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Forthcoming, second edition (Sternberg Press / e-flux journal)

Forthcoming, second edition (Sternberg Press / e-flux journal)

Current price: $16.00
Publication Date: September 5th, 2014
Publisher:
Sternberg Press
ISBN:
9783956790553
Pages:
296

Description

Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. This second edition of a collection of his essays whirls around the appearance of the unworldly in art, culture, history, and the present.

Praise for Forthcoming, second edition (Sternberg Press / e-flux journal)

Although sometimes couched in what looks like the language of critical theory, Toufic's formal hybridity and poetic methods sharply distinguish Forthcoming from most other titles on those shelves labeled Cultural, Poststructuralist, or Postcolonial Studies.… In his insistence upon treating the dead as a great part of the potential force of this world, Toufic plumbs the poetics of disaster and recuperation in ways that remain both incredibly suggestive and relentlessly radical.—Village Voice Literary Supplement—