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  • HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm, Katharina Kurz,…

    Nicht mein Ding − Gender im Design

  • Clog

    Clog 17. Cannabis

  • Frédéric Gros

    Disobey! A Philosophy of Resistance

  • Hal Foster

    What Comes after Farce?

  • Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz…

    The German Cinema Book (second edition)

  • Dieuwertje Hehewerth

    Salticidae Icius - a Research on Independent Art Spaces and…

  • Sruti Bala

    The gestures of participatory art

  • Christopher Sweetapple, Hein-Jürgen Voß…

    Intersektionalität. Von der Antidiskriminierung zur…

  • Anneke Lubkowitz (Hg.)

    Psychogeografie

  • Florian Hertweck (Hg.)

    Architektur auf gemeinsamem Boden. Positionen und Modelle…

  • Roger Paez

    Operative Mapping. Maps as Design Tools

  • Silvia Federici

    Jenseits unserer Haut. Körper als umkämpfter Ort im…

  • Dóra Hegyi, Zsuzsa László, Franciska…

    Creativity Exercises. Emancipatory Pedagogies in Art and…

  • Bill Balaskas, Carolina Rito (Eds.)

    Institution as Praxis

  • Julian Hanna

    The Manifesto Handbook. 95 Theses on an Incendiary Form

  • Sandra Teitge (Hg)

    Goethe in the Skyways

  • Samantha Hardingham (ed.)

    Cedric Price Works 1958 - 2003. A Forward-Minded…

  • Markus Krajewski, Harun Maye (Hg)

    Universalenzyklopädie der menschlichen Klugheit

  • Matt Anniss

    Join the Future. Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass…

  • Milo Sweedler

    Allegories of the End of Capitalism. Six Films on the…

  • HfG Ulm (Hg.)

    Hans Gugelot: Die Architektur des Design

  • David Rattray

    How I Became One of the Invisible (New Edition)

  • Sarah T. Roberts

    Behind the Screen. Content Moderation in the Shadows of…

  • Jessica Bruder, Dale Maharidge

    Snowden’s Box. Trust in the Age of Surveillance

  • Jungmyung Lee, Lieven Lahaye (eds.)

    Real-Time Realist #2: Typefaces don't care, Typefaces…

  • Oliver Ruf, Stefan Neuhaus (Hg.)

    Designästhetik. Theorie und soziale Praxis

  • Yasha Levine

    Surveillance Valley. The Secret Military History of the…

  • Sandra Umathum, Jan Deck (Hg)

    Postdramaturgien

  • Natasha Stagg

    Sleeveless. Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019

  • Kübra Gümüsay

    Sprache und Sein

  • Christine Schranz

    Augmented Spaces and Maps. Das Design von kartenbasierten…

  • IDEA Magazine

    IDEA 389. Feminist Moments: Thoughts on graphic design…

  • Patrick Cowley

    Mechanical Fantasy Box: The Homoerotic Journal of Patrick…

  • Ted Gioia

    Music - A Subversive History

  • Ernst Hubeli

    Die neue Krise der Städte

  • Mike Davis, Jon Wiener

    Set the Night on Fire - L.A. in the Sixties

  • Marietta Kesting, Maria Muhle, Jenny…

    Hybride Ökologien

  • Pablo Sendra, Richard Sennett

    Designing Disorder. Experiments and Disruptions in the City

  • Annette Michelson, Kenneth White (Eds.)

    October Files 24: Michael Snow

  • Isabelle Sully (Ed.)

    Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: Introverse Arrangements

  • Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir, Mark Wilson,…

    Beyond Plant Blindness : Seeing the Importance of Plants…

  • George F.

    Good Times in Dystopia

  • Nathaniel Coleman

    Materials and Meaning in Architecture

  • Marion Hohlfeldt, Frank Popper

    GRAV : Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel "…

  • Marilyn Chase

    Everything She Touched. The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • Robert B. Pippin

    Filmed Thought. Cinema as Reflective Form

  • Bernd M. Scherer (Hg.)

    Paris Calligrammes. Eine Erinnerungslandschaft von Ulrike…

  • Jennifer Clark

    Uneven Innovation. The Work of Smart Cities

  • David Scheller

    Demokratisierung der Postdemokratie. Städtische soziale…

  • Nezar AlSayyad, Mark Gillem, David…

    Whose Tradition? Discourses on the Built Environment

  • Sally Stein

    Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender

  • Jörg Johnen

    Marmor für alle. Zur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in Berlin

  • Oreet Ashery (Ed.)

    How We Die Is How We Live Only More So

  • Ben Kafka

    The Demon of Writing. Powers and Failures of Paperwork

  • Sandra Hofmeister (Hg.)

    Snøhetta: Architektur Und Baudetails / Architecture and…

  • Steffen Damm, Lukas Drevenstedt

    Clubkultur. Dimensionen eines urbanen Phänomens

  • Volker Pantenburg (Hg.)

