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.
Coming up at Verdurin: I, Internet
Making Art in the Machine
📅 31 January, 2-6pm
🎟️ buff.ly/KSqNMVo
With contributions by Helen Rollins, John-Robin Bold, and Tony D Sampson, plus screenings of works by Chris Boyd, Eva and Franco Mattes,, Neue Deutsche Kunst, et al.
🎬 Renée, Marginalia, 2025
Making Art in the Machine
📅 31 January, 2-6pm
🎟️ buff.ly/KSqNMVo
With contributions by Helen Rollins, John-Robin Bold, and Tony D Sampson, plus screenings of works by Chris Boyd, Eva and Franco Mattes,, Neue Deutsche Kunst, et al.
🎬 Renée, Marginalia, 2025
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Coming up at Verdurin: I, Internet
Making Art in the Machine
📅 31 January, 2-6pm
🎟️ buff.ly/KSqNMVo
With contributions by Helen Rollins, John-Robin Bold, and Tony D Sampson, plus screenings of works by Chris Boyd, Eva and Franco Mattes,, Neue Deutsche Kunst, et al.
🎬 Renée, Marginalia, 2025
Making Art in the Machine
📅 31 January, 2-6pm
🎟️ buff.ly/KSqNMVo
With contributions by Helen Rollins, John-Robin Bold, and Tony D Sampson, plus screenings of works by Chris Boyd, Eva and Franco Mattes,, Neue Deutsche Kunst, et al.
🎬 Renée, Marginalia, 2025
Until artists start making better art, my monthly sub is going to these three.
January 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Until artists start making better art, my monthly sub is going to these three.
Went to the 9am press preview at the National Gallery in the hope that - since art is suffering - the work would be good because I’d got up so early.
Turns out that’s not how this works.
Turns out that’s not how this works.
January 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Went to the 9am press preview at the National Gallery in the hope that - since art is suffering - the work would be good because I’d got up so early.
Turns out that’s not how this works.
Turns out that’s not how this works.
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, this certainly holds true for the history of internet-inspired art itself.
📽️ Neue Deutsche Kunst
📽️ Neue Deutsche Kunst
January 14, 2026 at 11:02 AM
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, this certainly holds true for the history of internet-inspired art itself.
📽️ Neue Deutsche Kunst
📽️ Neue Deutsche Kunst
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, /
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, /
January 12, 2026 at 12:06 PM
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, /
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. If temporal discontinuity is a feature of our post-internet state of mind, /
Judging by the press releases announcing museum and major gallery programmes for 2026 which I finally dug up from my inbox:
- decolonisation is out,
- indigneneiety is on its last legs,
- but QUEERMAXXING is in.
And I'm not planning on seeing any of it.
- decolonisation is out,
- indigneneiety is on its last legs,
- but QUEERMAXXING is in.
And I'm not planning on seeing any of it.
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Judging by the press releases announcing museum and major gallery programmes for 2026 which I finally dug up from my inbox:
- decolonisation is out,
- indigneneiety is on its last legs,
- but QUEERMAXXING is in.
And I'm not planning on seeing any of it.
- decolonisation is out,
- indigneneiety is on its last legs,
- but QUEERMAXXING is in.
And I'm not planning on seeing any of it.
"If today’s social media is the equivalent of Rosenkrantz with her microphone — presenting an invitation, if not an obligation to create narratives — the idea that these recent technologies uniquely incentivise the production of inauthentic accounts rings hollow.
January 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
"If today’s social media is the equivalent of Rosenkrantz with her microphone — presenting an invitation, if not an obligation to create narratives — the idea that these recent technologies uniquely incentivise the production of inauthentic accounts rings hollow.
Our events planned for this year include symposia on art and religion, decolonisation, literacy, folk culture, and internet art plus courses on the principles of judgment and rhetoric.
Support these projects if you can verdur.in/support/
Support these projects if you can verdur.in/support/
January 3, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Our events planned for this year include symposia on art and religion, decolonisation, literacy, folk culture, and internet art plus courses on the principles of judgment and rhetoric.
Support these projects if you can verdur.in/support/
Support these projects if you can verdur.in/support/
Coming up at Verdurin: I, Internet
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. Recent works by often anonymous, post-millennial artists appear to think on, as much as about, /
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. Recent works by often anonymous, post-millennial artists appear to think on, as much as about, /
December 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Coming up at Verdurin: I, Internet
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. Recent works by often anonymous, post-millennial artists appear to think on, as much as about, /
What does it mean to make art in the machine?
As our consciousness evolves in networks and on platforms, our subjectivity is changing in profound yet unexpected ways. Recent works by often anonymous, post-millennial artists appear to think on, as much as about, /
Read Marcas’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Read Marcas’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
Marcas Lancaster is a writer, producer, and self-professed ‘failed gay’ based in London. He is writing his first and only novel for which he hopes to be martyred.
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Marcas Lancaster is a writer, producer, and self-professed ‘failed gay’ based in London. He is writing his first and only novel for which he hopes to be martyred.
Marcas Lancaster: Anathema
Was homosexuality’s degeneration foretold in the libertine excess of de Sade’s Sodom? Lancaster narrates the unpalatable truths of the AIDS crisis in florid, viral detail, finding in gay excess an image of liberal life itself.
Was homosexuality’s degeneration foretold in the libertine excess of de Sade’s Sodom? Lancaster narrates the unpalatable truths of the AIDS crisis in florid, viral detail, finding in gay excess an image of liberal life itself.
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Marcas Lancaster: Anathema
Was homosexuality’s degeneration foretold in the libertine excess of de Sade’s Sodom? Lancaster narrates the unpalatable truths of the AIDS crisis in florid, viral detail, finding in gay excess an image of liberal life itself.
