rile* books

About rile* books

Featuring new conversations with and readings by artists and poets, as well as recordings we've made over the past years of events at rile* books. rile* is a Brussels-based bookshop and project space for performance and publication, hosted by Sven Dehens and Chloe Chignell. More info at www.rile.space.

Publisher

rile*

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Apr 2021

Latest episode

31 May 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 May 2026

   Juf 45-120, with Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra

   The recording of the launch of 45-120, a bilingual anthology of poetry edited by the Juf project and published by Caniche editorial, 2025. The launch took place at our space in Brussels on the 26 October 2025 where we were joined by the editors Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra. About the book Personal space is understood as the distance between 45 and 120 cm that surrounds a person. This bilingual anthology brings together the work of eighteen contemporary poets who take this intimate measurement as a starting point to challenge its apparent rigidity and explore how political, social, sexual, racial, class, and accessibility factors shape it. Beyond a simple physical distance, personal space also becomes a stage where desire draws and negotiates the boundaries between the inside and the outside. The publication contains contributions by Samuel Ace, Justin Chin, Kyle Dacuyan, Rhea Dillon, Tracy Faud, Elijah Jackson, Taylor Johnson, Nadia Marcus, Park McArthur, Nat Raha, Joan Retallack, Trish Salah, Juan de Salas, María Salgado, Assotto Saint, Cedar Sigo, S*an D.Henry-Smith, Nayare Soledad, Perla Zúñiga. About Juf project Juf is a curatorial and research project around contemporary art and poetry, directed by Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra, and now based between New York and Madrid. It has organized exhibitions, performances and readings at Small Press Traffic (San Francisco), 99CANAL (New York), Judson Memorial Church (New York), Gasworks (London), SYSTEMA (Marseille), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), NYU Tisch School of the Arts (New York), Hangar (Barcelona) or TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Madrid). Credits Introduction by Chloe Chignell This podcast was edited by Ros Del Olmo The intro music was composed by Ive Vargas

2. 

   24 May 2026

   Fuck Me Judith, with Claire Star Finch and Chloe Chignell

   The recording of the reading with Claire Star Finch to celebrate the publication of their first novel Fuck Me Judith published by After 8, 2025. A groundbreaking, anachronistic experiment in literature informed by the counter traditions of New Narrative and queer writing. Claire Star will be joined in conversation by Chloe Chignell to talk queer literature, performative writing and the body as material. About the book In Claire Star Finch’s first novel, love and the void question each other in action. Judith, an academic celebrity, and Wendy, a slightly less famous academic celebrity, fall in love. They break up. In her ensuing grief, Wendy finds herself in a pornographic, epistolary haze that slumps toward the narrative. Fueled by the only things that cut through the pain—sex and democratic theory—Wendy takes us along on her wild ride toward self-actualization. Find the book here: https://rile.space/books/fuck-me-judith (https://rile.space/books/fuck-me-judith) About Claire Star Finch Born in the United States and based in Paris, Star Finch writes and performs weird experimental pornography, at the intersection of theory and poetry. Their literary performances are regularly presented in art institutions in France and internationally (Palais de Tokyo Paris, ICA London, CAPC Bordeaux, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe). Their ongoing research interests include vomit and dildos, exploring how these materials function as literary technologies. In 2024, They received a doctorate from l’Université Paris 8 in Gender Studies for their dissertation that traced the literary queerfeminsms of Kathy Acker, Hélène Cixous, Violette Leduc, and Audre Lorde. With the collective RER Q, they stage the performance of sexually explicit literary texts. They are the author of the novel Fuck Me Judith (After 8 Books, 2025) and the poetry collection Crache dans ma bouche puis crache dans mon autre bouche [Spit in my mouth then spit in my other mouth] (Les petits matins, 2024). Their other literary projects include Kathy Acker 1971-1975 (Éditions Ismael, 2019), and contributions to Lettres aux jeunes poétesses [Letters to young poets] (l’Arche, 2021) and Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, 2022). With sabrina soyer, they translated the poet Lisa Robertson into French, in Debbie: une épopée [Debbie: An Epic] (Joca Seria, 2021). Credits Introduction and interview by Chloe Chignell This podcast was edited by Ros Del Olmo The intro music was composed by Ive Vargas

3. 

   17 May 2026

   Exocapitalism, with Roberto Alonso Trillo and Marek Poliks

   The recording of the launch of Exocapitalism – Economies with absolutely no limits (becoming press 2025), with authors Roberto Alonso Trillo and Marek Poliks that took place in rile* the 9th October 2025. Exocapitalism is a rigorous account of the dynamics of capitalism today through an in-depth exposition of software, speculative finance, and the highest scales of arbitrage. Find the book here: https://rile.space/books/exocapitalism-economies-with-absolutely-no-limits (https://rile.space/books/exocapitalism-economies-with-absolutely-no-limits) About the publication At the centre of Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo's argument is the idea that capital does not belong to humans, it belongs to—and is governed by—itself. Traditional economic theory struggles to keep up with the rapid rate of acceleration, and this book steps in to address this: "The critical orthodoxy is slowing; it's tired, it's not especially good at the internet, it's probably never manned a Starbucks counter or an anonymous cubicle. Its younger adepts—though digitally native—are chronically underemployed, unavailable, drowning in the student debt (or student opportunity cost) required for entry into the critical apparatus. Few have any patience for the numbing slop-speak of the LinkedIn economy, the libertarian enclave of forex and HFT and memecoins, the quarter-zip depravity of employment at the charnel houses of McKinsey or Deloitte or Accenture, the blazingly random mood-swings of venture capital that lubricate all of the above. This impatience is—in the parlance of the above—a blocker: it means that the critical apparatus underestimates the power of the software economy, struggles to articulate the morphological density of digitally-realized capitalism, comprehensively ignores the functional death of labor, and doesn't understand scale. About the guests Marek Poliks is a researcher in the philosophy of technology, especially with respect to deep learning. He’s based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marek and his primary research partner Roberto Alonso Trillo (HKBU) have been working to situate deep learning tools as endosymbiotic reproductive infrastructure (inorganic vehicles through which biological, epistemological, and social information is encoded, subject to contingent processes, and transmitted). Roberto Alonso Trillo is a theorist and artist whose work spans cultural theory, media philosophy, and experimental sound. Based in Hong Kong, his research engages the aesthetic and political dimensions of machine learning, with particular attention to infrastructural critique and performativity. In ongoing collaboration with Marek Poliks, he investigates AI theory and speculative design as part of a broader inquiry into automation and cultural production. His interdisciplinary practice extends into sound art, post-instrumental music, and critical pedagogy. Credits Introduction by Chloe Chignell This podcast was edited by Ros Del Olmo The intro music was composed by Ive Vargas

Who has been a guest on rile* books

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ivan Cheng
• Mia You
• Obe Alkema

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