{"product_id":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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).","brand":"Jalal Toufic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035686219988,"sku":"9781949484137","price":60.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3eded964-fcc8-4921-a390-d5bc40e486ed.jpg?v=1780368877","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781949484137","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}