2010 |
| The Aesthetic Unconscious | Jacques Rancière | Polity Press | 2010 | THE |
| Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic | Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschluter | Tate Publishing | 2010 | EXH |
| The Age of Extremes. A History of the World 1914-1991 (1994) | Eric Hobsbawm | London: Abacus Editions | 2010 | POL/GEO |
| Awangarda w Bloku /Avant-garde in the Bloc | Gabriela Switek | Foksal Gallery Foundation and JRP Ringier | 2010 | |
| 6th Berlin Biennale, Was draußen wartet. What Is Waiting Out There, reader | Kathrin Rhomberg | DuMont | 2010 | |
| Biopolitics, Necropolitics and De-coloniality | Marina Gržinić, et al. | Pavilion: Journal for Politics and Culture | 2010 | |
| 6th Berlin Biennale. Was draußen wartet. What Is Waiting Out There | Kathrin Rhomberg | DuMont | 2010 | |
| The Biennial Reader | Elena Filipovic, Marieke van Hal, Solveig Øvstebø | Bergen Kunsthall and Hatje Cantz | 2010 | |
| Handlung. On Producing Possibilities: Reader of the Bucharest Biennale 4 | Răzvan Ion and Eugen Rădescu | Pavilion: Journal for Politics and Culture | 2010 | |
| The Consequences of Modernity (1990) | Antony Giddens | London: Polity Press | 2010 | GLO |
| The Clash of Civilizations?: The Debate | Samuel P. Huntington | Foreign Affairs | 2010 | |
| Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions | Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi | MIT Press and Zone Books | 2010 | POL/GEO |
| The Communist Hypothesis | Alain Badiou | Verso | 2010 | THE |
| Curating and the Educational Turn | Paul O’Neil and Mick Wilson | Open Editions and de Appel | 2010 | AT |
| Concerning War: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art (2nd edition) | Maria Hlavajova and Jill Winder | BAK and post editions | 2010 | |
| Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Politics, Ethics, Affect | Marsha Meskimmon | Routledge | 2010 | AT |
| The Communist Postscript | Boris Groys | Verso | 2010 | THE |
| Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman : (One Work Series) | TJ Demos | Afterall Books and MIT Press | 2010 | |
| Desvíos de la deriva.: Experiencias, travesías y morfologías | Lisette Lagnado, et al. | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia | 2010 | |
| Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics | Jacques Rancière | Continuum | 2010 | THE |
| European Cultural Policies 2015 | Maria Lind and Raimund Minichbauer | London, Stockholm, Vienna: Iaspis and eipcp | 2010 | AH |
| The Enigma of Capital: And the Crisis of Capitalism | David Harvey | Profile Books | 2010 | GLO |
| Envisioning Real Utopias | Eric Olin Wright | Verso | 2010 | POL |
| The Futurism of the Instant | Paul Virilio | Polity Press | 2010 | |
| From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy | Kenan Malik | Atlantic Books | 2010 | |
| The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader | Amelia Jones | Routledge | 2010 | AH |
| Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea | Alberto Toscano | Routledge | 2010 | |
| Global Feminisms | Maura Rielly and Linda Nochlin | Merrell Publishers Ltd | 2010 | EXH |
| Globalization East and West | Bryan S. Turner and Habibul Haque Khondker | SAGE Publications | 2010 | GLO |
| The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the College de France, 1982–1983 | Michel Foucault | Palgrave | 2010 | THE |
| The Great Credit Crash | Martijn Konigs | Verso | 2010 | GLO |
| How to Do Things with Art: The Meaning of Art’s Performativity | Dorothea von Hantelmann | JRP|Ringier | 2010 | AT |
| Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Diverge | Oliver Roy | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd | 2010 | |
| Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War: (The Wellek Library Lectures) | Rosalyn Deutsche | Columbia University Press | 2010 | |
| High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture | Isabelle Graw | New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press | 2010 | AT |
| The Idea of Communism | Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek | Verso | 2010 | |
| Jan Verwoert. Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want | Vanessa Ohlraun | Sternberg Press | 2010 | |
| The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of our Times | Giovanni Arrighi | Verso | 2010 | GLO |
| Living in the End Times | Slavoj Žižek | Verso | 2010 | THE |
| Limits to Capital (1982) | David Harvey | London: Verso | 2010 | GLO |
| Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism | Alexander Anievas | Routledge | 2010 | GLO |
| Manifesta 8. The European Biennale of Contemporary Art: Region of Murcia (Spain) in dialogue with Northern Africa | | Silvana Editoriale | 2010 | |
| Nongovernmental Politics | Michel Feher with Gaelle Krikorian, and Yates McKee | New York: Zone Books | 2010 | GLO |
| Promises of the Past: A Discontinuous History of Art in Former Eastern Europe | Christine Macel and Nataša Petrešin | Centre Pompidou and JRP Ringier | 2010 | EXH |
| The Potosí Principle : How Can We Sing the Song of the Lord in An Alien Land? | Alice Creischer, Max Jorge Hinderer, and Andreas Siekmann | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König | 2010 | |
| Perpetual Inventory | Rosalind Krauss | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2010 | AT |
| A Society Adrift: Interviews and Debates, 1974–1997 | Cornelius Castoriadis | Fordham University Press | 2010 | THE |
| The Spirit of Terrorism (2002) | Jean Baudrillard | London: Verso | 2010 | THE |
| Second Manifesto for Philosophy | Alain Badiou | Polity Press | 2010 | |
| Seepage | Raqs Media Collective | Sternberg Press | 2010 | |
| Show & Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material | Julie Ault | London: Four Corners Books | 2010 | |
| Spatial Conceptions of the Nation: Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey : (International Library of Twentieth Century History) | Nikiforos Diamandouros, Thalia Dragonas, and Çağlar Keyder | I B Tauris & Co | 2010 | |
| A Thousand Machines : A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement | Gerald Raunig | Semiotext(e) | 2010 | |
| The Violence of Financial Capitalism | Christian Marazzi | Semiotext(e) | 2010 | GLO |
2009 |
| Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 | Nicolas Bourriaud | Tate Publishing | 2009 | EXH |
| Art of Two Germanies/Cold War Cultures | Stephanie Barron, Sabine Eckmann, and Eckhart Gillen | New York: Abrams | 2009 | EXH |
| Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique | Gerald Raunig and Gene Ray | MayFly Press | 2009 | AT |
| Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) | Steven Henry Mads | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2009 | AT |
| Aesthetics and Its Discontents | Jacques Rancière | Polity Press | 2009 | THE |
| Art and Theory After Socialism | Mel Jordan and Malcom Miles | University of Chicago Press | 2009 | AT |
| The Aesthetics of Disappearance | Paul Virilio | New York: Semiotext(e) | 2009 | THE |
| Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays | Jürgen Habermas | London: Polity Press | 2009 | THE |
| Back in the USSR (What was Communism?) | Boris Kagarlitsky | University of Chicago Press | 2009 | GLO |
| A Brief History of Curating | Hans Ulrich Obrist | JRP|Ringier | 2009 | AH |
| Being an Artist in Post-Fordist Times (Arts in Society) | Pascal Gielen and Paul De Bruyne | NAi Publishers | 2009 | AT |
| Bunker Archaeology (1994) | Paul Virilio | Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press | 2009 | THE |
| The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on Postmodernism 1983–1998 | Fredric Jameson | Verso | 2009 | THE |
| A Companion to Marx’s Capital | David Harvey | Verso | 2009 | THE |
| Communities of Sense.: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics | Beth Hinderliter and William Kaizen, et al. | Duke University Press | 2009 | |
