FORMER WEST – Research Library

Research Library
The Research Library is a continually expanding curated selection of exhibition catalogs, artist monographs, art theory, and cultural studies publications as well as works from theory, postcolonial studies, political history, geopolitics, and other fields. Together these materials seek to provide an overview of the key exhibitions, artists, theories, and discourses that made a significant contribution to charting the shifts in contemporary art and intellectual debates from 1989 till today. The physical Library is housed at BAK; an online version of it, complete with a short entry on each publication explaining why the book is relevant to FORMER WEST project research, can be accessed below. Please note that the selection of artist monographs and catalogs of solo exhibitions is not available online at this time. We are happy to receive suggestions for books to include in the Research Library. Please send an e-mail with the book title, publication data, and a short message to info@formerwest.org. If you would like to visit the physical library at BAK in Utrecht, please schedule an appointment (during visiting hours, Wednesday–Saturday 12.00–17.00 hrs, Sunday 13.00–17.00 hrs) by sending an e-mail to info@bak-utrecht.nl.

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2010
The Aesthetic Unconscious	Jacques Rancière	Polity Press	2010	THE
The Communist Postscript	Boris Groys	Verso	2010	THE
The Communist Hypothesis	Alain Badiou	Verso	2010	THE
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics	Jacques Rancière	Continuum	2010	THE
The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the College de France, 1982–1983	Michel Foucault	Palgrave	2010	THE
Living in the End Times	Slavoj Žižek	Verso	2010	THE
The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)	Jean Baudrillard	London: Verso	2010	THE
A Society Adrift: Interviews and Debates, 1974–1997	Cornelius Castoriadis	Fordham University Press	2010	THE
2009
Aesthetics and Its Discontents	Jacques Rancière	Polity Press	2009	THE
The Aesthetics of Disappearance	Paul Virilio	New York: Semiotext(e)	2009	THE
Bunker Archaeology (1994)	Paul Virilio	Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press	2009	THE
Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays	Jürgen Habermas	London: Polity Press	2009	THE
A Companion to Marx’s Capital	David Harvey	Verso	2009	THE
Commonweath	Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri	Harvard University Press	2009	THE
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on Postmodernism 1983–1998	Fredric Jameson	Verso	2009	THE
The Democratic Paradox (Radical Thinkers)	Chantal Mouffe	Verso	2009	THE
The Emancipated Spectator	Jacques Rancière	Verso	2009	THE
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce	Slavoj Žižek	Verso	2009	THE
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?	Judith Butler	London: Verso	2009	THE
The Future of the Image (2007)	Jacques Rancière	London: Verso	2009	THE
The German Issue	Sylvère Lotringer	Semiotext(e)	2009	THE
Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas)	Susan Buck-Morss	University of Pittsburgh Press	2009	THE
Hatred of Democracy	Jacques Ranciére	Verso	2009	THE
Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech (Townsend Papers in the Humanities)	Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saga Mahmood	University of California Press	2009	THE
Ideologies of Theory	Fredric Jameson	Verso	2009	THE
Of an Obscure Disaster	Alain Badiou	Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Academie	2009	THE
Philosophy in the Present	Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek	Polity Press	2009	THE
The Signature of All Things: On Method	Giorgio Agamben	MIT Press and Zone Books	2009	THE
Soft Subversions: Texts and Interviews 1977–1985	Felix Guattari	Semiotext(e)	2009	THE
Theory of the Subject	Alain Badiou	Continuum	2009	THE
Violence: Six sideways reflections	Slavoj Žižek	Profile Books	2009	THE
Zone des Übergangs: Vom Ende des Postkommunismus	Boris Buden	Suhrkamp	2009	THE
2008
Autonomia: Post-Political Politics	Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi	Semiotext(e)	2008	THE
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979	Michel Foucault	Palgrave	2008	THE
The Century	Alain Badiou	Polity Press	2008	THE
Goodbye Mr. Socialism. Radical Politics in the 21st Century	Antonio Negri with Raf Scelsi	New York/London: Seven Stories and Serpent’s Tail	2008	THE
Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx	Michael Sprinker	Verso	2008	THE
Gender Trouble (1990)	Judith Butler	London: Routledge	2008	THE
The Inoperative Community (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 76) (1991)	Jean-Luc Nancy	Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press	2008	THE
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance	Simon Critchley	Verso	2008	THE
