My book Objections is slowly finding its way in the world… Recently, a substantial and thoughtful review by Jaleh Mansoor was published in De Witte Raaf—in a Dutch translation by Christophe Van Gerrewey, but in case Dutch is all Greek to you, you could always get some helpful AI entity to (re)translate it for you.

Belatedly, I’m doing a couple of book launches in the coming months: on November 10 (19:30) at pro qm in Berlin, and on December 7 (18:00) at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. As ever, I try to make these events dia- rather than monological. I will be in conversation with Marina Vishmidt at pro qm; participant(s) the the Rijks will be announced soon.

In light of the Stanley Brouwn cottage industry that has sprung up in the US, I thought I’d post a scan of my 2018 review of two modest Dutch Brouwn exhibitions, which is buried in an old issue of Texte zur Kunst. Apart from an annoying autocorrect mishap/editorial oversight that turned a French Enlightenment philosopher into an airplane (Concordet became Concorde), I’m still quite happy with this short reflection on Brouwn’s practice—and on the challenges it poses for the critic or art historian.

At the Miss Read book fair at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, from September 22-24, BAK distributed a printed brochure with Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf’s essay on Jacqueline Kahanoff’s notion of Levantinism, which I commissioned for my “ExitStateCraft” series on BAK’s prospections platform. The text is here.

It’s funny that the text was thus circulated in the HKW; in 2020, Eran, Eva and I proposed a project on Levantinism to the then-curator of the HKW, but we never heard back. Now it turns out there’s an office space dedicated to Kahanoff at the institution—which is something, I suppose.

Under the dismal circumstances of the present, it is as crucial as ever to sound out the anachronistic potential of Kahanoff’s Levantinism. As Alexander Kluge once put it: “The potential and the historical roots and the detours of possibilities also belong to reality. The realistic result, the actual result, is only an abstraction that has murdered all other possibilities for the moment. But these possibilities will recur.”

The second part of my essay “Capitalism and Schismogenesis” is in the October issue of e-flux journal. In a way, the splitting of this article into two installments strengthens the pun in the title; after all, Capitalism and Schizophrenia consists of two volumes. Nonetheless, the article was not written as a two-parter, and should be considered one text. While I may be slightly ambivalent about breaking up, on the whole I couldn’t be happier with the care taken by the editors in making this long-gestating piece public.