| Continuing Dialogues. A Tribute to Igor Zabel | Christa Benzer, Christine Bohler, Christiane Erharter | JRP|Ringier | 2009 | AH |
| Commonweath | Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri | Harvard University Press | 2009 | THE |
| Column 4: Spaces of Art, Institutional and post-institutional practices in contemporary art | Reuben Keehan | Artspace | 2009 | AT |
| Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? | Mark Fisher | O Books | 2009 | GLO |
| The Democratic Paradox (Radical Thinkers) | Chantal Mouffe | Verso | 2009 | THE |
| Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics | Jodi Dean | Durham University Press | 2009 | |
| Desacuerdos 5. Cultura popular | Pedro G. Romero | MACBA | 2009 | EXH |
| Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society | Brian Holmes | Van Abbemuseum | 2009 | AT |
| The Emancipated Spectator | Jacques Rancière | Verso | 2009 | THE |
| The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945–2005 | Robert Brenner | Verso | 2009 | GLO |
| The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity | Wang Hui | Verso | 2009 | POL |
| The Future of the Image (2007) | Jacques Rancière | London: Verso | 2009 | THE |
| The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 | Jeffrey Engel | Oxford University Press | 2009 | POL/GEO |
| Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? | Judith Butler | London: Verso | 2009 | THE |
| Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Querying the Guwangzhou Triennial 2008, | Sarat Maharaj | Printed Project Issue 11 | 2009 | EXH |
| The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work | Wouter Davidts and Kim Paice | Amsterdam: Valiz | 2009 | AH |
| First as Tragedy, Then as Farce | Slavoj Žižek | Verso | 2009 | THE |
| Globalization: The Human Consequences (1998) | Zygmunt Bauman | Polity | 2009 | GLO |
| The Global Art World. Audiences, Markets and Museums | Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddenseig | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 2009 | AH |
| The German Issue | Sylvère Lotringer | Semiotext(e) | 2009 | THE |
| Globalization. A Very Short Introduction | Manfred Steger | Oxford University Press | 2009 | GLO |
| Harun Farocki: Against What? Against Whom? [DE/EN] | Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König | 2009 | |
| Hatred of Democracy | Jacques Ranciére | Verso | 2009 | THE |
| How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror | Reza Aslan | Random House | 2009 | POL/GEO |
| Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas) | Susan Buck-Morss | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2009 | THE |
| Islams and Modernities | Aziz Al-Azmeh | Verso | 2009 | POL |
| In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe | Piotr Piotrowski | London: Reaktion Books | 2009 | AH |
| Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech (Townsend Papers in the Humanities) | Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saga Mahmood | University of California Press | 2009 | THE |
| 11th International Istanbul Biennial: What Keeps Mankind Alive? The Texts | WHW/What, How and for Whom? | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 2009 | EXH |
| Integration Impossible? The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojic | Marina Gržinić, Tanja Ostojic | argobooks | 2009 | |
| Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings | Alexander Alberro and Blake Stinson | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2009 | AH |
| Interviews, Volume 2 | Hans Ulrich Obrist | Charta | 2009 | AH |
| Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State | Antonio Negri | University of Minnesota Press | 2009 | |
| Ideologies of Theory | Fredric Jameson | Verso | 2009 | THE |
| 11th International Istanbul Biennial : What Keeps Mankind Alive? The Guide | What, How and for Whom/WHW | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 2009 | EXH |
| Islams and Modernities (1993) | Aziz Al-Azmeh | London: Verso | 2009 | |
| The Location of Culture (1994) | Homi K. Bhabha | London: Routledge | 2009 | |
| The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude: Global Art, Memory and Post-fordism | Pascal Gielen | Amsterdam: Valiz | 2009 | AT |
| Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor | Cosmin Costinaş and Jill Winder | BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and post editions | 2009 | |
| 1989: The Struggle to Create Postwar Europe | Mary Elise Sarotte | Princeton University Press | 2009 | POL/GEO |
| Now is the Time. Art & Theory in the 21st Century | Christel Vesters | NAi Publishers | 2009 | |
| On (Surplus) Value in Art | Diedrich Diederichsen | Witte de With and Sternberg Press | 2009 | AT |
| Of an Obscure Disaster | Alain Badiou | Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Academie | 2009 | THE |
| On Criticism (Thinking in Action) | Noel Carrol | Routledge | 2009 | AT |
| The Post-American World (2008) | Fareed Zakaria | New York: Penguin | 2009 | POL |
| Philosophy in the Present | Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek | Polity Press | 2009 | THE |
| Politics, Identity and Public Space: Critical Reflections in and through the Practices of Contemporary Art | Mika Hannula | Utrecht Consortium: Expodium, Platform for Young Art and MaHKU, Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design | 2009 | |
| Re-enchantment (Art Seminar) | James Elkins and Michael Newman | Routledge | 2009 | AT |
| The Rise and Fall of Communism | Archie Brown | Ecco Books | 2009 | POL/GEO |
| The Radicant | Nicolas Bourriaud | Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg | 2009 | AT |
| The Return of Religion and Other Myths: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art | Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, and Jill Winder | BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and post editions | 2009 | AT |
| The Red Flag: A History of Global Communism | David Priestland | Grove Press | 2009 | POL/GEO |
| Renée Green: Ongoing Becomings. Retrospective 1989–2009 | Nichole Schweizer | JRP|Ringier | 2009 | |
| The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror | Manfred Steger | Oxford University Press | 2009 | GLO |
| Soft Subversions: Texts and Interviews 1977–1985 | Felix Guattari | Semiotext(e) | 2009 | THE |
| 60 Jahre, 60 Werke: Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949 bis 2009 | Walter Smerling | Wienand Verlag | 2009 | EXH |
| The Signature of All Things: On Method | Giorgio Agamben | MIT Press and Zone Books | 2009 | THE |
| Thinking About Exhibitions | Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, and Sandy Nairne | London: Routledge | 2009 | AH |
| Theory of the Subject | Alain Badiou | Continuum | 2009 | THE |
| 53rd Venice Biennale: Making Worlds | Daniel Birnbaum | Marsilio Editori | 2009 | EXH |
| Valences of the Dialectic | Fredric Jameson | Verso | 2009 | |
| Violence: Six sideways reflections | Slavoj Žižek | Profile Books | 2009 | THE |
| Wait to Wait: A Conversation | Boris Groys and Andro Wekua | JRP|Ringier | 2009 | AT |
| What is Contemporary Art? | Terry Smith | University of Chicago Press | 2009 | AH |
| Zone des Übergangs: Vom Ende des Postkommunismus | Boris Buden | Suhrkamp | 2009 | THE |
2008 |
| Art Power | Boris Groys | MIT Press | 2008 | AT |
| America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11.The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror | Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier | Washington: PublicAffairs Books | 2008 | POL |
| Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity | Nancy Condee, Terry Smith, and Okwui Enwezor | Duke University Press | 2008 | AH |
| All that is solid melts into air. Notes on Tourism | Delphine Bedel | episode publishers | 2008 | |
| Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art | Okwui Enwezor | Steidel | 2008 | EXH |
| Autonomia: Post-Political Politics | Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi | Semiotext(e) | 2008 | THE |
| Blind Spots. Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani | Jelle Bouwhuis, Nina Fischer, Maroan el Sani | JRP|Ringier | 2008 | |
| Baghdad Calling | Geert van Kesteren | episode publishers | 2008 | EXH |
| 5th Berlin Biennale: When things cast no shadow | Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic | JRP Ringier | 2008 | |
| The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979 | Michel Foucault | Palgrave | 2008 | THE |
| Cold War Confrontations: US Exhibitions and the Cultural Cold War | Jack Masey and Conway Lloyd Morgan | Baden: Lars Müller Publishers | 2008 | AH |
| The Century | Alain Badiou | Polity Press | 2008 | THE |
| Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy | Christian Marazzi | New York: Semiotext(e) | 2008 | GLO |
| Catalog International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) 2008 | Andrew Maggiore and Nicole Sante | Pantheon Drukkers | 2008 | EXH |
| The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (1990) | David Harvey | London: Blackwell | 2008 | |
| The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order | Jeffrey Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, and Thomas Risse | New York: Cornell University Press | 2008 | POL |
| The Future of Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym | Basic Books | 2008 | |
| Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx | Michael Sprinker | Verso | 2008 | THE |
| The Globalization of Political Violence: Globalization’s Shadow | Richard Devetak and Christopher W. Hughes | Routledge | 2008 | GLO |
| Goodbye Mr. Socialism. Radical Politics in the 21st Century | Antonio Negri with Raf Scelsi | New York/London: Seven Stories and Serpent’s Tail | 2008 | THE |
| Gender Trouble (1990) | Judith Butler | London: Routledge | 2008 | THE |
| Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance | Simon Critchley | Verso | 2008 | THE |
| The Inoperative Community (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 76) (1991) | Jean-Luc Nancy | Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press | 2008 | THE |
| Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective | Ann Goldstein | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2008 | |
| MJ Manifesta Journal Vol 2: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship No. 4-5-6 | Viktor Misiano and Igor Zabel | Silvana Editoriale | 2008 | AT |
| MJ Manifesta Journal Vol 1: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship No. 1-2-3 | Viktor Misiano and Igor Zabel | Silvana Editoriale | 2008 | AT |
| Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996) | Arjun Appadurai | Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press | 2008 | GLO |
| The Meaning of Sarkozy | Alain Badiou | London: Verso | 2008 | THE |
| On Empire: America, War, and Global Supermacy | Eric Hobsbawm | New York: Pantheon | 2008 | POL/GEO |
| On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art | Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, and Binna Choi | BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Revolver | 2008 | AT |
| On the Political (Thinking in Action) (2005) | Chantal Mouffe | London: Routledge | 2008 | THE |
| Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) | Fredric Jameson | Durham: Duke University Press | 2008 | THE |
| Provincializing Europe:: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000) | Dipesh Chakrabarty | Princeton: Princeton University Press | 2008 | |
| Pure War: 25 Years Later (Semiotext(e)/Foreign Agents) (1983) | Paul Virilio | New York: Semiotext(e) | 2008 | THE |
| Questioning History. Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art (Reflect #07) | Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg, Flip Bool | NAi Publishers | 2008 | AH |
| Reflections on Empire | Antonio Negri | Polity Press | 2008 | |
| Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire | Wendy Brown | Princeton University Press | 2008 | |
| Regieren im Bildraum | Tom Holert | b_books/Polypen | 2008 | |
| Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (New Directions in Critical Theory) | Nancy Fraser | Columbia University Press | 2008 | THE |
| The State of Art Criticism (Art Seminar) | James Elkins and Michael Newman | Routledge | 2008 | AT |
| The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) | Slavoj Žižek | London: Verso | 2008 | THE |
| The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein | Picador | 2008 | GLO |
| The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (Crises in World Politics) | Faisal Devji | London: Hurst & Co. | 2008 | POL |
| Thinking Worlds: The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art | Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Sven-Olov Wallenstein | New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press | 2008 | AT |
| Time Action Vision: Conversations in Cultural Studies, Theory, and Activism | Christian Höller | JRP|Ringier | 2008 | AT |
| The Three Ecologies | Felix Guattari | Continuum | 2008 | THE |
| Thinking in loop: Three Videos on Iconoclasm, Ritual and Immortality | Boris Groys | Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag | 2008 | |
| Territory, Authority, Rights. From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2006) | Saskia Sassen | Princeton: Princeton University Press | 2008 | GLO |
| Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics (2006) | Rosi Braidotti | London: Polity Press | 2008 | THE |
| The Urgency of Theory (The State of the World) | Antonio Pinto Ribeiro | Carcanet Press | 2008 | THE |
| Under Pressure: Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism | Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw | New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press | 2008 | AT |
| Visite: Von Gerhard Richter bis Rebecca Horn | Beatrice von Bismarck, Eugen Blume, Annette Husch, et al. | DuMont | 2008 | EXH |
| World at Risk | Ulrich Beck | Polity Press | 2008 | THE |
| The Wal-Mart Phenomenon: Resisting Neo-Liberal Power through Art, Design and Theory | Benda Hofmeyr | Jan van Eyck Academie | 2008 | AT |
2007 |
| Arrivals: Art from the New Europe | Suzanne Cotter, Andrew Nairne and Victoria Pomery | Modern Art Oxford/Turner Contemporary | 2007 | EXH |
| Andrea Fraser, Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser | Alexander Alberro | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2007 | |
| Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (2004) | Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloch | London: Thames and Hudson | 2007 | AH |
| Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader | Will Bradley, Charles Esche | London: Tate Publishing | 2007 | AH |
| Art as Far as the Eye Can See | Paul Virilio | Berg Publishers | 2007 | THE |
| Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century (Semiotext(e) Active Agents) | Gerald Raunig and Aileen Derieg | Semiotext(e) | 2007 | AT |
| Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions | Fredric Jameson | Verso | 2007 | THE |
| A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005) | David Harvey | Cambridge: Oxford University Press | 2007 | POL |
| The Balkans Trilogy | René Block and Marius Babias | Kunsthalle Fridericianum & Silke Schreiber | 2007 | EXH |
| The Coming Community : (Theory Out of Bounds) (1993) | Giorgio Agamben | Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press | 2007 | THE |
| Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example. A Critical Reader | Rosi Braidotti, Charles Esche, and Maria Hlavajova | BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and JRP|Ringier | 2007 | AT |
| Curating Critique | Marianne Eigenheer | Revolver | 2007 | |