Was homosexuality’s degeneration foretold in the libertine excess of de Sade’s Sodom? Lancaster narrates the unpalatable truths of the AIDS crisis in florid, viral detail, finding in gay excess an image of liberal life itself.
I returned to my podcasting alma mater @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to speak with Caleb Zakarian and Amir Naaman about 'Inversion'.
👂🎧 buff.ly/v0R2CSU
👂🎧 buff.ly/v0R2CSU
December 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I returned to my podcasting alma mater @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to speak with Caleb Zakarian and Amir Naaman about 'Inversion'.
👂🎧 buff.ly/v0R2CSU
👂🎧 buff.ly/v0R2CSU
Does aestheticising technological futures curtail our ability to critique them? Have we given up on understanding the systems that shape our lives on grounds of their efficiency masquerading in promises of liberation?
December 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Does aestheticising technological futures curtail our ability to critique them? Have we given up on understanding the systems that shape our lives on grounds of their efficiency masquerading in promises of liberation?
Read Yotam’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Read Yotam’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
Yotam Feldmam is the author of The Solar Mind, a philosophical treatise on scarcity and abundance, and director of the award-winning documentary The Lab. He was previously an investigative writer for Haaretz newspaper and is the founder and editor of Lot, a neo-decadent literature and art magazine.
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Yotam Feldmam is the author of The Solar Mind, a philosophical treatise on scarcity and abundance, and director of the award-winning documentary The Lab. He was previously an investigative writer for Haaretz newspaper and is the founder and editor of Lot, a neo-decadent literature and art magazine.
Yotam Feldman: Twilights of Homosexuality
Is homosexuality the Trojan horse of Western ideology? Taking his cue from Alexander Dugin’s ‘realist’ denunciation, Feldman exposes the homosexual’s propensity for deceit and intrigue.
Is homosexuality the Trojan horse of Western ideology? Taking his cue from Alexander Dugin’s ‘realist’ denunciation, Feldman exposes the homosexual’s propensity for deceit and intrigue.
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Yotam Feldman: Twilights of Homosexuality
Is homosexuality the Trojan horse of Western ideology? Taking his cue from Alexander Dugin’s ‘realist’ denunciation, Feldman exposes the homosexual’s propensity for deceit and intrigue.
Is homosexuality the Trojan horse of Western ideology? Taking his cue from Alexander Dugin’s ‘realist’ denunciation, Feldman exposes the homosexual’s propensity for deceit and intrigue.
mix. Cowboy fetishises a stable boy with a scripted confession. But even its elaborate two-screen projection, which contrasts the mare’s trot with lazily composed images of the sea shore, fails to bring this non-story to a satisfactory end. All this takes too much room (five months in
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
mix. Cowboy fetishises a stable boy with a scripted confession. But even its elaborate two-screen projection, which contrasts the mare’s trot with lazily composed images of the sea shore, fails to bring this non-story to a satisfactory end. All this takes too much room (five months in
meat in the open-air stalls, yet not even their unsanitary conditions are worthy of note. Ashadu captured this scene through a piece of translucent red plastic, as though that somehow bestowed it with significance. She is aware of the filmic tradition borne out of such images yet is unable to
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
meat in the open-air stalls, yet not even their unsanitary conditions are worthy of note. Ashadu captured this scene through a piece of translucent red plastic, as though that somehow bestowed it with significance. She is aware of the filmic tradition borne out of such images yet is unable to
notes and notices: Karimah Ashadu: Tendered at Camden Art Centre ★★☆☆☆
Ashadu’s films are as banal as they are overbought with glib signifiers. Take King of Boys, a five-minute survey of butchery in a meat market in the slums of Lagos. The document is trivial on the face of it: knives hack through
Ashadu’s films are as banal as they are overbought with glib signifiers. Take King of Boys, a five-minute survey of butchery in a meat market in the slums of Lagos. The document is trivial on the face of it: knives hack through
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
notes and notices: Karimah Ashadu: Tendered at Camden Art Centre ★★☆☆☆
Ashadu’s films are as banal as they are overbought with glib signifiers. Take King of Boys, a five-minute survey of butchery in a meat market in the slums of Lagos. The document is trivial on the face of it: knives hack through
Ashadu’s films are as banal as they are overbought with glib signifiers. Take King of Boys, a five-minute survey of butchery in a meat market in the slums of Lagos. The document is trivial on the face of it: knives hack through
Read Oliver’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Read Oliver’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
His research in political technologies spans contemporary French philosophical accounts of politics, queer studies, the psychedelic humanities, conspiracy theory, and mis/disinformation.
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
His research in political technologies spans contemporary French philosophical accounts of politics, queer studies, the psychedelic humanities, conspiracy theory, and mis/disinformation.
Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social is a professor of French at University College Cork and co-author, with Tim Dean, of Hatred of Sex, a critique of queer theory’s forgetting of sex and the wider culture’s obsession with trauma.
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social is a professor of French at University College Cork and co-author, with Tim Dean, of Hatred of Sex, a critique of queer theory’s forgetting of sex and the wider culture’s obsession with trauma.
Oliver Davis: The Great Gay Replacement
What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality.
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality.
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Oliver Davis: The Great Gay Replacement
What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality.
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality.
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
Why is the art commissioned for churches - such as the 'Hear Us' graffiti at Canterbury Cathedral - so woefully uninspiring? Does contemporary art have anything to say about faith, or vice versa?
The answer lies in the English Reformation. Me in The Critic.
The answer lies in the English Reformation. Me in The Critic.
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Why is the art commissioned for churches - such as the 'Hear Us' graffiti at Canterbury Cathedral - so woefully uninspiring? Does contemporary art have anything to say about faith, or vice versa?
The answer lies in the English Reformation. Me in The Critic.
The answer lies in the English Reformation. Me in The Critic.