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Chimurenga 01: Music is the Weapon!

Ntone Edjabe and Ntone Edjabe

Njabulo Ndebele on Brenda Fassie, Ntone Edjabe on Fela Kuti, Julian Jonker on Sun Ra, DJ Spooky on Coltrane, Henri Kala Lobe on MC Solaar, Gael Reagon on Moses Molelekwa, and many others.
Chimurenga 04: Black Gays & Mugabes

Chimurenga Press and Ntone Edjabe

On desire and its discontents. Featuring a new adaptation of Yambo Ouologuem erotica, and new works by Kopano Ratele, Kalamu ya Salaam, Gael Reagon, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Zackie Achmat, Toure, Muthoni Garland, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kgafela oa Magogodi, Mukoma wa Ngugi and others.
Chimurenga 05: Head/Body (& Tools)/Corpses

Chimurenga Press and Ntone Edjabe

"If white people didn't invent air what would we breathe?" An issue inspired by the life and work of Bessie Head. Including previously unpublished works by Head, and featuring new writing and art by Jean Claude Fignole, Charles Mudede, Greg Tate, Olu Oguibe, Chimamanda Adichie, Sandile Dikeni, Khulile Nxumalo, Tanure Ojaide, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Muthoni Garland, Pravasan Pillay and others.
Chimurenga 06: Orphans of Fanon

Chimurenga Press and Ntone Edjabe

A series of conversations, real and imagined, on the “pitfalls of national consciousness” by Mustapha Benfodil, Achille Mbembe, Charles Mudede, Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem, Robert Fraser, Branwen Okpako, Leila Sebbar, Binyavanga Wainaina, Laurie Gunst, Olu Oguibe and many others
Chimurenga 11: Conversations with Poets Who Refuse to Speak

Chimurenga Press and Ntone Edjabe

This issue is about silence, disappearing oneself as act. Though it’s often one of abdication, could it be defiance, resistance even? – a challenging idea, in a culture where struggle about seeking exposure, giving voice, making visible and all that stuff...See the Webvert by Stacy Hardy and François Naudé.
Chimurenga 15: The Curriculum is Everything

Ntone Edjabe and Ntone Edjabe

Through fiction, essays, interviews, poetry, photography and art, contributors examine and redefine rigid notions of essential knowledge. Contributors include Amiri Baraka, Coco Fusco, Karen Press, Steve Coleman, Dambudzo Marechera Binyavanga Wainaina, Akin Adesokan, Isoje Chou, Sean O’Toole, Pradip Krishen, E. C. Osundu, Salim Washington, Sefi Atta, Ed Pavlic, Neo Muyanga, Henri-Michel Yere, Medu Arts Ensemble, Aryan Kaganof, Khulile Nxumalo, Walter Mosley and many others.
New Observations #130 | On the Addressee

Mia Feroleto and Pedro A.H. Paixão

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
New Observations #131 | Industrial Hemp: Superhero / Savior of Humanity

Mia Feroleto

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
New Observations #132 | Conciousness and Contact

Mia Feroleto and Alan Steinfeld

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
New Observations #133 | Real ≠ Reality: The Transgression of Fact

Mia Feroleto and Leah Poller

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
New Observations #134 | Valentine

Mia Feroleto and Peggy Cyphers

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
New Observations #135 | The Pine Ridge Reservation Prisoner of War Camp #344

Mia Feroleto and Robert Felix

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
"This issue of New Observations is meant to explore the American Indian Movement, the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier and the fact that in any other country, Leonard and John Red Cloud would be released [from prison]..." - Mia Feroleto, Publisher & Editor
New Observations #136 | Conciousness and Contact -The Awakening-

Mia Feroleto

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
New Observations #137 | Caught in the Dark Net of Our Own Past, Breaking Free of What Holds Americans Hostage

Mia Feroleto and The New Observations Community and Beyond

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
New Observations #138 | The Extended Moment: The Photography and Writing of Ray Grasse

Mia Feroleto

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org. This issue is dedicated to the many talents of Ray Grasse. https://www.raygrassephotography.com.
New Observations #139 | A Fresh Look at What the 1938 to 1945 Economy can Tell Us About the Future of America

Mia Feroleto and Stephen Paul Miller

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org. A Taboo Overview. "The Good War" and the Late New Deal.
New Observations #140 | The Rudolf Steiner Lens in the 21st Century

Mia Feroleto and Elana Freeland

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
New Observations #141 | Step Right Up! The Circus Comes to Town

Mia Feroleto and Brenda Zlamany

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
The Chemarts Cookbook

Pirjo Kääriäinen, Liisa Tervinen, Tapani Vuorinen, and Nina Riutta

Aalto University publication series. ; C 1/2020. Includes bibliographical references and index. How can we make flexible and transparent wood-based materials? What kinds of materials can we derive from trees, while still respecting the preciousness of nature? Could the innovative use of renewable cellulosic materials change our material world? The CHEMARTS Cookbook gives both simple and more advanced ideas and recipes for hands-on experiments with wood-based materials. The book showcases the most interesting explorations focusing on raw materials that are processed either chemically or mechanically from trees or other plants: cellulose fibres, micro- or nano-structured fibrils, cellulose derivatives, lignin, bark and wood extractives.

"CHEMARTS is the long-term collaboration project of two Aalto University schools: the School of Chemical Engineering (CHEM) and the School of Arts, Design, and Architecture (ARTS). These schools combined forces in 2011 with the aim of researching bio-based materials in an innovative way and creating new concepts for their advanced use. The core values of CHEMARTS are the sustainable use of natural resources, experimental working methods, and the respectful cross-pollination of design and material research.CHEMARTS arranges multidisciplinary study courses and a Summer School for degree students, thesis projects, and workshops for elementary and high school students. It also participates in externally funded research projects. The recipes of The CHEMARTS Cookbook were developed and tested by students and staff in 2014-2019 in the CHEMARTS Laboratory in Finland." -- Page 7.