Whispers from the Bookshelf

Editorial Platform of the Institute for Postnatural Studies

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Institute for Postnatural Studies
September 28, 2023

Dear readers,

We are happy to introduce you to Cthulhu Books Newsletter, our occasional updates from our Editorial Platform.

Cthulhu Books brings together reflections and worlds that derive from distinct perspectives, emerging new ways of talking about nature and suggesting malleable relationships between words and what they describe.

Cthulhu Books fosters relationships between different fields of knowledge, blurring the boundaries between artistic and academic research, theory and practice, science and art, culture and nature. It aims to make visible new modes of coexistence that go beyond the traditional canons and open other possibilities to narrate ourselves and our environment.

Cthulhu Books wants to imagine worlds within worlds, beings within universes, that may provide new frameworks from which to understand and act in the face of the contemporary ecological crisis.

Upcoming News

MiraLookBooks Fair

MiraLookBooks is the International Meeting of Publications Specialized in Contemporary Culture that will take place at Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga in Madrid on October 6, 7 and 8, 2023, in which more than 190 publishing projects from 21 countries in Africa, Europe and the Americas.

MiraLookBooks has the vocation of establishing itself as a preferred distribution channel of editorial content of contemporary creation in this axis by emphasizing the production in Spanish and establishing itself as a privileged channel of content from the Americas to Europe and from Europe to the Americas to become, in this way, the meeting point and specialized distribution between both continents.

MiraLookBooks will take place in the Serrería Belga Cultural Space, of about 4,000 square meters, an industrial complex located very close to the Paseo del Prado in the surroundings of the MNCARS, the Thyssen Museum and the Prado Museum. MiraLookBooks will occupy the entire building composed of two naves with several rooms distributed over several floors and a courtyard, which will facilitate the creation of places of meeting, rest and celebration.

October 6, 7 and 8, 2023

Friday and Saturday from 12.00 to 20.00 h, Sunday from 12.00 to 18.00 h

Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga | Alameda, 15 | Madrid

Available Publications

We? What is human?

Who is we? And how can “we” stay together, despite our differences? How can “we” create collectivity without sameness, and bypass the pull towards homogeneity?

Dimentions:

21 x 15 cm, 250g.

Pages:

232

Making Kin

When we practice becoming with another’s experience, we practice empathy. When we embody collectiveness, we understand ourselves as a whole and therefore feel no separation. What would it be like to inhabit a body without limits or definition? Which words and meanings make us feel like “non-animals”?

Dimentions: 19 x 13 cm, 250g.

Pages: 116

Compost Reader Vol. 1

From Cthulhu Books, we think of the world to come as a great Compost. Composting as our new relational ontology, as our earthly condition. Composting makes us a single planetary material (humans, beings, objects, technologies). It is the past and it is the future. It is space, place and it is matter. It is a world as a whole.

Dimentions: 21 x 15 cm, 250g.

Pages: 155 p.

Posters

Plastics of the Mediterranean

A fictitious collection and classification of different plastiglomerates that would exist between the waters and shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

A1 (594×841 mm)

Offset Print

Colour

100 gr. coated paper

List of Animal Displaying Homosexual Behaviours

Homosexuality is a common and widespread phenomenon in the animal world. Not only short-term sexual intercourse, but also long-term relations; associations that can even last a lifetime.

500×700 mm

Offset Print

Colour

100 gr. coated paper