Published by Information Office, 2022. English text by Marina Roy; 768 pages, 24.3 × 15.2 cm (9.6 × 6 inches), Smyth-sewn hardcover, offset. Design by Derek Barnett.

Taking encyclopedic form, Queuejumping eloquently unspools manifestations of capitalist, colonialist, agrologist, and scientist impulses – all within the context of the letter Q. From queens, queers, quadrupeds, and the Quran to quick, quiddity, and quotidian, artist and scholar Marina Roy masterfully presents research-based art writing, poetry, lists (Q without U: words for Scrabble), found images and piercing essays on humankind’s hunger to supersede the other in order to preference what Roy calls “the vertically-directed world.” Moving effortlessly between the macro and micro — from millions of years of organic decay to the the contemplation of contemporary art — Queuejumping is concerned with the origins of hegemonic forces, what is lost by winning, and what is gained by stepping out of line.