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Ken Gonzales-Day
History’s “Nevermade”
This book which accompanies an exhibition by the same name addresses the life work of Ken Gonzales-Day a Los Angeles based artist scholar teacher and curator who explores race and place in his photographic and filmic works drawings and paintings as well as through his research. He achieves this through a fundamental focus on the body—as intersectionally identified place-making empowered or occluded—which he centralizes while (in some cases) literally erasing it. When we engage with his work we engage his body with our bodies; we experience or own situatedness our intersectionality as we position ourselves and are positioned in social space always in relations of power.
Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade” puts the artist’s major series of art works in context showing the deep political aesthetic and theoretical concerns through which he animates his practice and pointing to larger political issues in relation to which each series can be understood. The book is organized in a roughly chronological and thematic structure according to the major series of his work all of which overlap and interrelate. The sections are: Finding a Path (Early Work) Rethinking History (Family) Rethinking History (Archives) Collecting Race (Museums) Forging Community (Publics) Imaging Bodies (Portraits) Redrawing Boundaries (Land).

Keepin' It Real
Essays on Race in Contemporary America
The past decade has been one of the most racially turbulent periods in the modern era as the complicated breakthrough of the Obama presidency gave way to the racially charged campaigning and eventual governing of Donald Trump. Keepin' It Real presents a wide-ranging group of essays that take on key aspects of the current landscape surrounding racial issues in America including the place of the Obamas the rise of the alt-right and White nationalism Donald Trump Colin Kaepernick and the backlash against his protests Black Lives Matter sexual politics in the black community and much more.
America's racial problems aren't going away any time soon. Keepin' It Real serves as a marker of the arguments raging right now and an argument for the changes that need to be made to become the better nation it has long imagined itself to be.

Kira O'Reilly
Untitled (Bodies)
The works of interdisciplinary artist Kira O’Reilly use the uncertain boundaries of bodies as the starting point for their enquiry. Specifically O’Reilly asks what kind of societies become possible in collaborations across species organisms and bodies and she explores these questions through sustained and experimental engagements with politics biopolitics change (social corporeal chemical reactive) and the complex relations between the human and the non-human.
This book is the first to offer an in-depth engagement with her many works across diverse formats. Bringing together writings by major artists and thinkers such as Marina Abramović Shannon Bell and Tracey Warr alongside extensive documentation of the artist’s work from two decades of practice the contributions engage with such topics as ideas of performance feminist political aesthetics biotechnical practices image-making and the intersections of humans and animals. The book also includes interviews archive material and O’Reilly’s own writings.
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Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain
Modernity and Mass Culture
The so-called 'Silver Age' of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization widespread class struggle and mobility and a boom in mass culture. This book offers a close look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collections of short often pocket-sized books sold in urban kiosks at low prices. These series published a wide range of literature in a variety of genres and formats but their role as disseminators of erotic and anarchist fiction led them to be censored by the Franco dictatorship. This book offers the most detailed scholarly analysis of kiosk literature to date examining the kiosk phenomenon through the lens of contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space visuality celebrity gender and sexuality and the digital humanities.

Kurt Kren
Structural Films

Karaoke Idols
Popular Music and the Performance of Identity
Most ethnographers don’t achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver Colorado he went from barely able to carry a tune to someone whom other karaoke patrons requested to sing. Along the way he learned everything you might ever want to know about karaoke and the people who enjoy it.
The result is Karaoke Idols a close ethnography of life at a karaoke bar that reveals just what we are doing when we take up the mic – and how we shape our identities especially in terms of gender ethnicity and class through performances in everyday life. Marrying a comprehensive introduction to the history of public singing and karaoke with a rich analysis of karaoke performers and the community that their shared performances generate Karaoke Idols is a book for both the casual reader and the scholar: a fascinating exploration of our urge to perform and the intersection of technology and culture that makes it so seductively easy to do so.

Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices
A key interdisciplinary concept in our understanding of social interaction across creative and cultural practices kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to experience empathy merely by observing the movements of another human being. Encouraging readers to sidestep the methodological and disciplinary boundaries associated with the arts and sciences Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices offers innovative and critical perspectives on topics ranging from art to sport film to physical therapy.