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Jalal Toufic at e-flux, What Was I Thinking?

e-flux Podcast

Posted: November 25, 2018

New York book launch: Jalal Toufic, What Was I Thinking?
Lecture by the author and conversation with Walid Raad

Jalal Toufic and Walid Raad

e-flux Events

Posted: February 28, 2018

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Philosophy

Double Feature: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Jalal Toufic’s Vertiginous Variations on Vertigo

Jalal Toufic

e-flux Events

Posted: February 26, 2018

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Film

What Was I Thinking?

Jalal Toufic

An open-ended “summa” that takes the arts as if they were the privileged site of thinking, even when they inevitably fail.

e-flux Books

Posted: October 18, 2017

Category

Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Aesthetics, Film

Subjects

Lebanon, Middle East, Death, The Occult & Mysticism

What’s Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It?

What we can no longer get from the state, the party, the union, the boss, we ask for from one another.

e-flux Books

Posted: July 10, 2017

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Feminism, Labor & Work, Technology, LGBTQ+, Sexuality & Eroticism, Philosophy

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Love, Intimacy, Family, Biopolitics, Drugs & Psychedelia, Debt, Networks, Queer Art & Theory, Biology, Community, Everyday Life, Death

A Museum of Immortality

Balsam Abozor, Reem Akl, Liane Al Ghusain, Barbara Anderlic, Stefan Bakmand Andersen, Christiane Assoury, Ida Kat Balslev, Nikola Hartl, Mirna Bamieh, Daniel Barroca, Monica Basbous, Mihaela Brebenel, Maeve Brennan, Tony Chakar, Miguel Fernández de Castro, Laure de Selys, Rachel Dedman, Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano, Octavian Esanu, Hadia Gana, Raymond Gemayel, Romain Hamard, Daphné Praud, Fadi Hennawi, Maxime Hourani, Amal Issa, Rahel Kesselring, Jessika Khazrik, Jinjoo Kim, Tarek Knorn, Nada Zanhour, Lynn Kodeih, Ele Krekeler, Mikko Maki, MoAA, Bettina Mooshamer, Mehreen Murtaza, Nanna Neudeck, Arjuna Neuman, Philip Pilekjær, Rivers Plasketes, Christopher Miller, Ambra Pittoni, Oleksiy Radynski, Raed Rafei, Eshan Rafi, Alicja Rogalska, Mahmoud Safadi, Maria Sarkis, Sarah Schalk, Clara Sfeir, Haruna Takakura, Pelin Tan, Graziella Rizkallah Toufic, Jalal Toufic, Anton Vidokle, and Nathan Witt

e-flux Events

Posted: June 11, 2014

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Architecture

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Museology

Sternberg Press

Jalal Toufic: Forthcoming (second edition) launches in Berlin and Beirut

e-flux Announcement

Posted: May 27, 2014

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Interviews & Conversations, Literature

Subjects

Futures

Institution

Sternberg Press

A Hitherto Unrecognized Apocalyptic Photographer: The Universe

Jalal Toufic

“[Paul Gsell:] ‘Well, then, when in the interpretation of movement he [the artist] completely contradicts photography, which is an unimpeachable mechanical testimony, he evidently alters truth.’ ‘No,’ replied Rodin, ‘it is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop, and if the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the…

e-flux Journal

Posted: May 1, 2014

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Philosophy, Photography

Ashkal Alwan

Hito Steyerl: Junktime at Home Workspace Program, Beirut

e-flux Announcement

Posted: April 8, 2014

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Data & Information, Film, Image

Subjects

Temporality, Media theory , Ruins, Futures

Institution

Ashkal Alwan

Forthcoming

Jalal Toufic

A second edition of the influential Beirut artist and thinker’s timeless text

e-flux Books

Posted: April 1, 2014

Category

Film, Photography

Subjects

Middle East, Lebanon, Publishing, Video Art, Accidents & Disasters, Postcolonial Theory

Ashkal Alwan

Home Workspace Program presents Salon de Fleurus

e-flux Announcement

Posted: December 19, 2013

Category

Education, Modernism

Subjects

Art Collecting , Abstraction

Institution

Ashkal Alwan

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e-flux journal issue 50
out now

e-flux Announcement

Posted: December 9, 2013

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If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? No

