b_books
b_books is a collective situated in kreuzberg, berlin. starting in 1996 the collective — consisting of people with different backgrounds, working fields and ambitions, such as artists, theoreticians, filmmakers, among others — runs a bookshop and a publishing house, specializing in political theory, art theory, queer- and gender studies and film theory. b_books also arranges and hosts events called ›montagsPRAXIS‹.
the publishing activity began in 1998 with writings by antonio negri, linda singer, chris kraus, maurizio lazzarato, harun farocki, paul b. preciado, jacques rancière and series on architecture, politics and art criticism. In 2000 b_books started producing essay-, and featurefilms as bbooks av.
current participants: Katja Diefenbach, Daniel Delhas, Florian Gass, Stephan Geene, Çiğdem Inan, Marietta Kesting, Karolin Meunier, Mirja Reuter, Anna R. Winder, Michaela Wünsch. (2025, [1])
on b_books[edit]
- Diedrich Diederichsen, Der lange Weg nach Mitte. Der Sound und die Stadt, Cologne: Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1999; repr., Kiwi, 2018, 312 pp. Publisher. (German)
- "'Mit den Untiefen der Prekarisierung lässt sich schwer Selbstkritik betreiben' – Philipp Goll im Gespräch mit Katja Diefenbach und Stephan Geene", die tageszeitung, 25/26 Oct 2010, p 24. über die Geschichte von b_books.
see also[edit]
links[edit]
- Website
- Website (archived 2002)
- Wikipedia-DE
