity. These are practices that are interdisciplinary, theoretically informed, and politically driven, offering ways of “being together otherwise.” Catalyzed by the work of artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, which focuses on radicalizing civic processes, Toward the Not-Yet imagines and enacts alternative ways of conceiving the present and future.	Peak Team
10	Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Paperback) Marcia Bjornerud	Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating. The lifespan of Earth can seem unfathomable compared to the brevity of human existence, but this view of time denies our deep roots in Earth's history-and the magnitude of our effects on the planet. Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future.	Alan Bowring
11	The Windrush Betrayal	Exposing the hostile environment by Amelia Gentleman - Amelia Gentleman's exposé of the Windrush scandal shocked the nation. Her tenacious reporting revealed how the government's 'hostile environment' immigration policy had led to thousands of law-abiding people being wrongly classified as illegal immigrants.	Alberta Whittle, reading list alongsider her Creating dangerously (we-I insist!) trilogy
12	The White Pube, Ideas for a New Art World	"The art world is a bit broken. So many problems, such little time. Between January-April 2021, we plastered the distilled thoughts of years of writing on billboards and posters across the UK. We wanted to plop these aphorisms out there, as simple, feasible solutions; almost to prove how easy it can be if change is sincerely sought. The ideas are not radical, and they’re not new. They’re just six Very Good Ideas that we think you should listen to. In this pamphlet, we’ve listed the six ideas and taken the time to explain why we think they are, in fact, Very Good Ideas."	Llinos Anwyl
13	The Three Ecologies by Felix Guattari (Author), Ian Pindar (Translator), Paul Sutton (Translator)	Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, The Three Ecologies argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are the direct result of the expansion of a new form of capitalism and that a new ecosophical approach must be found which respects the differences between all living systems. A powerful critique of capitalism and a manifesto for a new way of thinking, the book is also an ideal introduction to the work of one of Europe's most radical thinkers.	Simon Whitehead
14	The Shantiroad Cookbook, by Suresh Jayaram	The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook brings together a collection of recipes from the community kitchen of 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, compiled and edited by the space's founding director, Suresh Jayaram. Featuring recipes from over 70 contributors, including artists, curators, patrons, residents, and the extended family of friends of 1Shanthiroad, the cookbook serves as a portrait of an evolving cultural community. Emerging from and responding to the history and legacy of 1Shanthiroad - Bangalore's oldest running non-profit residency and arts space - the cookbook frames the kitchen as integral to the site and function of the space, mapping recipes across generations, cultures, and timelines, while anchoring itself in the cultural history of the wider city.	Yellow Back Books
15	The Selected Works of Audre Lorde	Written by Audre Lorde Edited by Roxane Gay. A definitive selection of Audre Lorde's "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers.	Alberta Whittle, reading list alongsider her Creating dangerously (we-I insist!) trilogy
16	The end of Empire, Yinka Shonibare	Since the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (*1962, London) has developed opulently executed sculptures and installations, colourful collages and theatrically staged photographs and films. To do so he transforms episodes from art and history whose effects influence our present-day lives. The volume takes up the traces of colonialism and its consequences for role models, worldviews and body images in the works of Shonibare.	Melissa Rodrigues
17	The Country and the City, Raymond Williams	Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society's changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.	Peak Team, as part of a programme around marking the centenary of Raymond Williams' birth
18	That Day She'll Proclaim Her Chronicles, Muneera Pilgrim	For centuries poetry has been a form of knowledge and a way of knowing for non centred people. In this collection Muneera recenters her voice and the voices of other people that are often times relegated to the sidelines or misrepresented in mainstream thought. 'That day she'll relate her chronicles' explores belonging, spirituality, gender race and identity as well as themes of girlhood, pop cultural, familial bonds and crushes, against the back drop of London and Bristol streets steeped colonial power structures that still live on. Despite that this collection is a story of love and a labour of love.	Peak Team
19	Talker #7: Jo Fong - Giles Bailey	Talker is an interview zine about performance. This is issue #7. It features a conversation with director, choreographer and performer Jo Fong.Though her background is a dancer, performing as part of Rosas, Rambert Dance Company, Mar Bruce Company and National Dance Theatre Wales among many others, she also works across film, theatre and the visual arts. Her own work is distinguished by an open, self-aware process and on innovative and expansive approach to research and rehearsal.	Yellow Back Books