The Meaning of Sarkozy	Alain Badiou	London: Verso	2008	THE
On the Political (Thinking in Action) (2005)	Chantal Mouffe	London: Routledge	2008	THE
Pure War: 25 Years Later (Semiotext(e)/Foreign Agents) (1983)	Paul Virilio	New York: Semiotext(e)	2008	THE
Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)	Fredric Jameson	Durham: Duke University Press	2008	THE
Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (New Directions in Critical Theory)	Nancy Fraser	Columbia University Press	2008	THE
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)	Slavoj Žižek	London: Verso	2008	THE
The Three Ecologies	Felix Guattari	Continuum	2008	THE
Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics (2006)	Rosi Braidotti	London: Polity Press	2008	THE
The Urgency of Theory (The State of the World)	Antonio Pinto Ribeiro	Carcanet Press	2008	THE
World at Risk	Ulrich Beck	Polity Press	2008	THE
2007
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions	Fredric Jameson	Verso	2007	THE
Art as Far as the Eye Can See	Paul Virilio	Berg Publishers	2007	THE
The Coming Community : (Theory Out of Bounds) (1993)	Giorgio Agamben	Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press	2007	THE
Figures of the Thinkable (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)	Cornelius Castoriadis	Stanford University Press	2007	THE
Ideology: An Introduction	Terry Eagleton	Verso	2007	THE
Liquid Fear (2006)	Zygmunt Bauman	Cambridge: Polity Press	2007	THE
Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic	Fredric Jameson	Verso	2007	THE
On Populist Reason (2005)	Ernesto Laclau	London: Verso	2007	THE
The Politics of Truth	Michel Foucault	Semiotext(e)	2007	THE
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977-78	Michel Foucault	Hampshire: Palgrave	2007	THE
The State of the World	Antonio Pinto Ribeiro	Carcanet	2007	THE
Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging	Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak	Chicago University Press	2007	THE
2006
Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War	Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews & Michael Watts (Retort),(2005)	London: Verso	2006	THE
Cosmopolitan Vision	Ulrich Beck	Polity Press	2006	THE
The Divided West	Jürgen Habermas	London: Polity Press	2006	THE
How to Read Lacan	Slavoj Žižek	London: Granta Books	2006	THE
The Information Bomb (Radical Thinkers) (2000)	Paul Virilio	London: Verso	2006	THE
Memory, History, Forgetting	Paul Ricoeur	University of Chicago Press	2006	THE
On the Shores of Politics	Jacques Rancière	Verso	2006	THE
The Politics of Aesthetics (2004)	Jacques Rancière	London: Continuum	2006	THE
Polemics	Alain Badiou	London: Verso	2006	THE
Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (2004)	Judith Butler	London: Verso	2006	THE
Spectres of Marx. The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International (1994)	Jacques Derrida	London: Routledge	2006	THE
Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003)	Susan Buck-Morss	London: Verso	2006	THE
2005
The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Texts, Interviews	Jean Baudrillard	Semiotext(e)	2005	THE
For Marx (Radical Thinkers)	Louis Althusser	Verso	2005	THE
How to Read Marx	Peter Osborne	London: Granta Books	2005	THE
Iraq. The Borrowed Kettle (2004)	Slavoj Žižek	London: Verso	2005	THE
Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return of Philosophy	Alain Badiou	London: Continuum	2005	THE
Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy	Ulrich Beck	Polity Press	2005	THE
The Return of the Political (1993)	Chantal Mouffe	London: Verso	2005	THE
2004
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia	Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari	Continuum	2004	THE
Difference and Repetition	Gilles Deleuze	Continuum	2004	THE
The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature	Pierre Bourdieu	Polity Press	2004	THE
Handbook of Inaesthetics	Alain Badiou	Stanford University Press	2004	THE
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire	Michael Hardt and Antoni Negri	New York: Penguin	2004	THE
On Anxiety (Thinking in Action)	Renate Salecl	Routledge	2004	THE
The Philosopher and His Poor	Jacques Rancière	Duke University Press	2004	THE
Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings	Slavoj Žižek	Verso	2004	THE
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia	Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari	Continuum	2004	THE
2003
Capitalism and Citizenship: The Impossible Partnership	Kathryn Dean	Routledge	2003	THE
Debating Empire (New Left Review Debates)	Gopal Balakrishnan	Verso	2003	THE
Deleuze and the Political	Paul Patton	Routledge	2003	THE
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity	Slavoj Žižek	MIT Press	2003	THE
Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida	Giovanna Borrodori	Chicago: University of Chicago Press	2003	THE
