{"product_id":"the-collected-writings-1991-2024-of-a-mortal-to-death-9781949484137","title":"The Collected Writings (1991-2024) of a Mortal to Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first in a landmark three-volume series gathering the complete writings of an indispensable voice in contemporary thought and aesthetics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo Place Press is collaborating with Jalal Toufic on an ambitious publishing project: \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Writings (1991-2024) of a Mortal to Death: Jalal Toufic\u003c\/i\u003e. Spanning three volumes of more than six hundred pages each, the series gathers re-edited versions of his earlier works alongside two newly written books, arranged and organized by the author himself. For new readers, the volumes provide an introduction to Toufic's central concepts--including the withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster, radical closure, silence-over, the 180-degree over-turn, and the dancer's two bodies--while for longtime readers they offer a comprehensive view of more than three decades of thought, presented in their most rigorous and fully articulated form. Yet, in keeping with Toufic's practice--which participates in untimely collaboration (including with future filmmakers, thinkers, and artists) and abides in the suspension of the \u003ci\u003eavenir\u003c\/i\u003e of messianism\/Mahdism--some of these works remain forthcoming even after their inclusion in the \u003ci\u003eCollected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume 1 (2025) includes newly revised editions of Toufic's first three books--\u003ci\u003eDistracted\u003c\/i\u003e (1991\/2003); \u003ci\u003e(Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film \u003c\/i\u003e(1993\/2003); and \u003ci\u003eOver-Sensitivity\u003c\/i\u003e (1996\/2009)--together with the script \u003ci\u003eJouissance in Postwar Beirut\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and, new, \u003ci\u003eThe Unreviewed Writings of a Peerless Thinker \u003c\/i\u003e(2024).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJalal 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. A number of his books were published by Forthcoming Books. He has made over twenty films and videos: essay films and conceptual films; short films, feature-length films, and \"inhumanely\" long ones (72 hours, 50 hours); standalone films and others that form part of mixed-media pieces; films he shot himself and films composed entirely of images from works by other filmmakers--Hitchcock, Sokurov, Bergman, etc.--as well as six created in collaboration with his wife, Graziella Rizkallah. His work--alongside that of artists and pretend artists--has been shown in Sharjah Biennials 6, 10, and 11; the 9th Shanghai Biennale; the 5th Guangzhou Triennial; MoMA PS1; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Pompidou; ZKM; Kunsthalle Fridericianum; MAXXI; FKA Witte de With; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; and elsewhere. Many of his films and videos are available for viewing on Vimeo. In 2011, he was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD. From September 2015 to August 2018, he was Director of the School of Visual Arts at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Alba).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"No Place Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057940918546,"sku":"9781949484137","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82b46927-c917-4dae-92c8-142bf1d9948f.jpg?v=1772017570","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-collected-writings-1991-2024-of-a-mortal-to-death-9781949484137","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}