| Contemporary Art and the Museum: A Global Perspective | Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddenseig | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 2007 | AH |
| Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 | Blake Stimson and Gregory Scholette | Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press | 2007 | AH |
| Curating Subjects | Paul O’Neill | London: Open Editions | 2007 | AH |
| Desacuerdos 4. Cine y Video | Jesus Carrillo | MACBA | 2007 | EXH |
| Domesticity at War | Beatriz Colomina | MIT Press | 2007 | |
| Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples | Mark Duffield | Polity Press | 2007 | |
| The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp | TJ Demos | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2007 | AT |
| The European Union: A Very Short Introduction | John Pinder | Oxford University Press | 2007 | POL |
| Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers (Annotating Art’s Histories Series) | Kobena Mercer | London: Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA) | 2007 | |
| Figures of the Thinkable (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) | Cornelius Castoriadis | Stanford University Press | 2007 | THE |
| The Geopolitics of Resource Wars: Resource Dependence, Governance and Violence | Philippe Le Billon | Routledge | 2007 | POL/GEO |
| The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2005) | Odd Arne Westad | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | 2007 | POL/GEO |
| Heimo Zobernig | Matthias Dusini, Michal Skoda | | 2007 | |
| 10th International Istanbul Biennial : Not Only Possible but Also Necessary. Optimism in the Age of Global War | Ilkay Balic Ayvaz | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 2007 | EXH |
| Ideology: An Introduction | Terry Eagleton | Verso | 2007 | THE |
| In Defense of Globalization | Jagdish Bhagwati | Oxford University Press | 2007 | EXH |
| Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic | Fredric Jameson | Verso | 2007 | THE |
| Liquid Fear (2006) | Zygmunt Bauman | Cambridge: Polity Press | 2007 | THE |
| Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty | Zygmunt Bauman | Polity Press | 2007 | |
| Maria Eichhorn. Aktiengesellschaft | Tilman Bezzenberger, Maria Eichhorn, Charles Esche | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König | 2007 | |
| The New Spirit of Capitalism (2005) | Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello | New York and London: Verso | 2007 | GLO |
| On Populist Reason (2005) | Ernesto Laclau | London: Verso | 2007 | THE |
| Progressive Nostalgia | Viktor Misiano and Marco Bazzini | Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci | 2007 | EXH |
| Postproduction. Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World | Nicholas Bourriaud | Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg | 2007 | AT |
| Postwar: : A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005) | Tony Judt | London: Pimlico | 2007 | POL/GEO |
| The Politics of Truth | Michel Foucault | Semiotext(e) | 2007 | THE |
| Planet of Slums | Mike Davis | Verso | 2007 | GLO |
| Right about Now: Art and Theory since the 1990s | Margriet Schavemakers & Mischa Rakier | Amsterdam: Valiz | 2007 | AT |
| The State of the World | Antonio Pinto Ribeiro | Carcanet | 2007 | THE |
| Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977-78 | Michel Foucault | Hampshire: Palgrave | 2007 | THE |
| Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices | Johanna Billing, Maria Lind, and Lars Nilsson | London: Black Dog Publishing | 2007 | AT |
| Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art | Olav Velthuis | Princeton: Princeton University Press | 2007 | AH |
| Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-colonial Imagination (2005) | Benedict Anderson | London: Verso | 2007 | |
| 52nd Venice Biennale: Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense. | Robert Storr | Marsilio Editori | 2007 | EXH |
| Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging | Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak | Chicago University Press | 2007 | THE |
2006 |
| Art and Its Institutions: Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations | Nina Möntmann | London: Black Dog Publishing | 2006 | AT |
| Art History Versus Aesthetics | James Elkins and Michael Newman | Routledge | 2006 | AT |
| Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War | Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews & Michael Watts (Retort),(2005) | London: Verso | 2006 | THE |
| A.C.A.D.E.M.Y. | Angelika Nollert, Irit Rogoff, Bart De Baere, Charles Esche, et al. | Revolver | 2006 | EXH |
| 4th Berlin Biennale: Of Mice and Men: The book | Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick | Hatje Cantz | 2006 | |
| 4th Berlin Biennale: Of Mice and Men: The Guide | Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick | Hatje Cantz | 2006 | |
| Cosmopolitan Vision | Ulrich Beck | Polity Press | 2006 | THE |
| Cork Caucus: On art, possibility & democracy | Shepard Steiner and Trevor Joyce | National Sculpture Factory | 2006 | EXH |
| Capital (it fails us now): (oe critical readers in visual culture #6) | Simon Sheikh | b_books | 2006 | EXH |
| Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975–2001 | Martha Rosler | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2006 | |
| The Divided West | Jürgen Habermas | London: Polity Press | 2006 | THE |
| The End of History and the Last Man (1992) | Francis Fukuyama | London: Free Press | 2006 | POL |
| East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe | IRWIN | Afterall Books and MIT Press | 2006 | |
| The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy | J.K. Gibson-Graham | University of Minnesota Press | 2006 | GLO |
| Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) | Olivier Roy | Columbia University Press | 2006 | POL/GEO |
| How to Read Lacan | Slavoj Žižek | London: Granta Books | 2006 | THE |
| High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art | Julian Stallabrass | Verso | 2006 | AH |
| The Information Bomb (Radical Thinkers) (2000) | Paul Virilio | London: Verso | 2006 | THE |
| Isa Genzken | Silvia Eiblmayer, Anette Freudenberger | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König | 2006 | |
| Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment | Boris Groys | London: Afterall Books | 2006 | |
| Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983) | Benedict Anderson | London: Verso | 2006 | |
| Institutional Critique and After (SoCCAS Symposium vol. II) | John C. Welchman | JRP|Ringier | 2006 | AH |
| MigMap: Governing Migration | Marion von Osten, et al. | | 2006 | EXH |
| Memory, History, Forgetting | Paul Ricoeur | University of Chicago Press | 2006 | THE |
| Murder in Amsterdam. The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance | Ian Buruma | London: Atlantic Books | 2006 | POL |
| On the Shores of Politics | Jacques Rancière | Verso | 2006 | THE |
| The Politics of Aesthetics (2004) | Jacques Rancière | London: Continuum | 2006 | THE |
| Polemics | Alain Badiou | London: Verso | 2006 | THE |
| The Postcolonial Challenge: Towards Alternative Worlds | Couze Venn | Sage Publications | 2006 | |
| A Postcapitalist Politics | J.K. Gibson-Graham | University of Minnesota Press | 2006 | GLO |
| Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (2004) | Judith Butler | London: Verso | 2006 | THE |
| Postcolonial Melancholia (Wellek Library Series) | Paul Gilroy | Columbia University Press | 2006 | |
| Participation : Documents in Contemporary Art | Claire Bishop | London & Cambridge: Whitechapel and MIT Press | 2006 | AH |
| The Rise of the Network Society (1996) | Manuel Castells | London: Blackwell | 2006 | GLO |
| Spectres of Marx. The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International (1994) | Jacques Derrida | London: Routledge | 2006 | THE |
| Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003) | Susan Buck-Morss | London: Verso | 2006 | THE |
| The Uncertain States of America Reader | Noah Horowitz and Brian Sholis | New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press | 2006 | EXH |
| Žižek’s Politics | Jodi Dean | Routledge | 2006 | |
2005 |
| Art and Utopia: Limited Action | Jean-Francois Chevrier with Elia Pijollet | MACBA | 2005 | EXH |
| The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Texts, Interviews | Jean Baudrillard | Semiotext(e) | 2005 | THE |
| Cosmopolitan Modernisms (Annotating Art’s Histories Series) | Kobena Mercer | London: Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA) | 2005 | |
| The Cold War | John Lewis Gaddis | New York: Penguin | 2005 | POL/GEO |
| Culture of Exception: Sociology Facing the Camp | Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Lausten | Routledge | 2005 | |
| Colonialism/Postcolonialism (New Critical Idiom) | Ania Loomba | Routledge | 2005 | |
| Experience, Memory, Reenactment | Anke Bangma, Steve Rushton, and Florian Wüst | Revolver and Piet Zwart Institute | 2005 | AT |
| Europe’s Troubled Peace: 1945–2000 | Tom Buchanan | Blackwell | 2005 | POL/GEO |
| Free World: Why a crisis of the West reveals the opportunity of our time | Timothy Garton Ash | Penguin | 2005 | POL/GEO |
| For Marx (Radical Thinkers) | Louis Althusser | Verso | 2005 | THE |
| Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) | Gideon Baker and David Chandler | London: Routledge | 2005 | POL |
| Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Volume 2: The Rise of the West and Coming | Mark Levene | London: I.B.Tauris | 2005 | POL/GEO |
| Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration | William Walters and Jens Henrik Haahr | Routledge | 2005 | POL |
| How to Read Marx | Peter Osborne | London: Granta Books | 2005 | THE |
| Installation Art | Claire Bishop | Tate Publishing | 2005 | AH |
| 8th International Istanbul Biennial: Poetic Justice (project documentation) | Dan Cameron | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 2005 | |
| In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State | Matthew Sparke | University of Minnesota Press | 2005 | POL |
| In the Place of the Public Sphere?: (oe~critical readers in visual culture #5) | Simon Sheikh | b_books | 2005 | |
| Imaginary Economics: Contemporary Artists and the World of Big Money | Olav Velthuis | NAi Publishers | 2005 | AH |
| Iraq. The Borrowed Kettle (2004) | Slavoj Žižek | London: Verso | 2005 | THE |
| Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return of Philosophy | Alain Badiou | London: Continuum | 2005 | THE |
| 9th International Istanbul Biennial Guide : Istanbul | Deniz Unsal | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 2005 | EXH |
| Kollektive Kreativität/Collective Creativity [DE/EN] | What, How and for Whom/WHW | Revolver | 2005 | EXH |
| Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity | Faisal Devji | London: Hurst & Co. | 2005 | POL |
| Modest Proposals [TR/EN] | Charles Esche | Baglan Press | 2005 | AT |
| Make Everything New: A Project on Communism | Grant Watson, et al. | Book Works | 2005 | AH |
| The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe | Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic | Cambridge, Mass.: Roomade & MIT Press | 2005 | AH |
| Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy | Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel | ZKM and MIT Press | 2005 | EXH |
| The Need to Document | Vit Havranek, et al. | JRP Ringier | 2005 | EXH |
| Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies | Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit | Penguin | 2005 | |
| Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations After the Iraq War | Daniel Levy | Verso | 2005 | POL/GEO |
| One China, Many Paths | Chaohua Wang | Verso | 2005 | POL |
| On the Public (Thinking in Action) | Alastair Hannay | Routledge | 2005 | |
| The Populism Catalogue | Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, and Nicolaus Schafhausen | Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg | 2005 | EXH |
| Projekt Migration | Marion von Osten and Kathrin Rhomberg | DuMont | 2005 | EXH |
| Publics and Counterpublics | Michael Warner | MIT Press and Zone Books | 2005 | |
| Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy | Ulrich Beck | Polity Press | 2005 | THE |
| Projekt Migration Austellungsführer | Marion Ritter | Kölnischer Kunstverein | 2005 | EXH |
| The Populism Reader | Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, and Nicholas Schafhausen | Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg | 2005 | EXH |
| Postmodernism and Popular Culture (1994) | Angela McRobbie | London: Routledge | 2005 | |
| The Return of the Political (1993) | Chantal Mouffe | London: Verso | 2005 | THE |
| Requiem for Communism (2003) | Charity Scribner | Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press | 2005 | AH |
| Secret Publicity: Essays on Contemporary Art | Sven Lütticken | NAi Publishers | 2005 | |
| Szene Türkei: Abseits, Aber Tor! : Jahresring 51 | Vasif Kortun and Erden Kosova | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König | 2005 | |
| Turkey Today: A European Country? | Oliver Roy | London: Anthem Press | 2005 | POL |
| Writings from the 9th International İstanbul Biennial : Art, City and Politics in An Expanding World | Deniz Unsal | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 2005 | EXH |
2004 |
| After Empire: Multiculturalism and or Postcolonial Melancholia | Paul Gilroy | Routledge | 2004 | |
| Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia | Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari | Continuum | 2004 | THE |
| Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art | Julian Stallabrass | Oxford University Press | 2004 | |
| Against Empire: Feminisms, Racisms and the West | Zillah Eisenstein | Zed Books | 2004 | |
| 3rd Berlin Biennale | Uta Meta Bauer | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König | 2004 | |
| 3rd Berlin Biennale: komplex berlin/complex berlin | Uta Meta Bauer | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König | 2004 | |
| The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq | Derek Gregory | Wiley-Blackwell | 2004 | POL/GEO |
| Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity | Alexander Alberro | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2004 | AH |
| Culture in the Age of Three Worlds | Michael Denning | Verso | 2004 | |
| Difference and Repetition | Gilles Deleuze | Continuum | 2004 | THE |
| Europa, Europa: Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa | Ryzard Stanislawski and Christoph Brockhaus | Hatje Cantz Verlag | 2004 | EXH |
| Fascism and Communism: (European Horizons Series) | Francis Furet and Ernst Nolte | University of Nebraska Press | 2004 | |
| The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature | Pierre Bourdieu | Polity Press | 2004 | THE |
| Fundamentalisms of the New Order | Charlotte Brandt, Lars Bang Larsen, Jean Charles Massera et al. | Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg | 2004 | EXH |
| Global Artworld, Inc.: On the Globalization of Contemporary Art (Figura Nova Series, No. 32) | Charlotte Byder | Uppsala University Press | 2004 | AH |
| Handbook of Inaesthetics | Alain Badiou | Stanford University Press | 2004 | THE |
| Manifesta 5 | Cecilia P. Alemani, et al. | Barcelona: Actar | 2004 | EXH |
| Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire | Michael Hardt and Antoni Negri | New York: Penguin | 2004 | THE |
| No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs | Andrew Ross | Temple University Press | 2004 | POL |
| Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism | Bryan S. Turner | Routledge | 2004 | GLO |
