b_books is a collective situated in kreuzberg, berlin. starting in 1996 the collective — consisting of people with different backgrounds, working fields and ambitions, such as artists, theoreticians, filmmakers, among others — runs a bookshop and a publishing house, specializing in political theory, art theory, queer- and gender studies and film theory. b_books also arranges and hosts events called ›montagsPRAXIS‹.

current participants: katja diefenbach, florian gass, stephan geene, çiğdem inan, marietta kesting, karolin meunier, mirja reuter, anna r. winder

Projects:

The Queerness of Memory by Ana Hoffner, edited by Karolin Meunier with the author, 2018

Torpor (Roman) by Chris Kraus, German translation by Stephanie Wurster, edited and afterword by Karolin Meunier, 2015

Umsonst. Film by Stephan Geene, research and assistance, b_books/av 2014

b_books at Lothringer13_Halle, exhbition and series of events with b_books, München 2011

Wenn sonst nichts klappt: Wiederholung wiederholen in Kunst, Popkultur, Film, Musik, Alltag, Theorie und Praxis. Ed. Sabeth Buchmann, Alexander Mayer, Karolin Meunier, Stefan Moos, Erich Pick, Martina Rapedius, Thomas Rindfleisch, Mirjam Thomann, Sabin Tünschel, Reihe polypen, 2005 (mit materialverlag Hamburg)

Events:

Eva-Maria Stadler, Jenni Tischer: Abstraction & Economy (2025)
Sam Dolbear: Hand That Touch This Fortune Will. A History and Theory of Hand Reading After Charlotte Wolff (2024)
Giovanna Zapperi, Isabel Mehl, Oona Lochner, Susanne Leeb, Clemens Krümmel, Sabeth Buchmann: Carla Lonzi. Selbstbewusstwerdung  (2022)
Claire Finch, Sébastian Jailaud: Kathy Acker. Early Works (2020)
Kerstin Stakemeier: Entgrenzter Formalismus. Verfahren einer antimodernen Ästhetik (2018)
Chris Kraus: Torpor (Roman), Deutsche Übersetzung (2017)
John Cunningham, Anthony Iles, Mira Mattar, Marina Vishmidt: Anguish Language, Writing and Crisis (2015)
On Testo Junkie by Paul B. Preciado with Stephan Geene (2015)
Dean Spade: Normal Life. Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (2012)