Jalal Toufic

Dedicated to the living memory of Gilles Deleuze, a non-revengeful philosopher Have we not eyes ? No: “He [a Japanese man]: ‘You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.’ She [a French woman visiting the city]: ‘I saw everything . Everything .… The hospital, for instance, I saw it. I’m sure I did.…’ ‘You did not see the hospital in Hiroshima. You saw nothing in Hiroshima.’ … ‘Four times at the museum in Hiroshima.… I … looked thoughtfully at the iron … made vulnerable as flesh ……

e-flux Journal

Posted: December 1, 2013

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Literature, Philosophy

Ashkal Alwan

Adam Curtis: The Desperate Edge of Now

e-flux Announcement

Posted: November 4, 2013

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Interviews & Conversations, War & Conflict, Education

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Television, Documentary, Libraries & Archives, Storytelling

Institution

Ashkal Alwan

e-flux journal: “Pieces of the Planet” special launch

Walter Benjamin, Hu Fang, Walid Raad, Rijin Sahakian, Hito Steyerl, Oxana Timofeeva, Jalal Toufic, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood, May Kassem, Nesrine Khodr, and Stefan Tarnowski

e-flux Events

Posted: November 3, 2013

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Education

e-flux journal

e-flux journal issue 48: Pieces of the Planet, Issue One out now

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Posted: October 11, 2013

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Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee—in Less than 1/24 of a Second

Jalal Toufic

Did the descent of the standard film camera lenses from Renaissance Western monocular perspective place early Muslim filmmakers at a disadvantage when it came to a genuine formal contribution in the medium of cinema, since these filmmakers came from a tradition that until only a century or so ago (the age of cinema) was, especially in its Arabic regions, still resistant to, rather than ignorant of, Renaissance perspective? Cinema would appear to disadvantage Muslim filmmakers steeped in…

e-flux Journal

Posted: October 1, 2013

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Film

Subjects

Islam, Temporality, Abstraction

"Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography," Sharjah Biennial 11

Antonia Alampi

e-flux Criticism

Posted: March 14, 2013

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Language & Linguistics, Music, Religion & Spirituality

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Biennials, Sound Art, Folklore & Tradition, Historicity & Historiography

Ashkal Alwan

Call for applications:
Home Workspace Program (HWP) 2013–14

e-flux Announcement

Posted: February 22, 2013

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Ashkal Alwan

Call for applications:
Home Workspace Program (HWP) 2013–14

e-flux Announcement

Posted: January 15, 2013

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Ashkal Alwan

Creating and Dispersing Universes that Work without Working

e-flux Announcement

Posted: January 15, 2013

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Education, Film

Subjects

Middle East, Artistic Research

Institution

Ashkal Alwan

The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Resurrected God!

Jalal Toufic

“Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him,…

e-flux Journal

Posted: November 1, 2012

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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Christianity

The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Lived then Died!

Jalal Toufic

To be fully alive and then die physically, a state most people mistakenly view as being ours in general, a given, is actually an exceptional state. What would it take to achieve what we assume our condition to be? It would take no less than being resurrected by the Christ, “the life” (John 11:25). Yes, to be fully alive and then die physically is not the condition of all humans, but is rather the exceptional condition of the New Testament’s brother of Mary and Martha, the one who was…

e-flux Journal

Posted: December 1, 2011

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Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

Subjects

Death, Christianity

The Contemporary Is Still Forthcoming

Jalal Toufic

Contemporary art? As far as I am largely un concerned, none of what is termed contemporary art, including what is exhibited and screened in various “museums of contemporary art,” for example the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (MCA) or the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA), is contemporary 1 and most of it is not art! There can be no museum of contemporary art since while now we can have museums but not contemporaneity, with the coming of the messiah we are going to…

e-flux Journal

Posted: October 1, 2011

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Philosophy, Contemporary Art, Museums

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Contemporaneity

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e-flux journal issue #19

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Posted: October 22, 2010

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