New book by Jalal Toufic
March 11, 2020
Postscripts by HKAH Fellow Jalal Toufic.
The Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities would like to congratulate HKAH fellow Jalal Toufic on the publication of his latest book Postscripts (Stockholm: Moderna Museet, Amsterdam: Roma Publications).
In reviewing this thought-provoking book, Stefania Pandolfo, Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, wrote:
Some works are not just thought-provoking, Jalal Toufic told us; they are also initiations into thinking. Such have been many of his own books and videos, including now Postscripts. They have brought new concepts, and proposed original ways to ponder the most troubling questions of our time.… Some of the concepts the book revisits comprise the architecture of Toufic’s speculative reflection.… They were created, partly through Toufic’s “untimely collaborations” with filmmakers, artists, and dancers, and yet they were also “encountered” (by the subtle body of the thinker-artist), as imaginal entities, autonomous presentations, and resonate with such traditions of being and thought as the Sufism of Ibn al-‘Arabī and psychoanalysis.… At once timely and untimely, worldly and unworldly, engaging the reader, even funny at times, Postscripts will change the way we look at ourselves and our world.
A free PDF of his book can be downloaded here.
Professor Toufic recently participated in a group exhibition titled Theatre of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011 at MoMA PS1 in New York from November 3, 2019 to March 1, 2020.
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