Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin
@verdur.in
https://verdur.in - cultural project and event space, concept store, and soon publisher in London.
https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
Spotted in the wild.
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Spotted in the wild.
Inversion launch in Berlin
With Travis Jeppesen, Ran Heilbrunn, and Amir Naaman.
5 December, at Village, Kurfürstenstraße.
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With Travis Jeppesen, Ran Heilbrunn, and Amir Naaman.
5 December, at Village, Kurfürstenstraße.
buff.ly/bqKhUmn
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Inversion launch in Berlin
With Travis Jeppesen, Ran Heilbrunn, and Amir Naaman.
5 December, at Village, Kurfürstenstraße.
buff.ly/bqKhUmn
With Travis Jeppesen, Ran Heilbrunn, and Amir Naaman.
5 December, at Village, Kurfürstenstraße.
buff.ly/bqKhUmn
Tonight: Recitations with Sam Jennings, Isobel McCrum, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Tonight: Recitations with Sam Jennings, Isobel McCrum, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social.
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On doormats today and on newsstands soon, the Christmas issue of The Critic with me on difficulty of contemporary art in churches after the Reformation and the Chinese dystopia presciently foretold by Lawrence Lek.
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
On doormats today and on newsstands soon, the Christmas issue of The Critic with me on difficulty of contemporary art in churches after the Reformation and the Chinese dystopia presciently foretold by Lawrence Lek.
Stephen Adubato is an associate editor at Compact, and his writing has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, and First Things. He teaches philosophy and religion, and is the host of the Cracks in Postmodernity platform.
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Stephen Adubato is an associate editor at Compact, and his writing has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, and First Things. He teaches philosophy and religion, and is the host of the Cracks in Postmodernity platform.
Stephen Adubato: The Deception of Orientation Essentialism
What does the ‘sex’ in homosexual stand for? Sexual liberation rendered the true nature of gay sexuality moot. Is it ontologically possible for a man to be gay lest he recognizes the true nature of homosexuality’s defining practice?
What does the ‘sex’ in homosexual stand for? Sexual liberation rendered the true nature of gay sexuality moot. Is it ontologically possible for a man to be gay lest he recognizes the true nature of homosexuality’s defining practice?
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Stephen Adubato: The Deception of Orientation Essentialism
What does the ‘sex’ in homosexual stand for? Sexual liberation rendered the true nature of gay sexuality moot. Is it ontologically possible for a man to be gay lest he recognizes the true nature of homosexuality’s defining practice?
What does the ‘sex’ in homosexual stand for? Sexual liberation rendered the true nature of gay sexuality moot. Is it ontologically possible for a man to be gay lest he recognizes the true nature of homosexuality’s defining practice?
This Wednesday at Verdurin: Recitations
With Sam Jennings, Isobel McCrum, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social.
📅 26 November, 7pm
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With Sam Jennings, Isobel McCrum, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social.
📅 26 November, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/asRRYr4
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This Wednesday at Verdurin: Recitations
With Sam Jennings, Isobel McCrum, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social.
📅 26 November, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/asRRYr4
With Sam Jennings, Isobel McCrum, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social.
📅 26 November, 7pm
🎟️ buff.ly/asRRYr4
"Untangling this jumble is aesthetically pleasurable, but vexing intellectually. That Urgessa presents these scenes in a style reminiscent of Picasso’s African period, for example, challenges the very possibility of accounting for the ownership of signs."
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"Untangling this jumble is aesthetically pleasurable, but vexing intellectually. That Urgessa presents these scenes in a style reminiscent of Picasso’s African period, for example, challenges the very possibility of accounting for the ownership of signs."
Read David’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Read David’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
David Moulton is a writer and independent researcher interested in literature, philosophy, and the history of science. He is working on a novel.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
David Moulton is a writer and independent researcher interested in literature, philosophy, and the history of science. He is working on a novel.
David Moulton: Towards a Gay Art of Suffering
Can books turn a reader gay? Exploring the evolving gay canon as art and propaganda, Moulton critiques its entanglement in biopolitics.
Can books turn a reader gay? Exploring the evolving gay canon as art and propaganda, Moulton critiques its entanglement in biopolitics.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
David Moulton: Towards a Gay Art of Suffering
Can books turn a reader gay? Exploring the evolving gay canon as art and propaganda, Moulton critiques its entanglement in biopolitics.
Can books turn a reader gay? Exploring the evolving gay canon as art and propaganda, Moulton critiques its entanglement in biopolitics.
In a better world, Inversion wouldn’t share a category with Halberstam, who believes that men’s politics should be modelled on Valerie Solanas and… Spongebob Squarepants.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
In a better world, Inversion wouldn’t share a category with Halberstam, who believes that men’s politics should be modelled on Valerie Solanas and… Spongebob Squarepants.
