{"product_id":"majnoon-field-guide-rheim-alkadhi","title":"Majnoon Field Guide — Rheim Alkadhi","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"page\" itemprop=\"mainEntity\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Book\" class=\"ouvrage\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-8 col-resume\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003eMonograph based a project across multiple mediums, finding its primary reference in the Majnoon oil field of southern Iraq.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003eMajnoon is an oil field in the global south. Majnoon is also the violence, and the state of mind that survives the violence. How can this be a field guide in any customary sense? Latitudes have been taken. Words are written in disrupted or troubled syntax. Rather, this book proceeds alongs idea search for what many call emancipatory practice; to beenacted in the field, where we feel most alive. The volume is divided into five parts, preceded by mapsand legends.First in the sequence is a colour-coded soil map,\"Majnoon and Hir Environs\", adapted from material originally published in 1960 by the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. It was the product—relic, really—of a brief era that saw fields and farmlands redistributed among labourers and peasants.Since then, the map has changed with the shifting sub-stance of our earthly constitution; it pivots on the example of Majnoon. Any map is appended by its legends, and I rewrite them from the perspective of dismantling. A longish colour key unfolds with the likeness of a poem pursuing return, inspite of scorch and ruin. It should be mentioned that 'hir'recurs multiple times throughout the book as gender-nonconforming pronoun—suggestive, ambiguous, and, inmy opinion, sufficiently sound for the moment. It is essentialto keep needling the problem of language.\u003cbr\u003eA second, simpler map charts water flow as casualty of upstream accumulation. Dams are borders, after all, and we are lousy with them; downstream is sentenced to the whims of an architecture whose gates are mostly closed. On the map, a symbol resembling a small, numbered page locates Majnoon as point of interest. A subsequent diagram also contains this motif—not for navigation through the field,but through the book itself.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"note\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003eRheim Alkadhi (born 1973) is an interdisciplinary artist working under volatile conditions and constantly moving between changing cultural and social contexts. Her work opens up highly diverse perspectives on borders, migration, gender, and intimacy in a poetic manner, and prompts a questioning of visual habits. Alkadhi was born in New York, and has lived in Iraq and the United States.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-4 col-infotech\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"separationTitre\"\u003e-- \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003eNovember 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"isbn\"\u003e978-3-949973-20-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"inLanguage\"\u003eEnglish edition\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e15 x 23 cm (hardcover, cloth binding)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"numberOfPages\"\u003e308 pages (ill.)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"separationTitre\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe vert\"\u003e\n\u003cspan itemprop=\"price\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Les Presses du Réel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52132255203648,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/3663\/8272\/files\/Majnoonfieldguide.png?v=1782169237","url":"https:\/\/stormbookstore.com\/products\/majnoon-field-guide-rheim-alkadhi","provider":"STORM books \u0026 people","version":"1.0","type":"link"}