    Harun Farocki. Ich habe genug!

  • David Joselit

    Heritage and Debt. Art in Globalization

  • Carrie Noland

    Merce Cunningham. After the Arbitrary

  • Didier Eribon

    Betrachtungen zur Schwulenfrage

  • Susan Jahoda, Caroline Woolard

    Making and Being: Embodiment, Collaboration, and…

  • Bill Gaver, Phoebe Sengers

    The Presence Project. Computer Related Design Research…

  • KW, ZK/U (Hg.)

    Statista. Staatskunst am Haus der Statistik

  • Germaine R. Halegoua

    Smart Cities

  • Alain Badiou

    The Pornographic Age

  • Christina Thomson (Hg.)

    Das Grafische Atelier Stankowski + Duschek

  • Divya Victor

    Scheingleichheit. Drei Essays

  • Mona Chollet

    Hexen. Die unbesiegte Macht der Frauen

  • Andrea Long Chu

    Females. Everyone is female, and everyone hates it

  • Mareile Pfannebecker, James A. Smith

    Work Want Work. Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism

  • Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

    Theory for the World to Come. Speculative Fiction and…

  • Dan Byrne-Smith

    Science Fiction

  • Will Schrimshaw

    Immanence and Immersion. On the Acoustic Condition in…

  • Anette Baldauf

    Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of…

  • Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Carl…

    Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Sacred Intent. Conversations with…

  • Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu

    Variete / Architecture / Desire

  • F. Laranjo, L. Prado, P. Oliveira, ACED…

    Modes of Criticism 5. Design Systems

  • Miodrag Kuc (Ed.)

    Hacking Urban Furniture. HUF

  • Constantine Verevis

    Flaming Creatures

  • Cornelius Cardew

    Stockhausen Serves Imperialism

  • Rebecca Coleman

    Glitterworlds. The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing

  • McKenzie Wark

    Reverse Cowgirl

  • Laura Kurgan, Dare Brawley (Ed.)

    Ways of Knowing Cities

  • Jonathan Fardy

    Althusser and Art

  • Thomas Piketty

    Kapital und Ideologie

  • Claudia Blümle, Claudia Mareis,…

    Visuelle Zeitgestaltung

  • Yanni Alexander Loukissas

    All Data Are Local. Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven…

  • Eileen Myles

    Chelsea Girls

  • Kunsthaus Bregenz

    Ed Atkins

  • Daniel Martin Feige, Florian Arnold,…

    Philosophie des Designs

  • Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi

    Kapitalismus. Ein Gespräch über kritische Theorie

  • Silvia Federici

    Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin. Rethinking, Remaking,…

  • João Carmo Simões

    Gulbenkian. Photography by André Cepeda

  • Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand (Hg.)

    Home Stories. 100 Jahre 20 visionäre Interieurs

  • Silvia Federici

    Die Welt wieder verzaubern. Feminismus, Marxismus &…

  • Ilka and Andreas Ruby (Ed.)

    The Materials Book

  • Daniela Comani

    Planet Earth: 21st Century

  • Judith Butler

    The Force of Non-Violence. An Ethico-Political Blind

The Tao of Wu

A unique book of wisdom and experience that reaches from the most violent slums of New York City to the highest planes of spiritual thought by the RZA, hip-hop’s most exalted wise man.
The RZA, the Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan and hip-hop culture’s most dynamic genius, imparts the lessons he’s learned on the journey that’s taken him from the Staten Island projects to international superstar, all along the way a devout student of knowledge in every form he’s found it—on the streets, in religion, in martial arts, in chess, in popular culture. Part chronicle of an extraordinary life and part spiritual and philosophical discourse, The Tao of Wu is a nonfiction Siddhartha for the hip-hop generation —an engaging, seeking book that will enlighten, entertain, and inspire.
The legions of Wu-Tang fans are accustomed to this heady mix—their obsession with the band’s puzzlelike lyrics and elaborate mythology has propelled the group through fifteen years of dazzling, multiplatform success. In his 2005 bestseller The Wu-Tang Manual, the RZA provided the barest glimpse of how that mythology worked. In The Tao of Wu, he takes us deep inside the complex sense of wisdom and spirituality that has been at the core of his commercial and creative success.
The book is built around major moments in the RZA’s life when he was faced with a dramatic turning point, either bad (a potential prison sentence) or good (a record deal that could pull his family out of poverty), and the lessons he took from each experience. His points of view are always surprising and provocative, and reveal a profound, genuine, and abiding wisdom—consistently tempered with humor and peppered with unique, colloquial phraseology. It is a spiritual memoir as the world has never seen before, and will never see again.


The RZA
The Tao of Wu
Penguin, Riverhead, 2009, 9781594488856