20	TALKER #10: BARBY ASANTE by Giles Bailey	Talker is an interview zine about performance. Issue 10 is a conversation with Barby Asante. Barby is a London-based artist, curator, educator and occasional DJ. Her work is concerned with the politics of place, space memory and the histories and legacies of colonialism. The work is collaborative, performative and dialogic, often working with groups of people as contributors, collaborators or co-researchers. This issue focuses on her live work, from South London community intervention Noise Summit to her intricate, iterative project Declaration of Independence. The interview explores the crucial role of contributor-performers' and the challenges of presenting performances online.	Yellow Back Books
21	Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams	A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, grows up in a small town on the coast of north Wales. From there she travels to Africa, the Caribbean and finally back to Wales. Sugar & Slate is a story of movement and dislocation in which there is a constant pull of to-ing and fro-ing, going away and coming back with always a sense of being 'half home'. This is both a personal memoir and a story that speaks to the wider experience of mixed-race Britons. It is a story of Welshness and a story of Wales and above all a story for those of us who look over our shoulder across the sea to some other place.	Kirsti Bohata (also recommended by Kandace Siobhan Walker and Corinne Fowler)	x
22	Slave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850 by Chris Evans	Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1660 and 1850. It casts light on episodes such as Welsh involvement with slave-based copper mining in 19th-century Cuba.	Corinne Fowler	x
23	Sioned Puw Rowlands, Hwyaid, Cwningod a Sgwarnogod	Discusses the aesthetic in the context of the politics of marginal communities. This involves the comparison of articles written by Welsh author and poet, Twm Morys, and two Czech authors, Bouhmil Hrabal and Vaclav Havel.	Rowan O'Neill
24	Shy Radicals, by HAMJA AHSAN	Drawing together communiqués, covert interviews, oral and underground history of introvert struggles (Introfada), here for the first time is a detailed documentation of the political demands of shy people. Radicalised against the imperial domination of globalised PR projectionism, extrovert poise and loudness, the Shy Radicals and their guerrilla wing the Shy Underground are a vanguard movement intent on trans-rupting consensus extrovert-supremacist politics and assertiveness culture of the twenty first century. The movement aims to establish an independent homeland – Aspergistan, a utopian state for introverted people, run according to Shyria Law and underpinned by Pan-Shyist ideology, protecting the rights of the oppressed quiet and shy people.	Yellow Back Books
25	Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt	In this deeply personal reckoning with race and belonging, Tessa interweaves her own experiences as a mixed-race woman with a stark and unvarnished history of slavery and indenture, as well as observations on literature and popular culture.	Alberta Whittle, reading list alongsider her Creating dangerously (we-I insist!) trilogy
26	Resources of Hope, Raymond Williams	This book brings together important early writings including “Culture is Ordinary,” “The British Left,” “Welsh Culture” and “Why Do I Demonstrate?” with major essays and talks of the last decade. It includes work on such central themes as the nature of a democratic culture, the value of community, Green socialism, the nuclear threat, and the relation between the state and the arts.	Peak Team, as part of a programme around marking the centenary of Raymond Williams' birth
27	Poor, Caleb Femi	In Poor, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham. He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives.	Muneera Pilgrim
28	Plantation memories, Grada Kilomba	Plantation Memories is a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. From the question Where do you come from? to Hair Politics to the N-word, the book is a strong, eloquent, and elaborate piece, which deconstructs the normality of everyday racism and exposes the violence of being placed as the Other.	Melissa Rodrigues
29	Patriarchaeth (Issue 1)		Dylan Huw
30	Otherlands by Thomas Halliday	Otherlands is a journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant.	Alan Bowring
31	ON CARE, edited by Rebecca Jagoe & Sharon Kivland	Care is a matter of responsibility for human and nonhuman allies, an ecological network. Care is an imperative, and acting with care approaches the world beyond selfhood. ON CARE, an aggregate of voices, discusses the politics of caring, support, and the role of welfare in an increasingly neoliberal society. It questions who is seen as worthy of care, whose narratives are given attention, and whose lives are overlooked in a complex web of assemblages: conceptions of medical authority, the co-option of self-care in political rhetoric, care as a commodity in the hospitality industry, intergenerational intimacy, sexecology; care as utopian and care as transactional. ON CARE maps a constellation of perspectives, as testaments, fictions, and essays, addressing the relation between good health, interdependence, and the ethics of (self)care.	Yellow Back Books
32	My Body Can House Two Hearts by Hanan Issa	MY BODY CAN HOUSE TWO HEARTS skips across the fragile boundaries of history, culture, relationships, and language. It explores the transitory balance of belonging by tying threads between different places and ideas not often compared. Traverse the poet's perception of her Welsh and Iraqi heritage, her positioning as a woman of colour, and the nuances of feminist action. My Body Can House Two Hearts is a celebration of women's redemptive interdependency and the rejection of patriarchal power.	Marvin Thompson	x
