{"title":"Sylvère Lotringer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"kathy-acker-ultra-light-last-minute-ex-pop-literatur-merve-verlag-1990","title":"KATHY ACKER — Ultra light – last minute, ex + pop – literatur, Merve Verlag, Berlin, 1990","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, German-language collection, published by Merve Verlag, Berlin, 1990. Edited and translated by Almuth Carstens; with an interview by Sylvère Lotringer. Internationaler Merve Diskurs 155. Printed softcover; 163 pages; 12 × 17 cm. ISBN 3-88396-075-6.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e good; general age-toning, rubbing and surface marking to wrappers, with light creasing, edge wear and softened corners. Binding appears intact; interior condition not confirmed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by the influential West Berlin theory press Merve, this compact collection brings Acker’s writing into direct contact with questions of language, plagiarism, copyright, popular culture and literary ownership. The interview with Sylvère Lotringer is particularly important: Acker describes writing through existing texts less as passive copying than as movement around borrowed material — closer to improvisation, exchange and reuse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edition removes the familiar photographs, tattoos and punk imagery used to package many of Acker’s English-language books. In their place is Merve’s restrained publishing system: white card, a tilted green field and unadorned sans-serif type. A writer associated with transgression is reformatted as theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publisher records the book as out of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54099863208274,"sku":"ACKER-MERVE-CAT-1990","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_Kathy.Ultralight-lastminute.1990.jpg?v=1785061547"},{"product_id":"meckseper-josephine-catalogue-no-2-sternberg-press-2006","title":"JOSEPHINE MECKSEPER — The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 2, Sternberg Press, New York and Berlin, 2006","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second of Meckseper’s artist-designed catalogues, bringing together installations, photographs and display works from the period surrounding her participation in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Text by Sylvère Lotringer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeckseper adopts the visual structures of the boutique, department store and commercial catalogue to place political imagery beside luxury goods, reflective shelving and consumer objects. Demonstration and display are treated as parallel systems: both organise bodies, symbols and commodities for public circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover compresses that relationship into a single image. A hammer and sickle are photographed as polished merchandise against a reflective surface, while the reverse reproduces shattered glass. Revolution, damage and commercial design are retained within the finish of a carefully manufactured publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced during the Iraq War and the continued absorption of protest imagery into fashion and advertising, the catalogue does more than document Meckseper’s installations. It repeats their method. Political symbol, artwork and consumer object are isolated, sequenced and returned as merchandise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy remains unopened in its original Sternberg Press shrink-wrap, preserving the publication in the form in which it first entered circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24 × 24 cm. 48 pages. Softcover, unopened in the original publisher’s shrink-wrap; colour illustrations; text in English. Condition: unopened in the original publisher-issued shrink-wrap. The wrap shows rubbing, scratches, handling marks and minor pulling and creasing at the corners and edges. The book beneath remains sealed and has not been examined internally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54194444075346,"sku":"MECKSEPER-STERNBERG-CAT2-2006","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Meckseper_Josephine.TheJosephineMeckseperCatalogueNo.2.2006_ceb14a17-ed68-4e44-a2e5-f1f05a9e40db.jpg?v=1785998608"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/sylvere-lotringer.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}