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1	Book Title	The Collected Writings (1991–2024) of a Mortal to Death: Jalal Toufic. Volume One
2	Author	Jalal Toufic
3	Price	$45.00
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5	Metadata	6 x 8 in 624 pp 70 color & 70 bw illus paperback
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7	Description	Over the next three years, No Place Press will collaborate with Jalal Toufic on an ambitious publishing project: The Collected Writings (1991–2024) of a Mortal to Death: Jalal Toufic. 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 and abides in the suspension of the avenir of messianism/Mahdism—some of these works remain forthcoming even after their inclusion in the Collected Writings.
8	Reviews	"In this first of his three-volume set of collected writings, Jalal Toufic bequeaths to us a style of thinking and writing whose force and generosity are legible in the fact that, before his physical death, he nevertheless speaks to us from beyond the grave under all the names of history to tell us, among many other things, that we are mortal, dead even while still physically alive; and that we haunt labyrinthine ruins as dead humans while increasingly living among ruins. Toufic is one of our greatest resources in the face of a world that is reeling toward destruction—now more than ever, we are in urgent need of hisforthcomingpublished writings."—Eduardo Cadava, Philip Mayhew Professor of English, Princeton University, author ofPaper Graveyards, and co-author ofPolitically Red OnThe Unreviewed Writings of a Peerless Thinker, 2020–2022"Jalal Toufic, the most original and captivating Arab thinker and artist of our time, has finally outdone himself.The Unreviewed Writings of a Peerless Thinker, 2020–2022is like a Zen kōan where we re-find the gateless gate of radical closure, the black hole as archive and anti-archive, and those who died before (physically) dying. Indeed, being peerless, whom else could he outdo?"—Omnia El Shakry, Professor of History at Yale University and author ofThe Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt OnOver-Sensitivity"Jalal Toufic is one of the best writers working in America today."—John Zorn On(Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film"Jalal Toufic is an amazing writer. He documents the moves of consciousness in a way that leads the reader ever deeper, from impasse to illusion to new impasse—turning the trap of “what can’t be named” into a true paradise. Both of his books [Distractedand(Vampires)] knocked me out; totally original, totally fascinating."—Richard Foreman, Artistic Director of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater and author ofPlays and Manifesto