The Wild Book of Inventions

by Chus Martínez (Editor)

In essays, poems, sketches, and photographs, twenty authors challenge the exclusive human claim to intelligence.

Can contemporary art's practitioners change the way we perceive nature? In The Wild Book of Inventions , twenty authors employ a variety of forms, including speculative essays, poems, pencil sketches, and photo essays, to challenge the exclusive human claim to intelligence by pointing to, or inventing, new forms of coexistence for all life-forms. Far more complex than the necessary and continuous exercise of critique, these contributions introduce new ways to experience culture.

Contributors

Nabil Ahmed, Armen Avanessian, Hannah Black, Kristina Buch, Tyler Coburn, Ann Cotten, Paul Feigelfeld, Fernando García-Dory, Kenneth Goldsmith, Anke Hennig, Ingela Ihrman, Tiphanie Kim Mall, Chus Martínez, Momus, Ingo Niermann, Trevor Paglen, Filipa Ramos, Lin May Saeed, Emily Segal, Johannes Willi

416 pages, Paperback

Published February 2, 2021

Reviews

[Christianne Hedtke · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with all collections, some essays are better than others. There were a few really interesting ones in here, but the dry ones were spectacularly dry.

[audrey wang · Rating 4 out of 5]

some of the essays in here i truly L O V E while others i find a bit of a drag to get through...
a very interesting collection of thoughts overall