Tag Archives: Nightboat Books

Open to the World (Say Yes)

8th February 2022The Library of the Future, UncategorizedCaroline Bergvall, Nightboat BooksMinus Plato

Every time you open a book, you say yes to a world. – anonymous (after Caroline Bergvall)

How Do You Show Somebody Reading the Sea? Etel Adnan and The Otolith Group in 2011

16th November 2021The Library of the Future, UncategorizedEtel Adnan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nightboat Books, The Otolith GroupMinus Plato

“2012 is the year of Etel Adnan” – Hans Ulrich Obrist at Art Dubai, March 2012 But what of 2011? Or 2021, the year of Etel Adnan’s death. What is a year anyway? Adnan died a few days ago, on Sunday November 14th, so what do the years even mean within the posthumous dates of […]

Ban’s Bibliomancy

29th August 2021UncategorizedBhanu Kapil, Camera Lucida, Nightboat Books, Roland Barthes, The Library of the FutureMinus Plato

Trying to make myself write some sort of commentary on the latest “emergency” reportage, I tear up my notes as soon as I write them. – Roland Barthes Some books whisper to me as I pass through the shelves I haunt. The final pages of Bhanu Kapil’s Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat Books 2015) , amid […]