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This illuminating chronicle of NSK's work and its reception is produced in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition devoted to NSK. Designed by Novi Kolektivizem (New Collectivism), the graphic design section of NSK, the cover of each individual copy of the book is printed with a custom detail; no two covers exactly are the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCopublished with Moderna Galerija \/ Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEda Čufer, Goran Đorđević, Slavoj Žižek, Marina Gržinić, Rastko Močnik, Marina Gržinić, Lev Kreft, Tomaž Mastnak, Mladen Dolar, Chrissie Iles, Boris Groys, Inke Arns, Alexei Monroe, Catherine Wood, Daniel Ricardo Quiles, Anthony Gardner, Barbara Borčič, Alexei Yurchak, Dejan Kršić, and others\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExhibition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModerna galerija, Ljubljana: 12 May–17 August 2015 \u003cbr\u003eVan Abbemuseum, Eindhoven: March–August, 2016\u003cbr\u003eGarage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow: Fall 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eZdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer who has served since 1993 as Director of the Moderna galerija\/Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEda Čufer, one of the founding members of NSK, is a dramaturge, curator, and writer and the cofounder of Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Gardner is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Oxford and the author of \u003ci\u003ePolitically Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art against Democracy \u003c\/i\u003e(MIT Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44900831461537,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780262029957","price":59.36,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780262029957.jpg?v=1744370646","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/nsk-from-kapital-to-capital-paperback-by-edited-by-zdenka-badovinac-eda-cufer-and-anthony-gardner","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}