Published first online in 2023, Etherum founder Vitalik Buterin’s essay My Techno-Optimism instantly became a canonical text of twenty-first century humanism. In it, Buterin replies to modernity’s most rancorous cynics and cautions its most reckless techno-fetishists. To navigate humanity’s pivotal century, Buterin proposes "d/acc," a nuanced approach to technological acceleration that prioritizes human agency, democratic innovations, and decentralization.

with an introduction by David C. Krakauer

Against the surreal backdrop of Disneyland in 1978, visionary science fiction author Philip K. Dick delivers a mind-bending lecture on the fragile nature of reality and the quest for authentic human experience in an increasingly mediated world.

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CHARISMATIC SPIRALS is for an America circa 2024, where poetry—the art of developing new means of speaking—has never been of such artistic, technological, and political consequence.

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Penned by the inimitable Sjón, a novelist, poet, and lyricist hailed by Junot Diaz as "the trickster who makes the world," UNDER THE WINGS OF THE VALKYRIE is an exploration of eroticism in extremism. Published in Icelandic in 1994, this short and intense story, Sjón writes, is "more transgressive than anything ever published by me in the English language."

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A BOOK OF MY OWN tells the story of Mukasonga’s self: her name, her exile, how her identity took shape—to “rebuild,” as she puts it “a lost world from memory and preserve the dignity of humanity.”

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with Daisy Hildyard and Precious Okoyomon

EVER GAIA is an introduction to the life and work of James Lovelock, whose way of seeing—“perhaps his greatest legacy,” Obrist writes—will continue to shape our world and our place within it for decades to come.

• Foreword by
• Tim Lenton

in partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre, featuring the War Diary of Yevgenia Belorusets.

• Forewords by
• Timothy Snyder and Yuval Noah Harari
• Nan Goldin

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THE ARCHIPELAGO CONVERSATIONS introduces the most important philosopher of the twenty-first century to a popular audience—a ready-to-hand tool for building an interdependent earth.

• Foreword by
• Trinh T. Minh-ha

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MODERN ANIMAL knots together humans and animals, retelling the folktales, memories, and visions of the people—bourgeois, urban, rural, Roma, working class—encountered by Belorusets on a multiyear journey through Eastern Ukraine.

• Foreword by
• Peter Greenaway

STREET COP sees two literary masters joining forces to scrutinize the arc of the American myth. Art Spiegelman’s first original book in more than a decade, this detective novelette explores contemporary politics, the future of urban life, and the working of memory in a digital world.

• Foreword by
• Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman

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PURPLE PERILLA is a cycle of three short stories by the avant-garde Chinese writer Can Xue. Moving from an urban center into wilderness, they explore human confrontations with the unknown.

• Forewords by
• Scholastique Mukasonga

F LETTER: NEW RUSSIAN FEMINIST POETRY assembles the feminist poets who have palpably changed the Russian language over the past decade. Against the backdrop of state violence and oppression, this is electric dissent in pursuit of a democratic, egalitarian future.

• Forewords by
• Eileen Myles
• Amia Srinivasan

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SALMON: A RED HERRING accounts for how we ended up in a deceptive world where sparrows molt pink, dogs turn blue, and honey glows maraschino red; where pharaohs tint paint, laptops flavor fog, and farms feed color.

• Forewords by
• Hannah Landecker
• Bruno Latour
• David Zilber
• Hans Ulrich Obrist

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