We the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2003)	Étienne Balibar	Princeton: Princeton University Press	2003	THE
2002
The Arcades Project	Walter Benjamin	Harvard University Press	2002	THE
Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2000)	Susan Buck-Morss	Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press	2002	THE
Politics and the Other Scene (Phronesis)	Étienne Balibar	London: Verso	2002	THE
Religion and Rationality: Essays on Reason, God and Modernity	Jürgen Habermas	London: Blackwell	2002	THE
Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates	Slavoj Žižek	London: Verso	2002	THE
2001
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions in the Mis(use) of a Notion	Slavoj Žižek	London: Verso	2001	THE
Empire (2000)	Michael Hardt and Antoni Negri	Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press	2001	THE
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy : Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (1985)	Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe	London: Verso	2001	THE
Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader (Double Agents)	Chris Kraus and Sylvere Lotringer	Semiotext(e)	2001	THE
On Belief (Thinking in Action)	Slavoj Žižek	Routledge	2001	THE
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Thinking in Action)	Jacques Derrida	Routledge	2001	THE
2000
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality. Contemporary Dialogues on the Left	Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek	London: Verso	2000	THE
Of Hospitality	Jacques Derrida	Stanford: Stanford University Press	2000	THE
What’s Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory	Judith Butler, John Guillory, and Kendall Thomas	Routledge	2000	THE
1999
The Challenge of Carl Schmitt	Chantal Mouffe	London: Verso	1999	THE
Disagreement. Politics and Philosophy	Jacques Rancière	University of Minnesota Press	1999	THE
Lyotard and the Political (Thinking the Political)	James Williams	Routledge	1999	THE
1998
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life	Giorgio Agamben	Stanford: Stanford University Press	1998	THE
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy	Gilles Deleuze	City Lights Books	1998	THE
1997
A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany	Jürgen Habermas	University of Nebraska Press	1997	THE
Excitable Speech: Politics of the Performative	Judith Butler	Routledge	1997	THE
Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics	Thomas Keenan	Stanford: Stanford University Press	1997	THE
Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition	Nancy Fraser	Routledge	1997	THE
New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time	Ernesto Laclau	Verso	1997	THE
Retreating the Political (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy)	Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy	London: Routledge	1997	THE
1996
Emancipation(s)	Ernesto Laclau	Verso	1996	THE
Foucault Live: Interviews, 1961–1984	Michel Foucault	Semiotext(e)	1996	THE
1995
Foucault and the Political (Thinking the Political)	Jonathan Simons	Routledge	1995	THE
1994
Making of Political Identities	Ernesto Laclau	Verso	1994	THE
Simulacra and Simulation	Jean Baudrillard,	Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press	1994	THE
What is Philosophy?	Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari	Verso	1994	THE
1992
Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community	Chantal Mouffe	London: Verso	1992	THE
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place	Jean Baudrillard	Indianapolis: Indiana University Press	1992	THE
1991
Discipline & Punish. The Birth of the Prison(1977)	Michel Foucault	New York: Penguin	1991	THE
Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy: Essays in Political Philosophy	Cornelius Castoriadis	Oxford University Press	1991	THE
Strangers to Ourselves	Julia Kristeva	New York: Columbia University Press	1991	THE
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature	Donna Haraway	London: Free Association Books	1991	THE
1990
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature	Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said	Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press	1990	THE
1989
America (1988)	Jean Baudrillard	London: Verso	1989	THE
1988
The Practice of Everyday Life (1984)	Michel de Certeau	Berkeley: University of California Press	1988	THE
1986
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984)	Jean-Francois Lyotard	Manchester: Manchester University Press	1986	THE
The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism	Claude Lefort	MIT Press	1986	THE
1980
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the ‘Phenomenology of the Spirit'	Alexandre Kojève	Cornell University Press	1980	THE
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings 1972-1977	Michel Foucault	New York: Pantheon Books	1980	THE

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