| One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity | Miwon Kwon | MIT Press | 2004 | AH |
| On Anxiety (Thinking in Action) | Renate Salecl | Routledge | 2004 | THE |
| The Philosopher and His Poor | Jacques Rancière | Duke University Press | 2004 | THE |
| Privatisierungen – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Osteuropa | Boris Groys | Revolver Verlag | 2004 | EXH |
| Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings | Slavoj Žižek | Verso | 2004 | THE |
| A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia | Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari | Continuum | 2004 | THE |
| Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985 | Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung | Wiley-Blackwell | 2004 | |
| Terror and Liberalism | Paul Berman | W. W. Norton & Co. | 2004 | POL/GEO |
| Tamáss, Contemporary Arab Representations: Volume 2: Cairo | Catherine David | Witte de With | 2004 | EXH |
| Truth and Method | Hans-Georg Gadamer | Continuum | 2004 | |
| Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future of all this?: 7 episodes in (ex)changing Europe | Maria Hlavajova and Jill Winder | Amsterdam: Artimo | 2004 | EXH |
2003 |
| Capitalism and Citizenship: The Impossible Partnership | Kathryn Dean | Routledge | 2003 | THE |
| Communism: A History | Richard Pipes | Modern Library | 2003 | |
| The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe 1945-1960 : (Cass Series: Studies in Intelligence) | Gilles Scott-Smith and Hans Krabbendam | London: Frank Cass | 2003 | POL/GEO |
| Deleuze and the Political | Paul Patton | Routledge | 2003 | THE |
| Debating Empire (New Left Review Debates) | Gopal Balakrishnan | Verso | 2003 | THE |
| Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes) | Hal Foster | Verso | 2003 | AT |
| Form Specific Arteast Exhibition | Tamara Soban | Revolver | 2003 | EXH |
| Florian Pumhösl | Florian Pumhösl, Kathrin Rhomberg | Revolver | 2003 | |
| Globalization and its Terrors | Teresa Brennan | Routledge | 2003 | GLO |
| Heimo Zobernig the works | Eva Badura-Triska | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König | 2003 | |
| Horizons of Reality | Bart De Baere, Viktor Misiano, Yonah Foncé-Zimmerman , et al. | MuHKA | 2003 | EXH |
| Interviews, Volume 1 | Hans Ulrich Obrist | Charta | 2003 | AH |
| Irwin: Retroprincip | Inke Arns | Revolver | 2003 | |
| 8th International Istanbul Biennial: Poetic Justice (exhibition catalog) | Efza Evrengil | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 2003 | |
| Johan Grimonprez: Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y | Hans Ulrich Obrist | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 2003 | |
| Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (October Books) | Benjamin H. D. Buchloh | MIT Press | 2003 | AH |
| Neo-avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 | Benjamin H.D. Buchloh | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2003 | AH |
| Orientalism | Edward Said | Penguin | 2003 | |
| Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida | Giovanna Borrodori | Chicago: University of Chicago Press | 2003 | THE |
| The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity | Slavoj Žižek | MIT Press | 2003 | THE |
| Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction | Robert J.C. Young | Oxford University Press | 2003 | |
| Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism | Ales Erjavec | University of California Press | 2003 | AH |
| Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980s | Chin-Tao Wu | Verso | 2003 | AH |
| Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism | Alain Badiou | Stanford University Press | 2003 | |
| Traumfabrik Kommunismus/ Dream Factory Communism: Der Visuelle Kulture der Stalinzeit/The Visual Culture of the Stalin Era | Boris Groys | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 2003 | EXH |
| Urban Imaginaries from Latin America: Documenta 11 | Armando Silva | Hatje Cantz | 2003 | |
| 50th Venice Biennale: Dreams and Conflicts – The Dictatorship of the Viewer | Francesco Bonami | Skira Editore/Marsilio Editori | 2003 | EXH |
| We the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2003) | Étienne Balibar | Princeton: Princeton University Press | 2003 | THE |
2002 |
| Ausstellung/Exhibition: Documenta 11_Platform 5 | Gerti Fietzek and Christian Rattenmeyer | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 2002 | EXH |
| The Arcades Project | Walter Benjamin | Harvard University Press | 2002 | THE |
| 2000+ Arteast Collection: The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West, From the 1960s to the Present, Exhibition of works for an emerging collection | Zdenka Badovinac | Moderna galerija | 2002 | EXH |
| The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture | Hal Foster | New Press | 2002 | AT |
| Balkan as Metaphor. Between Globalization and Fragmentation | Duŝan I. Bjelić and Obrad Savić | MIT Press | 2002 | |
| The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order (1996) | Samuel Huntington | London: Free Press | 2002 | POL |
| Conceptual Art (Themes and Movements) | Peter Osborne | Phaidon Press | 2002 | AH |
| Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2000) | Susan Buck-Morss | Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press | 2002 | THE |
| Documenta 11_Platform 5 | Okwui Enwezor | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 2002 | EXH |
| Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions | Diana Johnstone | London: Pluto Press | 2002 | POL/GEO |
| 4th Gwangju Biennale: P_A_U_S_E, | | | 2002 | EXH |
| Globalization and Its Discontents | Joseph Stiglitz | Penguin | 2002 | GLO |
| Historical Materialism and Globalisation | Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith | Routledge | 2002 | GLO |
| International 2002: Liverpool Biennial | Lewis Biggs | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art | 2002 | EXH |
| The Language of New Media | Lev Manovich | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2002 | AT |
| Manifesta 4 (Supplementary Pack) | Meike Behm | | 2002 | EXH |
| Manifesta 4 (guide) | Meike Behm, Uta Nusser | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 2002 | EXH |
| Manifesta 4 (Catalog) | Meike Behm, et al. | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 2002 | EXH |
| Money Nations: Constructing the Border – Constructing East West | Marion von Osten | edition selene | 2002 | EXH |
| Niemandsland. Berlijn zonder de muur | Kim Bouvy | De Verbeelding | 2002 | |
| Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-discourse on Post-Mao China | Xiaomei Chen | Rowman & Littlefield | 2002 | |
| Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy | Jodi Dean | Cornell University Press | 2002 | |
| Politics and the Other Scene (Phronesis) | Étienne Balibar | London: Verso | 2002 | THE |
| Religion and Rationality: Essays on Reason, God and Modernity | Jürgen Habermas | London: Blackwell | 2002 | THE |
| Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World | Benedict Anderson | Verso | 2002 | |
| Tamáss – Contemporary Arab Representations: Volume 1: Beirut/Lebanon | Catherine David | Fundacio Antoni Tapies | 2002 | EXH |
| The ‘Third Text’ Reader on Art, Culture and Theory | Rasheed Araeen, Ziauddin Sardar, and Sean Cubitt | Continuum | 2002 | |
| What Do You Expect from an Art Institution in the 21st Century? | Mark Sanchez and Jerome Sans | Paris: Palais de Toyko | 2002 | AH |
| Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates | Slavoj Žižek | London: Verso | 2002 | THE |
2001 |
| Ausgeträumt… | Kathrin Rhomberg | Secession | 2001 | EXH |
| Als de kunst er om vraagt. De Sonsbeek tentoonstellingen | Jeroen Boomgaard, Marga van Mechelen, Miriam van Rijsingen | Stichting tentoonstellingsinitiatieven/Gemeenschap Beeldende Kunstenaars | 2001 | AH |
