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Chimurenga 01: Music is the Weapon!
Chimurenga Press 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.
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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.
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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 Including previously unpublished works by Head, and featuring new writing and art by Jean Claude Fignole, Charles Mudede, Greg Tate, Olu Oguibe, Chimamanda Adichie, Sandile Dikeni, Khulile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.
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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
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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.
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Chimurenga 15: The Curriculum is Everything
Chimurenga Press 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New Observations #142 | Wounded Knee: Healing the Heartbeat of America
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.
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New Observations #143 | Let the Walls Come Tumbling Down: Free Political Prisoners Now!
Mia Feroleto, Paulette Dauteuil-Robideau, and The Jericho Movement
New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written, edited, and published by the arts community. For more information visit newobservations.org.
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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.