Tai Shani Livres

Feminist science fiction that anticipates a post-patriarchal future.

The collection of essays explores the interplay between the artistic vision of Turner Prize-winning artist Tain Shani and the innovative ideas of Charles Jencks, a prominent figure in postmodern architecture. It delves into how Shani's work resonates with Jencks' intellectual contributions, highlighting themes of playfulness and creativity in both their approaches. Through this examination, the essays reveal deeper insights into contemporary art and architecture, showcasing the dynamic dialogue between these two influential figures.

A love letter to nurses and midwives everywhere. With uplifting stories and anecdotes from both current and retirednurses, midwives and nursing support workers, this beautiful bookaims to inspire future generations to follow in their footsteps.

A series of painterly and poetic considerations on a feminized history of the rye fungus Ergot, the chemical basis of LSD from the author of Our Fatal Magic. From the cellular to the galactic, via Paleolithic cave markings to the trace impressions left by drone photography on our mind’s eye, incorporating dancing plagues, communist psychedelic witches, hyper-sexual fungi, chthonic descents, and skyward ascents, The Neon Hieroglyph weaves together a series of painterly and poetic considerations on a feminized history of the rye fungus Ergot, the chemical basis of LSD. The Neon Hieroglyph constructs a house of lyrical reflections for our ghosts to inhabit, a place where the gothic and the hallucinatory collide, where gothic affect and fractal dread form a mausoleum for psychedelic specters. And also the Sun! The Sun is a ghost that haunts the night! Framed with new essays by artist and writer Caspar Heinemann and anthropologist Amy Hale, Tai Shani’s The Neon Hieroglyph continues a journey into the post-patriarchal fictions that animated her first collection Our Fatal Magic.