| After the Wall. Kunst und Kultur im postkommunistischen Europa | Bojana Pejić | Stiftung Brandenburger Tor der Bankgesellschaft Berlin und Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz | 2001 | |
| Art after Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s | John Welchman | Routledge | 2001 | |
| 2nd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art | Saskia Bos | Oktagon Verlag | 2001 | |
| Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art | Grant Kester | University of California Press | 2001 | |
| Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions in the Mis(use) of a Notion | Slavoj Žižek | London: Verso | 2001 | THE |
| Empire (2000) | Michael Hardt and Antoni Negri | Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press | 2001 | THE |
| The End of the World as We Know It : Social Science for the Twenty-First Century | Immanuel Wallerstein | University of Minnesota Press | 2001 | |
| The Global City (1991) | Saskia Sassen | Princeton: Princeton University Press | 2001 | GLO |
| Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-System (1991) | Immanuel Wallerstein | Cambridge University Press | 2001 | POL/GEO |
| History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s | Timothy Garton Ash | Vintage | 2001 | POL/GEO |
| Hegemony and Socialist Strategy : Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (1985) | Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe | London: Verso | 2001 | THE |
| Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader (Double Agents) | Chris Kraus and Sylvere Lotringer | Semiotext(e) | 2001 | THE |
| 7th International Istanbul Biennial: Egofugal | Huseyin Karagoz | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 2001 | |
| 7th International Istanbul Biennial: Egofugal (short guide) | Huseyin Karagoz | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 2001 | |
| Laboratorium | Barbara Vanderlinden and Hans-Ulrich Obrist | DuMont | 2001 | EXH |
| On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Thinking in Action) | Jacques Derrida | Routledge | 2001 | THE |
| On Belief (Thinking in Action) | Slavoj Žižek | Routledge | 2001 | THE |
| On Immigration and Refugees (Thinking in Action) | Michael Dummett | Routledge | 2001 | |
| On the Postcolony (Studies on the History of Science and Culture) | Achille Mbembe | University of California Press | 2001 | |
| Politics Out of History | Wendy Brown | Princeton University Press | 2001 | |
| Postolonialism: A Historical Introduction | Robert J.C. Young | Wiley-Blackwell | 2001 | |
| Philosophy in Cultural Theory | Peter Osborne | Routledge | 2001 | |
| The Return of the Real: Avant-Garde at the End of the Century | Hal Foster | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2001 | AT |
| Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-liberal Autocracy | Boris Kagarlitsky | Pluto Press | 2001 | |
| The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994 | Okwui Enwezor | Prestel | 2001 | EXH |
| Spaces of Capital. Towards a Critical Geography | David Harvey | Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press | 2001 | GLO |
| Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading | Iftikhar Dadi and Salah Hassan | NAi Publishers | 2001 | EXH |
| 49th Venice Biennale: Plateau of Human Kind | Harald Szeemann, Cecilia Liveriero Lavelli, and Lara Facco | Electa | 2001 | EXH |
2000 |
| Bachelors | Rosalind Krauss | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2000 | AH |
| Contingency, Hegemony, Universality. Contemporary Dialogues on the Left | Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek | London: Verso | 2000 | THE |
| Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology | Alexander Alberro and Blake Stinson | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 2000 | AH |
| Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond | Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey Sinclair | Verso | 2000 | GLO |
| Interpol: The Art Exhibition Which Divided East and West | Eda Cufer and Viktor Misiano | Ljubljana & Moscow: IRWIN and Moscow Art Magazine | 2000 | EXH |
| Partage d'exotismes: Cinquième biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon | Tony Garnier | Réunion des Musées Nationaux | 2000 | EXH |
| Mas alla del documento: Versiones del Sur | Monica Amor, Octavio Zaya et al. | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia | 2000 | EXH |
| Manifesta 3: Borderline Syndrome. Energies of Defence | Igor Zabel | Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre | 2000 | EXH |
| Masters of the Universe: : NATO’s Balkan Crusade | Tariq Ali | London: Verso | 2000 | POL/GEO |
| Of Hospitality | Jacques Derrida | Stanford: Stanford University Press | 2000 | THE |
| Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity | Couze Venn | Sage Publications | 2000 | |
| Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye: Writings on Technology and Culture | Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye and Bartomeu Mari | Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon | 2000 | |
| Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media | Beatriz Colomina | MIT Press | 2000 | |
| Schlingensiefs Aüsländer Raus : bitte liebt Österreich | Matthias Lilenthal and Claus Philipp | edition Suhrkamp | 2000 | |
| 3rd Shanghai Biennale | | Shanghai Art Museum | 2000 | EXH |
| Terra Infirma: Geography’s Visual Culture | Irit Rogoff | Routledge | 2000 | AT |
| Transnacionala: Highway Collisions Between East and West and the Crossroads of Art | Eda Cufer | Ljubljana: Koda | 2000 | EXH |
| Who Paid the Piper? CIA and the Cultural Cold War (1999) | Frances Stonor Saunders | London: Granta Books | 2000 | AH |
| What’s Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory | Judith Butler, John Guillory, and Kendall Thomas | Routledge | 2000 | THE |
1999 |
| After the Wall: Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe | Bojana Pejić and David Elliot | Moderna Museet | 1999 | EXH |
| Aspekte / Positionen: 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949–1999 | Lóránd Hegyi | Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien | 1999 | EXH |
| Art at the Turn of the Millennium | Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick | Taschen | 1999 | AH |
| The Challenge of Carl Schmitt | Chantal Mouffe | London: Verso | 1999 | THE |
| A Critique of Postcolonial Reason : Toward a History of the Vanishing Present | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press | 1999 | |
| Disagreement. Politics and Philosophy | Jacques Rancière | University of Minnesota Press | 1999 | THE |
| Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s | Jane Farver, et al. | New York: Artdata/Queens Museum of Art | 1999 | EXH |
| Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self (1990) | Nikolas Rose | London: Free Association Books | 1999 | POL |
| Lyotard and the Political (Thinking the Political) | James Williams | Routledge | 1999 | THE |
| The Origins of Postmodernity | Perry Anderson | Verso | 1999 | |
| The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths | Rosalind Krauss | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 1999 | AT |
| Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace | Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor | Institute for International Visual Arts (INIVA) & MIT Press | 1999 | AH |
| 48th Venice Biennale: Over All – Aperto | Harald Szeemann | Marsilio Editori | 1999 | EXH |
| Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No 10) | Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen | New Press | 1999 | ATAH |
1998 |
| Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s (1996) | Irving Sandler | Boulder: Westview Press | 1998 | AH |
| 1st Berlin Biennale: Berlin/Berlin | Miriam Wiesel, Klaus Biesenbach, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Nancy Spector | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 1998 | EXH |