33	Mint 1.5		Yellow Back Books
34	Mint 1		Yellow Back Books
35	Mari Elin Jones, Gwyrddach		Dylan Huw
36	LUMIN Journals 1 - 4		Peak Team
37	Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora	Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Publications Unit, Department of English, Illinois State University, a body corporate and politic of the State of Illinois and a 501(c)(3) recognized charitable and non-profit organization	Marva Jackson Lord
38	Leonora Brito, DAT'S LOVE AND OTHER STORIES	Leonora Brito was a writer of exceptional stories. Her professional creative life covered a relatively short period of time, from the early 1990s to her death in 2007, during which she produced an acclaimed collection of short fiction, Dat’s Love, in addition to writing for radio and television. Brito’s stories engage primarily with the Cardiff of her youth, most notably the Docks and Tiger Bay. She was the first of a group of writers who heralded a feminist renaissance in short story writing in Wales. Her stories are full of light and life, and the descriptions are marked by an unusual exactness and sense of place. They are unique in Welsh fiction in that they present an insider’s perspective on a Black history and culture of Wales only alluded to by other writers. She was working on a second collection at the time her death.	Kandace Siobhan Walker
39	Jackie Kay, Trumpet	Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Trumpet by Jackie Kay is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love. It is a moving story of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, of loving deception and lasting devotion, and of the intimate workings of the human heart.	Nia Morais
40	It's Freezing in LA	t's Freezing in LA! prints environmental slow journalism. IFLA! is a critically acclaimed independent magazine with a fresh take on climate change. Printed bi-annually, they find the ground between science and activism, inviting writers and illustrators from a variety of fields to give their view on how climate change will affect — and is affecting — society.
41	In The Shadow Of Slavery, Africa's Botanical Legacy in The Atlantic World - Judith A.Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff	The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "In the Shadow of Slavery" provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment.	Dee Woods
42	Idle Women of the Water, Idle Women	Part manifesto, part social history and part travelogue in the form of a graphic novel, Idle Women On the Water tells the story of Idle Women and their mission to make space for women on the canals and tow paths of North West England. Navigating the edgy backwaters of post-industrial Lancashire, Yorkshire and Merseyside on their purpose-built narrowboat, the Selina Cooper, Idle Women take the fight for women’s rights back to the birthplace of women’s suffrage.	Owen Griffiths
43	Hen Chwedlau Newydd	Cyfrol o straeon byrion sy’n codi cymeriadau cyfarwydd o’u byd chwedlonol, a’u taflu i mewn i’n byd ni heddiw. Mae’n syndod mor berthnasol yw profiadau cymeriadau fel Blodeuwedd, Melangell a Dwynwen i’n profiadau ni. Straeon trawiadol gan awduron profiadol, dychmygus: Angharad Tomos, Bethan Gwanas, Gareth Evans-Jones, Manon Steffan Ros, Lleucu Roberts, Seran Dolma a Heiddwen Tomos.	Dylan Huw
44	Haf o Hyder	A volume of 7 short stories and 7 poems/brand new songs on the theme of wellbeing. Each one is uplifting, and is written by well-known authors such as Eurig Salisbury and Llŷr Gwyn Lewis and new authors such as Nia Morais and Ifan Pritchard. Published jointly by Y Lolfa and the National Eisteddfod.	Dylan Huw
45	Gwarth ar y Teulu (Issue 1)	Zine am siom a cywilydd yn y byd Cymraeg ydi Gwarth Ar Y Teulu - gofod i’r pobl sydd ddim yn ffitio mewn i herio ac rantio am y pethau sy’n neud nhw deimlo’n flin...….sud fedra ni disgwyl chwyldro, os mae pawb mor blydi cwrtais? Dyma zine gan y misfits, y cwiars, y dosbarth gweithiol ag y radical… Mae’r zine yn 36 tudalen wedi printio mewn lliw, mae’r clawr wedi ei ddylunio gan Twinkle & Gloom, artist o Ogledd Cymru..// The zine includes a lot of Welsh-language content, but also some in English and a lot of art. However if you don’t speak Welsh there is a lot of content you won’t be able to read – we still think it’s worth getting one if you’re interested in Welsh music and art! The zine is loosely about shame, it’s a space for people who don’t fit in to tease and rant about the things that make them angry… how can we expect a revolution when everyone is so fucking polite? This is a zine by the misfits, quuers, working class and radical… It’s 36 pages, printed in full colour. The cover is printed by Twinkle & Gloom, a North Wales artist.	Dylan Huw
46	Grug Muse, Merch y Llyn	Yn y 'bargeinio rhwng meddalwch a chadernid' y mae cerddi ail gyfrol Grug Muse yn digwydd; yn y cyrff o ddwr sy'n ddihangfa ac yn fygythiad yn un gwynt. Mae haenau daeareg yn datgelu haenau'r hunan, mewn gwaith sy'n dangos fod y ffin rhwng poen a phleser, rhwng y cignoeth a'r synhwyrus, mewn gwirionedd yn denau iawn.	Dylan Huw
47	Glitch Feminism a Manifesto by Legacy Russell	Glitch Feminism is a vital new chapter in cyberfeminism, one that explores the relationship between gender, technology and identity. In an urgent manifesto, Russell reveals the many ways that the glitch performs and transforms.	Alberta Whittle, reading list alongsider her Creating dangerously (we-I insist!) trilogy
