Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 8hConcerns about the technologically fuelled decline of literacy overlook that reading and writing have always been technological. Alison Brady extends Vilém Flusser challenge in this second part of "Out of Print". Now online: buff.ly/xAayKCi 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 12hLast weekend at Verdurin: The Instant of My Death With Maya Pettersen, Jacob Phillips, David Roden, organised with Rose Lyddon. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 05/10/2026Is writing under threat from AI? Is reading a lost art? Could Homer have imagined these questions at the dawn of literacy? Daniel Hadas's talk at "Out of Print", Verdurin's symposium on literacy, held in June 2026 and organised with Edmund King is now online. buff.ly/xAayKCi 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 05/10/2026TONIGHT: Nitrate Film: The Blue Express Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology? 📅 5 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 03/10/2026Monday at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: The Blue Express Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology? 📅 5 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 02/10/2026Monday in Nitrate Film: The Blue Express Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology? 📅 5 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 30/09/2026Monday in Nitrate Film: The Blue Express Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology? 📅 5 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst 001
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 29/09/2026Coming up at Verdurin: Trauma Fiction A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp. and Joshua Knapp. 📅 13 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/rWC6h3y 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 29/09/2026The full programme for 'The Instant of My Death' — a symposium with Maya Pettersen, Jacob Phillips, David Roden, organised with Rose Lyddon — is now online. (Sold out, alas.) 🎟️ buff.ly/RKDm63f 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 28/09/2026Next Monday: Nitrate Film: The Blue Express Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology? 📅 5 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/zMl5kst 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 28/09/2026🎧👂 Coming soon: Verdurin event podcast! Thanks to the great work by John-Robin Bold, we will soon be able to bring you some of the highlights from our event archive in the form of a podcast. 100
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 28/09/2026On doormats today and on news stands soon, the October issue of The Critic, with me on "Middle-Eastern contemporary art" — a compound noun that is the opposite of what it seems — and the great refusal, or resignations, of artists too wary to keep making art. buff.ly/NFY0lTu 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 26/09/2026This kind of "irony" is evident in the Prize selection itself, at the very level of aesthetics. Maybe art is the world, after all. buff.ly/LBatY1S 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 25/09/2026There are some forms of vigilantism that I appreciate. (Although sad to have outlived Schiele by such a margin.) 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 25/09/2026Just announced: Disenchantment, or the Liturgy of Lack A discussion on religious experience with Peter Rollins. What if the embrace of alienation gave rise to religious conversion? 📅 28 October, 7pm 📍 Verdurin, London 🎟️ buff.ly/gPB42Tk 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 25/09/2026Going on Radio 4's 'Free Thinking' tonight to talk about.. intellectuals with.. intellectuals. 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 23/09/2026You can now read the first chapters of Liam Blackford's 'The Stud' — and preorder the ebook — on Apple Books! buff.ly/nzisvvZ 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 22/09/2026"Check your facts" — the politicisation of art has turned even cultural venue toilet graffiti incredibly dull. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 22/09/2026notes and notices: Emma Reyes at White Cube ★★★☆☆ The paintings of the late Colombian Emma Reyes — abstracts of lines, spots, and colours that only occasionally amount to nature or the human... Read on: buff.ly/8QN1h49 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 22/09/2026Coming up in Nitrate Film: The Blue Express Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology? 📅 5 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/v8j4j4F 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 21/09/2026Death and Sex in Palestine: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour reflects on, among other things, Amir Naaman's essay in Inversion. buff.ly/PVufumm 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 21/09/2026notes and notices: John Tweddle, Michael Landy: Market Day at The Mayor Gallery ★★★☆☆ The art market is a perversion of trade. That today’s artists routinely oppose “capitalism” but crave a moral carve-out for the circulation of their work only proves this... Read on: buff.ly/oJxCYtE 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 21/09/2026Amazon UK has INVERSION on sale buff.ly/6bLLbPJ If you've been holding out for some reason, grab a copy now! 