| Be Magazin #5. Science and Surfaces | Heike Dander, Michael Haerdter, Annette Sievert | Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien | 1998 | AH |
| Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective | Arthur Danto | University of California Press | 1998 | |
| Cities on the Move | Hans Ulrich Obrist | Capc Musee d’ art contemporain de Bordeaux | 1998 | EXH |
| Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money | Saskia Sassen | New York: The New Press | 1998 | GLO |
| Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life | Giorgio Agamben | Stanford: Stanford University Press | 1998 | THE |
| If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism. A Project by Martha Rosler 1991) (Dia Art Foundation Discussions in Contemporary Culture, Volume 6) | Brian Wallis | New Press | 1998 | EXH |
| Inside Out: New Chinese Art | Gao Minglu | University of California Press | 1998 | EXH |
| Moneynations@access | Marion von Osten | Shedhalle | 1998 | EXH |
| Manifesta 2 | Agence luxembourgeoise d`action culturell a.s.b.l. and Casino Luxembourg-Forum d`art contemporain | Luxembourg: Agence luxembourgeoise d`action culturell a.s.b.l. and Casino Luxembourg-Forum d`art contemporain | 1998 | EXH |
| Nuit blånche, Scènes nørdiques: les années 90 | Paris Musées | Paris Musées | 1998 | EXH |
| New Realism, New Barbarism: Socialist Theory in the Era of Globalization | Boris Kagarlitsky | Pluto Press | 1998 | |
| Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979 | Paul Schimmel, Russel Ferguson, and Kristine Stiles | Thames and Hudson, | 1998 | EXH |
| SUPERmarkt: money, market, gender politics | Marion von Osten | Shedhalle | 1998 | EXH |
| Spinoza: Practical Philosophy | Gilles Deleuze | City Lights Books | 1998 | THE |
| Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection | Norman Rosenthal, Brooks Adams, et al. | Thames and Hudson | 1998 | EXH |
| Vision and Visuality: Discussions in Contemporary Culture | Hal Foster | New Press | 1998 | AT |
1997 |
| After the End of Art. Contemporary Art and the Pale of History | Arthur Danto | Princeton University Press | 1997 | |
| A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany | Jürgen Habermas | University of Nebraska Press | 1997 | THE |
| Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics. Voorbij ethiek en esthetiek | Ine Gevers, Jeanne van Heeswijk | Nijmegen: SUN | 1997 | AH |
| Cities on the move | Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 1997 | EXH |
| Excitable Speech: Politics of the Performative | Judith Butler | Routledge | 1997 | THE |
| Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics | Thomas Keenan | Stanford: Stanford University Press | 1997 | THE |
| Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation | Mary Louise Pratt | Routledge | 1997 | |
| Inklusion/Exklusion: Probleme des Postkolonialismus und der globalen Migration | Peter Weibel and Slavoj Žižek | Passagen Verlag | 1997 | EXH |
| 5th International Istanbul Biennial: On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties (short guide) | Emre Baykal and Baskiya Hazirlayan | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 1997 | |
| It's a Better World: Russischer Aktionismus Und Sein Kontext – Russian Actionism and Its Context | Joseph Backstein, Johanna Kandle, Kikhail Ryklin et al. | Secession | 1997 | EXH |
| 5th International Istanbul Biennial: On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties | Emre Baykal and Baskiya Hazirlayan | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts | 1997 | |
| Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition | Nancy Fraser | Routledge | 1997 | THE |
| New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time | Ernesto Laclau | Verso | 1997 | THE |
| Politics/Poetics: Documenta X – the book | Catherine David and Jean-Francois Chevrier | Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz | 1997 | EXH |
| Parisien(ne)s | Hou Hanru | Camden Arts Centre and Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA) | 1997 | EXH |
| Postmodernity and Its Discontents | Zygmunt Bauman | Polity Press | 1997 | |
| The Question of Europe | Peter Gowan and Perry Anderson | Verso | 1997 | POL |
| Ruckblick auf das programm 96 der Shedhalle | Marion von Osten | Zürich: Shedhalle | 1997 | AH |
| Retreating the Political (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) | Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy | London: Routledge | 1997 | THE |
| Trade Routes – History and Geography: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997 | Rory Bester and Matthew Debord | Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council and Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development | 1997 | EXH |
1994 |
| Be Magazin #1. Photography | Heike Dander, Michael Haerdter, Annette Sievert | Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien | 1994 | AH |
| Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art | Thelma Golden | Harry N. Abrams | 1994 | EXH |
| Culture and Imperialism | Edward Said | New York: Vintage | 1994 | |
| Der Riss im Raum: Positionen der Kunst seit 1945 in Deutschland, Polen, der Slowakei und Tschechien | Matthias Flügge and Jiri Svestka | Guardini Stiftung/Verlag der Kunst | 1994 | EXH |
| Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles | Irit Rogoff and Daniel J. Sherman | Routledge | 1994 | AH |
| Making of Political Identities | Ernesto Laclau | Verso | 1994 | THE |
| The Optical Unconscious | Rosalind Krauss | Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press | 1994 | AT |
| Oh boy, it’s a girl!: Feminismen in der Kunst | Hedwig Saxenhuber and Astrid Wege | Kunstverein München | 1994 | EXH |
| Simulacra and Simulation | Jean Baudrillard, | Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press | 1994 | THE |
| 22nd São Paulo Biennial: Bienal Brasil Seculo XX | Nelson Aguilar | Fundação Bienal de São Paulo | 1994 | EXH |
| 24th São Paulo Biennial: 24e Bienal de São Paulo | | Fundação Bienal de São Paulo | 1994 | EXH |
| This is the show and the show is many things | Bart De Baere, Pierre Giquel, and Dirk Pültau | S.M.A.K. | 1994 | EXH |
| What is Philosophy? | Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari | Verso | 1994 | THE |
| Welcome to the Jungle : New Positions in Black Cultural Studies | Kobena Mercer | London: Routledge | 1994 | |
1991 |
| Discipline & Punish. The Birth of the Prison(1977) | Michel Foucault | New York: Penguin | 1991 | THE |
| Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-System (Studies in Modern Capitalism) | Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein | Cambridge University Press | 1991 | ATGLO |
| Kunst, Europa: 63 deutsche Kunstvereine zeigen Kunst aus 20 Ländern | Margarethe Jochimsen, Tilman Osterwold, Jiri Svestka, et al. | Verlag Hermann Schmidt | 1991 | EXH |
| Metropolis: International Art Exhibition Berlin | Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal | Rizzoli | 1991 | EXH |
| Places with a Past: New Site-specific Art at Charleston's Spoleto Festival | Christian Boltanski, Mary Jane Jacob, and Theodore Rosengarten | Rizzoli | 1991 | EXH |
| Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy: Essays in Political Philosophy | Cornelius Castoriadis | Oxford University Press | 1991 | THE |
| Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities | Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein | Verso | 1991 | |
| Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature | Donna Haraway | London: Free Association Books | 1991 | THE |
| Strangers to Ourselves | Julia Kristeva | New York: Columbia University Press | 1991 | THE |
| “SOWJETUNION.” 63 deutsche Kunstvereine zeigen Kunst aus 20 Ländern: Kunst, Europa | Margarethe Jochimsen, Tilman Osterwold, Jiri Svestka, et al. | Verlag Hermann Schmidt | 1991 | EXH |