Facing Forward

Remember Facing Forward? :-)

After years of careful editorial deliberation, I am very proud to announce that the volume of essays "Facing Forward: Art & Theory From a Future Perspective" is hitting the stands at AUP! With remarkable essays by Amelia Jones, Jim Elkins, Hito Steyerl, Rem Koolhaas, Manuel Delanda, Jalal Toufic, China Miéville, Iwona Blazwick, among others. Statements on the theme of "Future's Future" by Juha Vantzelfde, Timotheus Vermeulen, Ding Ren and many others. To order the book, please visit http://bit.ly/1H2mxCd (first run is limited, so be quick!).

Co-edited by Margriet Schavemaker, Christoph Lindner and myself, and based on the eponymous lecture series, organized in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, University of Amsterdam, de Appel arts centre, W139, SMBA and Metropolis M.

2nd speaker at Future City will be awardwinning fantasy-fiction writer CHINA MIÉVILLE! find out more about him at his website http://chinamieville.net and this article about his book Embassytown by the guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/china-mieville-life-writing-genre

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