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 20/09/2026notes and notices: The Studio of Felicity Powell at Richard Saltoun ★★☆☆☆ To posthumously make myth of an artist risks bathos. Powell, who died in 2015, left just enough worthwhile sculpture and drawing behind to assemble a minor museum display... Read on: buff.ly/fSRpBX8 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 19/09/2026notes and notices: Quentin James McCaffrey at Alison Jacques ★★☆☆☆ McCaffrey’s paintings of imagined European interiors decorated with imagined European art are the perfect postcards of an American mind for whom everything is ‘content’... Read on: buff.ly/HZEti59 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 18/09/2026"Britain has a case for culture". Well, does it? Hardly anybody believes that culture is useful other than instrumentally. And instrumentally, it doesn't work. And what is culture anyhow? buff.ly/e19mpFk 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 18/09/2026Coming up at Verdurin: Trauma Fiction Against the rise of trauma culture, truth is no longer the currency of wrongs. A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp. 📅 13 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/4p65otN 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 17/09/2026Coming up at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: The Blue Express Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology? 📅 5 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/v8j4j4F 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14/09/2026Just announced: Nitrate Film: The Blue Express Screening and discussion with Zinovy Zinik If rolling or film stock can collapse social strata, could they also couple nations and cultures in ideology? 📅 5 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/v8j4j4F 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 10/09/2026Recognition from my people at last. buff.ly/mHDYWH8 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 10/09/2026Just announced : Trauma Fiction A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp. 📅 13 October, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/4p65otN 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 07/09/2026Friday in Bournemouth: 9/11 Watch Party 📅 11 September, 7pm 📍 Wild Boscombe, Bornemouth ℹ️ buff.ly/9xjvyIh Join us for the as-seen-on-TV event of the year, launching the first-ever Adam Curtis Party conference in Bournemouth. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 05/09/2026Recent arrivals at the store. buff.ly/AonkVMr 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 04/09/2026📖 BOOK COVER REVEAL! The Hermitage by Quentin S. Crisp A novella on vocation, inheritance, and loss 📅 Out 1 December 2026 🛒 PRE-ORDER NOW 🔗 buff.ly/ohdVuhQ 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 03/09/2026Coming up at Verdurin: The Instant of My Death A symposium with Douglas Davies, Maya Pettersen, Jacob Phillips, David Roden, organised with Rose Lyddon. 📅 3 October, 2-6pm 🎟️ buff.ly/BLPZr8X 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 02/09/2026Last night at Verdurin, screening "Gabriel Over the White House" with Dominic Green and Kit Ramsay. Next in Nitrate Film: "The Blue Express", with Zinovy Zinik, on 6 October. 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 01/09/2026Psychoanalysis for the Fourth Industrial Revolution New course with Helen Rollins starts in three weeks! 📅 21 September - 2 November, 7-9pm 🙋 Four fortnightly sessions, in person at Verdurin 🎟️ £100/concessions 🔗 buff.ly/hokoUHQ 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 01/09/2026Tonight: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House with @DrDominicGreen 📅 1 September, 7pm 🎟️ verdur.in/event/gabrie... 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 31/08/2026Tomorrow at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House with Dominic Green 📅 1 September, 7pm 🎟️ verdur.in/event/gabrie... 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 28/08/2026New course staring next month: Psychoanalysis for the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Helen Rollins 📅 21 September - 2 November, 7-9pm 🙋 Four fortnightly sessions, in person at Verdurin 🎟️ £100/concessions 🔗 buff.ly/hokoUHQ 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 27/08/2026Next week at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House with Dominic Green 📅 1 September, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/VRsvSD6 Dominic Green is a historian, columnist, and critic. 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 26/08/2026The first review copies of Liam Blackford's THE STUD are here! Out on 18 November. Pre-order now! verdur.in/publication/... 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 26/08/2026Starting next month: Psychoanalysis for the Fourth Industrial Revolution With Helen Rollins 📅 21 September - 2 November, 7-9pm 🙋 Four fortnightly sessions, in person at Verdurin 🎟️ £100/concessions 🔗 buff.ly/hokoUHQ 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 25/08/2026Next week at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House with Dominic Green 📅 1 September, 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/VRsvSD6 Dominic Green is a historian, columnist, and critic. 010
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 25/08/2026Recording the audiobook of Quentin S. Crisp's "The Hermitage" — out on 1 December! Pre-order the paperback: verdur.in/publication/... 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 23/08/2026"recently, on a date with a younger man, who may well have resembled Arthur..." When I say that criticism must focus on the artefact, what I mean is that I am the artefact. But so are you. I reviewed "A. Rimbaud", Patrick Wang's three-hour monologue biopic, for The Critic Mag. 🔗 buff.ly/YyHOVMy 021
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 22/08/2026ICA London screens "A. Rimbaud" today and next Sunday. buff.ly/d8Hhofn 000
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 22/08/2026Rimbaud's poetry and life prove that language can destroy romantic ideas even as it inadvertently gives rise to them. I reviewed "A. Rimbaud", Patrick Wang's gloriously impossible three-hour biopic for The Critic. buff.ly/YyHOVMy 100