Reading list: October School. Reimagining Institutions
To accompany the OCTOBER SCHOOL Moving Beyond Collapse: Reimagining Institutions that took place at the island of Vis between 21 and 25 October 2025, L’Internationale Online is publishing a reading list. The reading list offers contextual material both for those present in Vis and for the platform’s wider readership.
Kristin Ross, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life, London: Verso Books, 2024.
Kristin Ross and Andreas Petrossiants, ‘The Commune Form: A Conversation’, e-flux journal, Issue #151, February 2025.
Kristin Ross, ‘Composition’, e-flux journal, Issue #148, October 2024.
Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury: Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, London: Verso Books, 2015.
Adania Shibli, ‘Book As Enemy’, The Paris Review, 8 May 2024.
Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020.
Adania Shibli, Touch, Northampton: Interlink Publishing, 2013.
Adania Shibli, ‘Ovo more pripada Muhammadu Al-Katibu’, in Tvoj bol je lakši kad o njemu drugi pričaju: Antologija suvremene književnosti Levanta (trans. Zeina G. Halabi), Zagreb: Kulturtreger, 2017.
Branko Marcetic, ‘Gaza Flotilla Participant: “Gaza Can’t Wait”, An interview with David Adler’, Jacobin, 12 September 2025.
David Adler, ‘We are sailing to Gaza. Here’s why’, The Guardian, 25 September 2025.
David Adler, ‘Exclusive: Testimony from Israel’s most notorious prison camp’, Progressive International, 7 October 2025.
Srećko Horvat, After the Apocalypse, Cambridge, Oxford, Boston: Polity, 2021.
Srećko Horvat, Poslije apokalipse, Zagreb: V.B.Z, 2022.
Srećko Horvat, Poetry from the Future: Why a global liberation movement is our civilization’s last chance, London: Penguin Books, The Book Service, 2019.
Srećko Horvat, Poezija iz budućnosti, Zagreb: V.B.Z, 2023.
Aleksandra Savanović, Novo sada, Novi Sad: Partizanska knjiga, 2022.
Aleksandra Savanović, ‘Tearing Down Fortress Europe: Migration as Utopia’, Green European Journal, Vol. 26, 2023.
Zdenka Badovinac, Comradeship: Curating, Art and Politics in Post-Socialist, New York: Independent Curators International, 2019.
Zdenka Badovinac, Unannounced Voices: Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions, New York: Sternberg Press, 2022.
Selena Savic (ed.), Radio Explorations: Architectonic Studies of Electromagnetic Milieux, Bielefeld: transcript verlag, 2024.
Fatma Kargin, Dorothée King, Selena Savic (ed.), Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity, Bielefeld: transcript verlag, 2024.
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea, ‘To Build an Ecological Art Institution: The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life’, L’Internationale Online, 31 May 2024.
Raluca Voinea, ‘Harvests of Hope. Working with the Land and Artistic Ecological Responsibility beyond Representation’, Mezosfera, Issue #14, 2025.
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, ‘The Repressive Tendency within the European Public Sphere’, L’Internationale Online, 6 December 2023.
Bojana Piškur, ‘Troubles with the East(s)’, L’Internationale Online, 22 January 2024.
Bojana Piškur, ‘Southern Constellations: Other histories, other modernities’, in Southern Constellations: The poetics of the Non-Aligned, Ljubljana: Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2019.
Bojana Piškur (ed.), Constellations of Multiple Wishes: Along the Eastern Horizon, Ljubljana: Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2024.
Martin Pogačar, ‘And the Earth Along: Tales about the making, remaking and unmaking of the world’, L’Internationale Online, 14 November 2023.
Martin Pogačar, ‘Forget ‘never again’, it’s always already war’, L’Internationale Online, 3 October 2024.
Rayya Badran et al. (ed.) Dignified Life: Outliving Impossible Ecologies, London and Beirut: The Mosaic Rooms and Beirut Art Center, 2025.
Morana Miljanović, Invisible Islands/Islas Invisibles, Mexico: Bacalar, 2020.
Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity, London: Pluto Press, 2025.
Robert Perišić, The cat at the end of the world, Zagreb: Sandorf, 2024.
Robert Perišić, Put za Issu, Zagreb: Sandorf, 2023.
Marko Pogačar, Midnight Verbs: New and Selected Poems, Mumbai: Poetrywala, Paperwall Publishing, 2025.
Marko Pogačar, Ponoćni glagoli, Zagreb: V.B.Z, 2023.
Predrag Matvejević, Mediteranski brevijar, audio-knjiga, Zagreb: book & zvook, 2022.
Predrag Matvejević, Mediterranean, a cultural landscape, audio-book, Zagreb: book & zvook, 2025.
David Graeber, David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: a New History of Humanity, London: Penguin Books, 2022.
David Graeber, David Wengrow, Zora svega: nova povijest čovječanstva, Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 2023.
Theo Prodromidis, ‘school’, in Glossary of Common Knowledge, Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, 2022.
Christina Petkopoulou, ‘Theo Prodromidis and How Art Can Extend Beyond Its Boundaries’, ARTWORKS Readings, 4 November 2020.
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