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Overmorrow’s Library

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The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève presents Overmorrow’s Library, a podcast series by Federico Campagna, available on the 5th floor (digital extension): https://5e.centre.ch/en/ The library for ‘the day after tomorrow’ is dedicated to books and authors whose work explores the limits of the ‘world’ as the frame of sense through which our consciousness experiences the chaos of reality. Each new episode presents a book that engages with the challenge of world-making, with the end-time of a world, or with the eternal unworldly. Spanning mysticism, politics, mythology, philosophy, video-game design and more, the shelves of Overmorrow’s Library are a space for experimenting with the apocalypse, and with the ignition of new cosmogonies. Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher and writer living in London. His latest books are ‘Prophetic Culture: Recreation for Adolescents’ (Bloomsbury, 2021), ‘Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality’ (Bloomsbury, 2018), and ‘The Last Night: Anti-work, Atheism, Adventure’ (Zero Books, 2013). He is a lecturer and tutor at KABK, The Hague, and has presented his work in institutions including the Warburg Institute, the Royal Academy, the 57th and 58th Venice Biennale, Documenta 13, Winzavod Center, Jameel Art Centre, Tate Modern and the Serpentine Gallery. He is the director of rights at the radical publisher Verso Books. Image credit: The Gilgamesh Tablet (Library of Ashurbanipal), 7th c. BCE. The British Museum, London. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
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Episodes

S2E15 – ‘The Alexander Romance’

Image credit: The prophets Elias and Khadir at the fountain of life, late 15th century. Folio from a khamsa (quintet) by Nizami (d. 1209); Timurid period. Opaque watercolor and silver on paper. Herat, Afghanistan.

Sep 30, 202226 minEp. 33

S2E2 – Dr. Beatrice Bottomley on Ibn Arabi

Image credit: Muhammad Ibn 'Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn 'Arabi (D. 1240 Ad): Fusus Al-Hikam . Mamluk Egypt, dated 19 Dhu'l Hijja Ah 797/4 October 1395 AD.

Jun 30, 202225 minEp. 20

S1E18 – Francesco Fusaro on musical cosmologies

Musicologist and producer Francesco Fusaro discusses world-building music across the centuries. Credit: Francesco Fusaro, Tafelmusik Var. I, 2021. Collage, 65x92. Courtesy of the artist.

Mar 18, 20211 hr 2 minEp. 18

S1E17 – Arturo Campagna on children's literature

6-years old Arturo Campagna discusses children’s literature and dispenses advice to writers for children. Image credits: Rain Wu, Arion , 2019. Stoneware clay and glazes, 9x11cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Mar 11, 202120 minEp. 17

S1E16 – Elemire Zolla, "Children's Awe" and Cristina Campo, "The Flute and the Rug"

Federico Campagna presents the philosophical take on children’s world-view and culture in Elemire Zolla’s 1994 “Children’s Awe” and Cristina Campo’s 1971 “The Flute and the Rug”. Image credits: Ivan Bilibin, Stage-set design for Scene Two, Act Four of the opera the "Tale of the Lost City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" by Rimsky-Korsakov, 1929.

Mar 04, 202120 minEp. 16

S1E15 – Fr. Paul Butler on radical theology

Liberation theologian Father Paul Butler discusses the radical interpretations of the Christian message. Image credits: The oldest surviving depiction of Saint Francis, Benedictine abbey of Subiaco, painted between March 1228 and March 1229.

Feb 25, 202124 minEp. 15

S1E14 – Pavel Florenksy, "Reversed Perspective"

Federico Campagna presents Russian theologian (and mathematician, engineer and philosopher) Pavel Florensky’s 1920 essay “Reversed Perspective” and his interpretation of the language of sacred forms. Image credits: Andrey Rublev, The Trinity or The Hospitality of Abraham , 1411-1427.

Feb 18, 202127 minEp. 14

S1E12 – Russel Hoban, "Riddley Walker"

Federico Campagna presents Russel Hoban’s 1980 science-fiction masterpiece “Riddley Walker” and the problem of post-future life and culture. Image credits: Punch with the Judge and the Hangman , 1870. Litograph.

Feb 04, 202118 minEp. 12

S1E11 – Tom Cheetham on Henry Corbin and James Hillman

American philosopher Tom Cheetham discusses the parallels between Henry Corbin and Jungian psychoanalyst James Hillman, looking in particular at the practice of “Creative Imagination”. Image credits: Elijah and Khidr praying together, XI century. Illuminated manuscript version of Stories of the Prophets .

Jan 28, 202126 minEp. 11

S1E10 – Henry Corbin, "History of Islamic Philosophy"

Federico Campagna presents Henry Corbin’s 1964 “History of Islamic Philosophy” and his esoteric interpretation of philosophy and of religion. Image credits: Sultan Mohammed, The Miraj of the Prophet , 1539-1543. Opaque watercolor and ink on paper.

Jan 28, 202126 minEp. 10

S1E9 – Bill Sherman on Frances Yates and Aby Warburg

Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, discusses the work of Frances Yates and Aby Warburg’s library. Image credits: Aby Warburg, Der Bilderatlas Mnemosyne , 2020. Exhibition view. Courtesy of Silke Briel / HKW

Jan 14, 202127 minEp. 9

S1E8 – Frances Yates, "The Art of Memory"

Federico Campagna looks at Frances Yates’ work on the philosophy of mnemotechnics in her 1966 book “The Art of Memory”. Image Credits: Giulio Camillo, Memory Theatre , 1510.

Jan 08, 202122 minEp. 8

S1E6 – Stefano Gualeni, "Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools"

Federico Campagna looks at Stefano Gualeni’s books “Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools” (2015) and “Virtual Existentialism” (2020) and at the cosmogonic function of play. Image credits: The Royal Game of Ur, 2600BC-2400BC. Wood game-board. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Dec 10, 202023 minEp. 6
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