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ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts.

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Book Cover for: Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany, Sara Blaylock

Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany

Sara Blaylock
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Kimber Chewning reviews Sara Blaylock's "Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany": "Blaylock addresses artist-created media and practices that formed communities state socialism failed to facilitate." Read more now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/bcNXFC5IcS

Hardcover, 2022

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction Volume 50, David Farrier

Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction Volume 50

David Farrier
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"'I wanted to make climate change fun,' Grimes explained, as her then-partner sent rockets into space. '…It’s going to be super tight.'" Read @mollymacv review of David Farrier’s, "Anthropocene Poetics" now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/jAZB4091Bx

Paperback, 2019

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art, Marisel C. Moreno

Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art

Marisel C. Moreno
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.@LukeUrbain on Marisel C. Moreno’s monograph 'Crossing Waters' (2022): "Moreno, borders are often spaces of exception, not all of which coincide with a land-based boundary." Read the whole review now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/cWzJZzhLgk

Paperback, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics, Cajetan Iheka

African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics

Cajetan Iheka
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In the new "Provocations", Comfort Chioma Azubuko-Udah, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, and Rebecca S. Oh explore Cajetan Iheka’s "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics". Read now on ASAP/J! https://t.co/5W7dFu0QwT

Hardcover, 2021

$107.95$82.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Breathing Aesthetics, Jean-Thomas Tremblay

Breathing Aesthetics

Jean-Thomas Tremblay
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In the latest "Uncanny Juxtapositions", Laurel V. McLaughlin reviews Jemison's 'A Rock A River A Street' and Tremblay's 'Breathing Aesthetics': "For Tremblay and Jemison, breathwork is not a given, but it is precarious labor." Read more now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/j8Ec48ezBf

Paperback, 2022

$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair, Michael Dango

Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair

Michael Dango
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In the latest "Books in Conversation", our own @michaeldango and Patricia Stuelke speak about their recent monographs "Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair" (Stanford UP, 2021) and "The Ruse of Repair" (Duke UP, 2021). Read more now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/mCO0PI9emH

Paperback, 2021

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film, Ilana Dann Luna

Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film

Ilana Dann Luna
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Anthony Gottlich reviews Dann Luna's "Adapting Gender": “Dann Luna … proposes a new rubric for analyzing film adaption as a ‘feminist strategy’… [to] deconstruct the relationship between storytelling and national mythmaking.” Read more now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/3orXGSu8g1

Paperback, 2019

$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age, Jessica Pressman

Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age

Jessica Pressman
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"I think we are experiencing a moment of rethinking and appreciating books anew. That is what 'Bookishness' is really trying to do", says @jesspres in conversation with Tina Lumbis. Read the third part of 'Summer Books in Conversation' now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/HOzSPZ0ET4

Paperback, 2020

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital, Marco Codebò

Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital

Marco Codebò
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Václav Paris reviewed @thegreatkellino's EXTRATERRITORIAL along with Marco Codebò’s NOVELS OF DISPLACEMENT. 3/5 https://t.co/vopuW5z2AH

Hardcover, 2020

$79.95$54.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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In "Losing Edges", @SarahMDowling1 explores "reclining figures in two artworks", the soft edge between Rebecca Belmore’s photograph "Fringe" (2007) and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s novel "Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies" (2020). https://t.co/oP8Hz1jIpq

Paperback, 2022

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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