Join us for the launch of the first volume of the three-volume series The Collected Writings (1991–2024) of a Mortal to Death: Jalal Toufic. The evening will include a short talk by Jalal Toufic, followed by a conversation with artist Walid Raad, a Q&A with the audience, and a book signing.

Volume 1 (2025) includes newly revised editions of Toufic’s first three books—Distracted (1991/2003), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993/2003), and Over-Sensitivity (1996/2009)—together with the script Jouissance in Postwar Beirut (2014) and a new book, The Unreviewed Writings of a Peerless Thinker (2024).

Jalal Toufic is “today, and has been for some time, the most original thinker on the planet” (Etel Adnan), in other words, “one of the most important ‘living’ writers (I put the word ‘living’ in quotation marks for Toufic would never refer to himself as solely a living writer, but more as a writer and a mortal to death)” (Walid Raad).

Happening on Friday, June 12 at 16.30