Join the author of The End of the Gay Rights Revolution, Ronan McCrea, and the editors of Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual, Amir Naaman and Pierre d’Alancaisez, in a discussion on the future of gay culture, history, and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Join the author of The End of the Gay Rights Revolution, Ronan McCrea, and the editors of Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual, Amir Naaman and Pierre d’Alancaisez, in a discussion on the future of gay culture, history, and politics.
Coming up at Verdurin: After the Orgy
Double book launch for ‘Inversion’ and ‘The End of the Gay Rights Revolution’.
📅 12 December, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
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Double book launch for ‘Inversion’ and ‘The End of the Gay Rights Revolution’.
📅 12 December, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ buff.ly/iPG0HX3
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Coming up at Verdurin: After the Orgy
Double book launch for ‘Inversion’ and ‘The End of the Gay Rights Revolution’.
📅 12 December, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ buff.ly/iPG0HX3
Double book launch for ‘Inversion’ and ‘The End of the Gay Rights Revolution’.
📅 12 December, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ buff.ly/iPG0HX3
Trending with Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, @oliverjdavis.bsky.social, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Trending with Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, @oliverjdavis.bsky.social, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
Next week at Verdurin: Recitations
What should we do with do with the AI ‘author’? However closely the machine imitates our narrative abilities, its lack of authorship means we cannot trust its output in the way we believe the work of a writer. How should we adapt to authorless stories?
What should we do with do with the AI ‘author’? However closely the machine imitates our narrative abilities, its lack of authorship means we cannot trust its output in the way we believe the work of a writer. How should we adapt to authorless stories?
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Next week at Verdurin: Recitations
What should we do with do with the AI ‘author’? However closely the machine imitates our narrative abilities, its lack of authorship means we cannot trust its output in the way we believe the work of a writer. How should we adapt to authorless stories?
What should we do with do with the AI ‘author’? However closely the machine imitates our narrative abilities, its lack of authorship means we cannot trust its output in the way we believe the work of a writer. How should we adapt to authorless stories?
The library lists Inversion as both "inclusive" and "harmful". Hot.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The library lists Inversion as both "inclusive" and "harmful". Hot.
His award-winning books include Life is Hard, and Sex Panic and the Punitive State, and The Struggle to be Gay — in Mexico, for Example.
Read Roger’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Read Roger’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
His award-winning books include Life is Hard, and Sex Panic and the Punitive State, and The Struggle to be Gay — in Mexico, for Example.
Read Roger’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Read Roger’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Roger Lancaster is a professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University. His research tries to understand how sexual mores, racial hierarchies, and class predicaments interact in a changing world.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Roger Lancaster is a professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University. His research tries to understand how sexual mores, racial hierarchies, and class predicaments interact in a changing world.
Roger Lancaster: Being and Having in the Gay World
How do terms like ‘gay’ and ‘faggot’ mark a homosexual’s status? Lancaster looks at the ongoing gentrification of identities, challenging fundamental questions of belonging.
How do terms like ‘gay’ and ‘faggot’ mark a homosexual’s status? Lancaster looks at the ongoing gentrification of identities, challenging fundamental questions of belonging.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Roger Lancaster: Being and Having in the Gay World
How do terms like ‘gay’ and ‘faggot’ mark a homosexual’s status? Lancaster looks at the ongoing gentrification of identities, challenging fundamental questions of belonging.
How do terms like ‘gay’ and ‘faggot’ mark a homosexual’s status? Lancaster looks at the ongoing gentrification of identities, challenging fundamental questions of belonging.
Read Blake's essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Read Blake's essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Blake Smith is a historian and translator who lives in Chicago. He writes regularly for Tablet, American Affairs, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Foreign Policy. With Domenic Desocio, he is writing a book on Michael Denneny and gay culture and politics in the 1970s-80s.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Blake Smith is a historian and translator who lives in Chicago. He writes regularly for Tablet, American Affairs, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Foreign Policy. With Domenic Desocio, he is writing a book on Michael Denneny and gay culture and politics in the 1970s-80s.
Blake Smith: For the Love of the Gay World
What do gay men have in common? Smith traces gay’s historical evolution, proposing that the articulation of shared cultural interests might help build a ‘gay world’ once more.
What do gay men have in common? Smith traces gay’s historical evolution, proposing that the articulation of shared cultural interests might help build a ‘gay world’ once more.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Blake Smith: For the Love of the Gay World
What do gay men have in common? Smith traces gay’s historical evolution, proposing that the articulation of shared cultural interests might help build a ‘gay world’ once more.
What do gay men have in common? Smith traces gay’s historical evolution, proposing that the articulation of shared cultural interests might help build a ‘gay world’ once more.
It’s a strange versions of iconoclasm where it’s the viewer, and not the artwork, that is to be hidden from sight.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
November 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s a strange versions of iconoclasm where it’s the viewer, and not the artwork, that is to be hidden from sight.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...