{"product_id":"sake-blue-selected-writings","title":"saké blue. Selected Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan critical thinking spring from both a fortune cookie and Jacques Lacan’s most obscure seminar footnote? Estelle Hoy says yes. In \u003cem\u003esaké\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eblue\u003c\/em\u003e, overpriced cheesecakes are the starting point for an essay on art writing; shoplifting in Berlin opens to a reflection on the economies of activist practices; fiction allows us to discuss the legacy of institutional critique, queer mélanges, or quiet melancholy. To her, the story of art becomes more nuanced in light of lyrics by Arthur Russell, the posthumous sorrow of Sylvia Plath, or a poem by Yvonne Rainer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003esaké blue\u003c\/em\u003e gathers critical essays, art reviews, and poetic fiction. Written in dialogue with the work of Martine Syms, Marlene Dumas, Hervé Guibert, or Camille Henrot, these texts combine the subjective and analytic, addressing power relations and the force of affect. Hoy spares nothing—and no one, exposing cultural clichés and urgent political issues through fast-paced acerbity. She advocates the work of women artists, mocks stereotypes, questions myths, and champions desire, sadness, and boredom. Simultaneously beautiful, lyrical, and cutthroat, her writing echoes to the reader like l’esprit d’escalier—we think of the perfect reply just a little too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Estelle Hoy practises philosophy as an unsettled but deeply committed query into existing together. She reads, she looks, she writes, to find out something essential about the future and living for it.”\u003cbr\u003e—Lisa Robertson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Baudelaire Fractal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Estelle Hoy's prose slap and bite, \u003cem\u003esaké blue\u003c\/em\u003e is a sharp pleasure to read.”\u003cbr\u003e—Calla Henkel, author of \u003cem\u003eScrap\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Hoy’s renditions of all-too familiar scenes are made more visceral than life with sparkling prose and a sly attention to life’s many shifting values that feels more than appropriate for anyone truly interested in art.”\u003cbr\u003e—Natasha Stagg, author of \u003cem\u003eArtless\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I love \u003cem\u003esaké blue\u003c\/em\u003e. It makes me smile. Sometimes I don’t understand it. Language or brain? But then I hop in and catch bits. Of Hoy’s thoughts or mine. It’s all very curly-wurly on a straight line. Cool!!!”\u003cbr\u003e—Camille Bidault Waddington\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"After 8 Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49430359408970,"sku":"9782492650147","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/sake_blue_front.jpg?v=1729427680","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/sake-blue-selected-writings","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}