48	FRESHWATER - Akwaeke Emezi	An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities.	Nia Morais
49	Frank Olding, Cycles	A collection of poetry on the magical relationships between the layers of history and mythology.
50	Ffosfforws (Issue 1)		Dylan Huw
51	Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer	In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world.	Lucy Sames
52	Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, adrienne marie brown	Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.	Fin Jordão	x
53	Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Holstun Lopez	At once a cri de coeur and a memoir of both pain and wonder, this remarkable collection of essays adds indelibly to Lopez's legacy, and includes previously unpublished works, some written in the months before his death. They unspool memories both personal and political, among them tender, sometimes painful stories of his childhood in New York City and California, reports from expeditions to study animals and sea life, recollections of travels to Antarctica and other extraordinary places on earth, and meditations on finding oneself amid vast, dramatic landscapes. He reflects on those who taught him, including Indigenous elders and scientific mentors who sharpened his eye for the natural world. We witness poignant returns from his travels to the sanctuary of his Oregon backyard, adjacent to the McKenzie River. And in prose of searing candor, he reckons with the cycle of life, including his own, and-as he has done throughout his career-with the dangers the earth and its people are facing	Simon Whitehead
54	Dychmygu Iaith by Mererid Hopwood	Beth yw iaith?' Bu'r cwestiwn yn bwnc trafod maith ymhlith athronwyr, gwyddonwyr, addysgwyr a chymdeithasegwyr. Mewn ymgais i fwrw goleuni newydd ar y cwestiwn, try'r gyfrol hon at feirdd o Gymru a phedwar ban, gan holi sut y maen nhw wedi dychmygu iaith. 'What is language?' This question has been under extensive discussion by philosophers, scientists, educationalists and sociologists. In an attempt to throw new light on the subject, this volume turns to poets from Wales and beyond to examine how they imagine language.	Dylan Huw & Llinos Anwyl
55	dim eto (ed. Esyllt Lewis)	Mae dim eto yn casglu ynghyd ddarnau o waith celf gweledol sy’n wrthodedig gan yr artistiaid eu hunain – hynny yw, dyma gelf nad yw’r artistiaid yn hollol hapus gydag ef neu gelf na fydden nhw fel arfer yn dangos i’r cyhoedd. Yn ogystal â’r pentwr o drysor gweledol sy’n gweld golau dydd am y tro cyntaf, ceir rhagair craff gan Dylan Huw yn trafod y syniad o ‘gelf wrthodedig’.	Dylan Huw
56	Dancing in the Streets, A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich	In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and 'savage', Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greek's worship of Dionysus to the medieval practices of Christianity as a 'danced religion'. Exhilarating in its scholarly range, humane, witty and impassioned, Dancing in the Streets will generate debate and soul-searching.	Simon Whitehead
57	Codi Pais (Rhyddid)		Dylan Huw
58	CARE(LESS), edited by Gemma Blackshaw & Sharon Kivland	The harshest of lights shines on the question of care in the age of neo-liberalism and globalisation: who gets it, who needs it, who does it, who controls it. The Care research group at the Royal College of Art works in this light to ask how to care for human bodies in the inequitable societies COVID-19 has re-inscribed, through the activation of creative research practices as means of caring. Reflecting on the care phenomenon of 2020/21, the group invited the editors of ON CARE (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2020) to return to their book conceived before the pandemic. As part of that discussion, the group was asked to consider what is lack of care and what lacks in care. Their responses form this supplement to ON CARE, working with what was at hand, with what was missed, forgotten, neglected, ignored: CARE(LESS).	Yellow Back Books
59	Byw yn fy Nghroen		Dylan Huw
60	Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer	As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together.	Gwenllian Spink
61	Bodies of Water by Astrida Neimanis	Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them - from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it. Building on the works by Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, Astrida Neimanis's book is a landmark study that brings a new feminist perspective to bear on ideas of embodiment and ecological ethics in the posthuman critical moment.	Lucy Sames
