Motto Books

Motto Paris at Ofr, 6 rue des Filles du Calvaire. summer residency. Books, records, zines, artists' publications and editions - events and exhibitions.

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Presentation Neon and Jasmine by Anastasia Mamotenko, featuring a hyper poetry performance by Rougepique.

We’ll read prose, drink champagne, celebrate, and disappear into the Parisian night together.

29 August · 7 PM
Motto Paris
6 Rue des Filles du Calvaire
75003 Paris, France

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Cockring
Eric Pougeau

Launch, Thursday 27 August, 6pm
Motto Paris @ Ofr Editions
6 rue des Filles du Calvaire
75003 Paris

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Hugo Capablanca
@motto_paris
Saturday 22 August from 6pm

Collage works on canvas

+ a live sound performance (8pm)

Motto Paris
Summer residence @ Ofr Editions
6 rue des filles du calvaire
75003 Paris

With special thanx to Vasco Cesaretti

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MOTTO BERLIN
Skalitzer Str. 68, im Hinterhof
10997 Berlin
U1 Schlesisches Tor

Monday 12-8pm
Tuesday 12-8pm
Wednesday 12 – 8pm
Thursday 12-10pm
Friday 12-10pm
Saturday 12-10pm

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AI MUST DIE
Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence

Myke Walton, Cam Smith
2025

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(On view) @hao_h2o An Overheated Ice Cube

HAO HSU 許皓 at @motto_paris

August 1 - August 14, 2026
Motto Paris - 6 Rue des Filles du Calvaire, 75003 Paris

“An Overheated Ice Cube
It is a physical sensation - what kind of force alters things, evaporates the reality that once was true, and realizes it is all just a slice of reality, a mode. The truth is actually hidden much deeper within the pit. An inner tension stirs, about to erupt.
An Overheated Ice Cube explores the imagistic nature of body and experience. It considers them through the process of photographic development: The negative is like a mirror image of the real; experience is the internal mirror image of the body. How do we, within contemporary lived experience, continually project and reprint in order to see the origin of object and body?”

Curated by @markokolomytskyi

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NVRMIND paper - DECADANCE
Dmytro Komissarenko, Yarik Yanchuk, Daniik Yasinev (Eds.)

NVRMIND paper is an independent print publication where monochrome aesthetics serve as a common denominator for various cultural forms. It is more than a mere collection of images and texts; it is a visual anthology capturing distinct perspectives within contemporary art — photography, cinema, music, and fashion — through the prism of the author’s personal experience.

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[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

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New book bag in stock!

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Motto Kreuzberg
Skalitzerstr. 68
10997 Berlin

Mon-Sat 12-8pm

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Motto Paris (@ Ofr Editions)
Summer residency

6 rue des Filles du Calvaire
75003 Paris
Daily 12-8pm

Books, zines, cassettes, vinyls, cds, (…)

(Merci Marie, Alexandre, Antoine et Agulin!!)

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