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Below is art curator and artistic director of Londons Serpentine GalleriesHans-Ulrich Obrists list.

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At the age of 18, I made a pilgrimage to Vienna to meet the artist Maria Lassnig.

I was fascinated by her amazing body awareness paintings.

To her, poems are like watercolors, while prose is like a stone sculpture.

Trilogy by Friederike Mayröcker

She now creates collages of the two, which she terms proems.

The latest book by the great poet and artist Etel Adnan is a fragmentary exploration of reality.

Mountains are languages and languages are mountains.

Surge by Etel Adnan

These are aphorisms for the future.

WithThe Neganthropocene, Stiegler looks to reverse the phenomenon of entropy that faces us, giving us new agency.

It is a shuddering, urgent, brilliant warning about our current direction of travel.

Les Cigognes Sont Immortelles by Alain Mabanckou

I have read every word that Robert Walser has written.

This legendary writer from Guadeloupe who now lives near Arles is famous for books such asCrossing the MangroveandSegu.

Cabrera was a Cuban writer and activist who died in 1991.

The Neganthropocene by Bernard Stiegler

Her masterpiece,El Monte, is yet to be translated into English.

It is a pioneering anthropological study of the African-Cuban traditions.

Glissant is a writer I read every day for 15 minutes.

New Dark Age by James Bridle

His poetry, novels, and philosophy have such urgency today.

Its true significance has yet to be understood in the 21st century.

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Walks With Walser by Carl Seelig

What Is Africa to Me? Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography by Maryse Condé

El Monte by Lydia Cabrera

Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant

​The Red Book by Carl Jung