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There’s levitation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205844533426,"sku":"9781913513498","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913513498.jpg?v=1786030465"},{"product_id":"9781804271742","title":"Flower","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.’ \u003cem\u003eFlower\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories and no-brainer observations, treating personal truth as unavailable – something that must be made up and convincing. Taking cues from confessional literature, his daughter’s improvised games, poor internet writing and shitty AI, Ed Atkins, in his first work of non-fiction, equivocates between inanity and divinity, ease and pain, sentimentality and sterility. An anti-memoir, a list, a listless blur – \u003cem\u003eFlower\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly original, moving and absurd book by one of the most influential artists of his generation, formally inventive and disturbingly of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55206012846453,"sku":"9781804271742","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804271742_c3277a7f-c078-4af9-9bdd-71f6744ee949.jpg?v=1786026658"},{"product_id":"9781529220964","title":"A Just Energy Transition","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo reduce emissions and address climate change, we need to invest in renewables and rapidly decarbonise our energy networks. However, decarbonisation is often seen as a technical project, detached from questions of politics and social justice. What if this is leading to unfair transitions, in which some people bear the costs of change while others benefit?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this timely and expansive book, Ed Atkins asks: are we getting decarbonisation right? And how could it be made better for people and communities? In doing so, this book proposes a different type of energy transition. One that prioritises and takes opportunities to do better – to provide better jobs, community ownership and improve people’s homes and lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303706112373,"sku":"9781529220964","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529220964_7a1ca6f6-d9c7-4063-8158-934d2f46bed5.jpg?v=1786021662"},{"product_id":"old-food","title":"Old Food","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards. Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by all kinds of hunger, Ed Atkins’ \u003cem\u003eOld Food\u003c\/em\u003e lurches from allegory to listicle, from lyric to menu, fetching up a plummeting, idiomatic and crabbed tableau from the cannibalised remains of each form in turn. Written in conjunction with Atkins’ exhibition of the same name, \u003cem\u003eOld Food\u003c\/em\u003e is a hard Brexit, wadded with historicity, melancholy and a bravura kind of stupidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd Atkins is an artist who makes all kinds of convolutions of self-portraiture. He writes uncomfortably intimate, debunked prophesies; paints travesties; and makes realistic computer generated videos that often feature figures that resemble the artist in the throes of unaccountable psychical crises. Atkins’ artificial realism, whether written or animated, pastiches romanticism to get rendered down to a sentimental blubber – all the better to model those bleak feelings often so inexpressible in real life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490136236405,"sku":"9781910695937","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781910695937.jpg?v=1786442023"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-ed-atkins.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}