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On design's complicity in systems of oppression: critique and exit strategies from the author of The Politics of DesignOur current economic system could not exist without the number systems, coins, banknotes, documents, advertisements, interfaces, typefaces and information graphics that graphic designers have helped to create. Even speculative design and social design play their part in fueling the economic system. Capitalism has brought tremendous wealth, but it has not done so evenly. Extreme income inequality and environmental destruction is the price future generations have to pay for unbridled economic growth. The question is whether ethical graphic design is even possible under such conditions.CAPS LOCK uses clear language and visual examples to show how graphic design and capitalism are inextricably linked. By sharing examples of radical design practices that challenge the supremacy of the market, it hopes to inspire a different kind of graphic design.Ruben Pater (born 1977) was trained as a graphic designer and works in journalism, activism, education and graphic design under the name Untold Stories. His work has received several international prizes and he has participated in many exhibitions worldwide. His first book, The Politics of Design (2016), has been an inspirational sourcebook for design students, artists and visual communicators in many different places and contexts; Eye on Design wrote: "It's the kind of literature that should be handed out to all students on their first days at art school, along with all the Albers, Berger, Benjamin and Sontag that form the backbone of the design curriculum--an up-to-date assessment of the landscape through which all modern visual practitioners must navigate."

Essays, manifestos and more on the ecological complexities and contradictions of the art industryThrough essays, interviews, poetry, manifestos, choreographic prompts, speculative fiction and case studies at the intersection of art and activism, culture and nature, Sensing Earth explores the aesthetic dimensions and contradictions of ecological consciousness.Artists and cultural initiatives are caught in a difficult bind, since they require cultural circulation to allow ideas to intersect and create meaningful connections. These same systems of circulation also contribute to the planet's ecological decline, not least in the footprint that accumulates from biennale to international residency to touring exhibition. This in turn raises the greater economic precarity of artists in the Global South. The writings in this volume (which is published in Valiz's Antennae series) tackle these and other issues attending the ecological complicity of the art industry.Authors include: Grégory Castéra, Marina Guzzo, Luciane Ramos Silva, Noel B. Salazar, Joy Mariama Smith, Naine Terena de Jesus, Dea Vidovic, André Wilkens and Ana Zuvela.

Ingredients for a true "world art studies"Aiming to encourage the study of art beyond national constraints and cultural domination, Mix & Stir proposes a voyage similar to that of culinary discovery, to arrive at a true "world art studies." Contributions are structured in seven themes: Undecidability and Spectatorship, Collectives, Circulations, Exhibitions, Artists at Work, Postcolonial Perspectives, and Deep Art History.Contributors include: Thomas J. Berghuis, Elisabeth de Bièvre, John Clark, Thomas DaCosta, Kaufmann, Parisa Damandan, Wilfried van Damme, Sophie Ernst, Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Paul Faber, Claire Farago, Anne Gerritsen, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyen, Isabel Hoving, Stijn Huijts, Joo Yun Lee, Nancy Jouwe, Remy Jungerman, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Meta Knol, Frans-Willem Korsten, Katja Kwastek, Sybille Lammes, Charl Landvreugd, Gregor Langfeld, Chris Lee, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Virginia MacKenny, Sarat Maharaj, Tirzo Martha, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Larissa Mendoza Straffon, Ni Haifeng, Stéphanie Noach, Anja Novak, John Onians, Rob Perrée, Georges Petitjean, Rosalien van der Poel, Jennifer Pranolo, Lize van Robbroeck, Pippa Skotnes, Henk Slager, Rudi Struik and many more.