62	Black Teeth, by Taylor Edmonds	Published 30/09/22 with Broken Sleep Books, Back Teeth examines girlhood, the feminine body, and the dark place within that snarls and roars with veined gums. Edmonds uses these startling poems as vehicles for identity, nature, and womanhood, unearthing an enchanting and frightening landscape. Edmonds’ bold, fierce poems give way to discovery through her sharp, vivid imagination. This is poetry that questions and challenges the world around it, pushing the limits of the known and creating new ground on which to walk.	Peak Team
63	bell hooks, All about love	Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love?".	Alberta Whittle, reading list alongsider her Creating dangerously (we-I insist!) trilogy
64	AUDRE LORDE: Dream of Europe, Selected Seminars and Interviews 1984-1992 Edited by Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro. Preface by Dagmar Schultz	AUDRE LORDE: DREAM OF EUROPE elucidates Lorde’s methodology as a poet, mentor, and activist during the last decade of her life. This volume compiles a series of seminars, interviews, and conversations held by the author and collaborators across Berlin, Western Europe, and The Caribbean between 1984-1992. While Lorde stood at the intersection of various historical and literary movements in The United States—the uprising of black social life after the Harlem Renaissance, poetry of the AIDS epidemic, and the unfolding of the Civil Rights Movement—this selection of texts reveals Lorde as a catalyst for the first movement of Black Germans in West Berlin.	Melissa Appleton
65	Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future By Carlos Garrido Castellano	Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art and cultural practices and did so decades before the acceptance of radical artistic practices by mainstream art institutions. Carlos Garrido Castellano argues that art activism has been confined to a limited spatial and temporal framework—that of Western culture and the modernist avant-garde. Assumptions about the individual creator and the belated arrival of derivative avant-garde aesthetics to the periphery have generated a narrow view of “political art” at the expense of our capacity to perceive a truly global alternative praxis. Garrido Castellano then illuminates such a praxis, focusing attention on socially engaged art from the Global South, challenging the supposed universality of Western artistic norms, and demonstrating the role of art in promoting and configuring a collective critical consciousness in postcolonial public spheres.	Llinos Anwyl
66	Archive of Destruction, edited by Jes Fernie	Archive of Destruction is a story-telling platform that brings together narratives around destruction and public art. Spanning a hundred years and many continents, it tells cumulative tales of vulnerability, interference, rage, fear, boredom and love. Flat Time House is a partner of the project which has been developed by independent curator and writer Jes Fernie. The first Archive of Destruction reader includes conversations, texts, stories, artworks, and pictures by artists, curators and writers, including Joe Namy, Marianne Wagner, Kasper König, Britta Peters, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Marysia Lewandowska, Horacio Zabala, Candice Purwin, and Joanna Rajkowska.	Yellow Back Books
67	A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand	Explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation.	Alberta Whittle, reading list alongsider her Creating dangerously (we-I insist!) trilogy
68	Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Raymond Williams	Raymond Williams' critical exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language. Neither a defining dictionary or glossary, KEYWORDS is rather an investigation into how the meanings of some of the most important words in the English language have shifted over time, and the forces that brought about those shifts.	Peak Team, as part of a programme around marking the centenary of Raymond Williams' birth
69	Border Country, Raymond Williams	Harry Price has worked for years as a railway signalman in the Welsh border village of Glynmawr. Now he has had a stroke, and his son, Matthew, a lecturer at Oxford, returns to the close-knit community that he left. As Harry lies in silent pain in his cramped bedroom, Matthew experiences the jarring familiarity of the childhood world which, alienated, he can no longer re-enter. Struggling with the unspoken tensions and losses that returning home has provoked, he recalls what has made him who he is. Upstairs his deeply thoughtful father recalls his own arrival in the village, the relationships between men during the General Strike, and the social and personal changes that followed, and he struggles to articulate all that has been left unsaid. A beautiful and moving portrait of the love between a father and son, and of the strength and resilience of a small community, Border Country is Raymond Williams' finest novel	Peak Team, as part of a programme around marking the centenary of Raymond Williams' birth
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