Dena Yago: That Figures

After 8 books, 2006, softcover, 216 pages, 12 x 18.4 cm

This collection of writings by artist and cultural critic Dena Yago, founder of K-HOLE, retraces more than a decade of reflections on the creative economy, its lures and failures, as well as many other topics such as AirSpace, Billie Eilish, LARPing, free food, ketamine, precariat, poetry and the internet. Yago's writing dares to dig into the contradictions of lives under the sugarcoated deals of the attention economy. Absorbing but refusing to metabolize the language of corporate culture, Yago opens spaces where critical thinking can still happen in spite of the pressure imposed by the numbing and accelerating effects of too-late capitalism. This collection also features a selection of artworks by Yago, in which the combination of conceptual legacies with cartoon elements creates poetical riddles. Edited by Antonia Carrara Foreword by McKenzie Wark. Design by Marco Caroti.