Driven by the central question “What are we learning from artists today?” the first volume of the new series edited by Anthony Huberman and Jeanne Gerrity at the CCA Wattis, A Series of Open Questions, is informed by themes found in the work of Dodie Bellamy, such as contemporary forms of feminism and sexuality, the rebirth of the author, and ways in which vulnerability, perversion, vulgarity, and self-exposure can be forms of empowerment.

In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann’s legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. While architecture is typically embarrassed by television, preferring to act as if it never happened, Wachsmann fully embraced it.

The (non)human voice has always been part of modern art, notably within performance art, sound art, and conceptual art. However, Master of Voice temporary master program at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, mutated from this history, examining the voice as a unique “discipline.”

What happens when social scientists write about artworks? How does it affect the academic environment of a business school and how does it change the perception of art? Can it be used as a novel scientific method in the business studies?

Can objects be traumatized? How does the commercial value of an art object relate to its aesthetic qualities? How do objects interact? These are some of the questions addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of the Speculative Realism school of thought in contemporary philosophy.

Oceans are a crucial in regulating the planet’s climate—a necessary condition to ensure human survival on earth. Findings of oceanography can help people living in the Anthropocene to better understand life (and survival).

Understanding microbiota alters and challenges our concepts of immunology, metabolism, and the relation between nutrition and mental health, and also helps us learn more about the pathogenesis of diseases, the development of which are associated with a lack of microbial diversity.

Geoengineering refers to the large-scale intervention into the earth’s natural systems—oceans, soils, and atmosphere—in an attempt to counter the adverse effects of climate change, be it through solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, and so forth.

The General’s Stork explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare from a bird’s eye view. Focusing on how military technologies were developed in the specific context of Middle Eastern geographies, this volume will explore the extensive research that comprised the development of this multi-dimensional and developing work.

Unpayable Debt examines the relationship between coloniality, raciality, and global capital through a black feminist poethical framework. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 sci-fi novel Kindred, in which an African American writer is transported back in time to the antebellum South to save her owner-ancestor, Unpayable Debt relates the notion of value to coloniality—both economic and ethical.

Faint on stage? Umm Kulthum never did. It was the people who swooned when she sang. What if, overcome by the power of her song, the singer herself had passed out? What would have ensued during the sudden silence? Umm Kulthum faints on stage is the title Polys Peslikas coined for one of the paintings in his exhibition “The future of colour” at the Cyprus Pavilion during the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017.