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.
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INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/jbCZT9e
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.
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/jbCZT9e
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.
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: 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
🎟️ buff.ly/asRRYr4
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."
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
Coming up at Verdurin: Recitations
How should we adapt to authorless stories? If the machine imitates our narrative abilities, can we trust its output in the way we believe the work of a writer?
With @jchwenger.bsky.social, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, Isobel McCrum, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social
How should we adapt to authorless stories? If the machine imitates our narrative abilities, can we trust its output in the way we believe the work of a writer?
With @jchwenger.bsky.social, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, Isobel McCrum, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Coming up at Verdurin: Recitations
How should we adapt to authorless stories? If the machine imitates our narrative abilities, can we trust its output in the way we believe the work of a writer?
With @jchwenger.bsky.social, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, Isobel McCrum, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social
How should we adapt to authorless stories? If the machine imitates our narrative abilities, can we trust its output in the way we believe the work of a writer?
With @jchwenger.bsky.social, Nina Power, Sam Riviere, Isobel McCrum, and @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social
INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/jbCZT9e
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.
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/jbCZT9e
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 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/jbCZT9e
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.
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/jbCZT9e
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.
Last weekend at Verdurin with J.F. Martel, Quentin S. Crisp, Jack Hunter, @petersjostedth.bsky.social, and Daniel Corrick, plus Amir Naaman.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Last weekend at Verdurin with J.F. Martel, Quentin S. Crisp, Jack Hunter, @petersjostedth.bsky.social, and Daniel Corrick, plus Amir Naaman.
Last weekend at Verdurin with J.F. Martel, Quentin S. Crisp, Jack Hunter, @petersjostedth.bsky.social, and Daniel Corrick, plus Amir Naaman.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Last weekend at Verdurin with J.F. Martel, Quentin S. Crisp, Jack Hunter, @petersjostedth.bsky.social, and Daniel Corrick, plus Amir Naaman.
So I've been invited to apply to be invited to max out my credit card to go on an "artist-led" "exclusive retreat" in Andalusia where gay men, "facilitated" by the likes of Jonathan Katz and Paul Burston, can think about what they've done.
Thanks, but I might just read my own book.
Thanks, but I might just read my own book.
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
So I've been invited to apply to be invited to max out my credit card to go on an "artist-led" "exclusive retreat" in Andalusia where gay men, "facilitated" by the likes of Jonathan Katz and Paul Burston, can think about what they've done.
Thanks, but I might just read my own book.
Thanks, but I might just read my own book.
Latest arrivals at the bookstore, including writing by @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social, Sam Riviere, Jack Hunter, Daniel Corrick, and @petersjostedth.bsky.social who will be speaking at Verdurin events this month.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Latest arrivals at the bookstore, including writing by @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social, Sam Riviere, Jack Hunter, Daniel Corrick, and @petersjostedth.bsky.social who will be speaking at Verdurin events this month.
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INVERSION is out next Wednesday.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
INVERSION is out next Wednesday.
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notes and notices: Christopher Wool at Gagosian ★★★☆☆
Wool’s convoluted lines – in bent copper-plated steel, scrawled enamel, oil, or silkscreen – encourage the belief that, despite life’s difficulties, what starts at A will make it to B and, eventually, somehow back to A again.
Wool’s convoluted lines – in bent copper-plated steel, scrawled enamel, oil, or silkscreen – encourage the belief that, despite life’s difficulties, what starts at A will make it to B and, eventually, somehow back to A again.
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
notes and notices: Christopher Wool at Gagosian ★★★☆☆
Wool’s convoluted lines – in bent copper-plated steel, scrawled enamel, oil, or silkscreen – encourage the belief that, despite life’s difficulties, what starts at A will make it to B and, eventually, somehow back to A again.
Wool’s convoluted lines – in bent copper-plated steel, scrawled enamel, oil, or silkscreen – encourage the belief that, despite life’s difficulties, what starts at A will make it to B and, eventually, somehow back to A again.
Reposted by Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin
Announcing: INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out 12 November. Pre-order now: buff.ly/cYWH4jK
With Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
Out 12 November. Pre-order now: buff.ly/cYWH4jK
With Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
September 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Announcing: INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out 12 November. Pre-order now: buff.ly/cYWH4jK
With Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
Out 12 November. Pre-order now: buff.ly/cYWH4jK
With Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
