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            What Was I Thinking?
            Jalal Toufic

            An open-ended “summa” that takes the arts as if they were the privileged site of thinking, even when they inevitably fail.

            e-flux Books
            Posted: October 18, 2017
            Category
            Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Aesthetics, Film
            Subjects
            Lebanon, Middle East, Death, The Occult & Mysticism
            A Hitherto Unrecognized Apocalyptic Photographer: The Universe
            Jalal Toufic
            “[Paul Gsell:] ‘Well, then, when in the interpretation of movement he [the artist] completely contradicts photography, which is an unimpeachable mechanical testimony, he evidently alters truth.’ ‘No,’ replied Rodin, ‘it is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop, and if the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the…
            e-flux Journal
            Posted: May 1, 2014
            Category
            Philosophy, Photography
            Forthcoming
            Jalal Toufic

            A second edition of the influential Beirut artist and thinker’s timeless text

            e-flux Books
            Posted: April 1, 2014
            Category
            Film, Photography
            Subjects
            Middle East, Lebanon, Publishing, Video Art, Accidents & Disasters, Postcolonial Theory
            If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? No
            Jalal Toufic
            Dedicated to the living memory of Gilles Deleuze, a non-revengeful philosopher Have we not eyes ? No: “He [a Japanese man]: ‘You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.’ She [a French woman visiting the city]: ‘I saw everything . Everything .… The hospital, for instance, I saw it. I’m sure I did.…’ ‘You did not see the hospital in Hiroshima. You saw nothing in Hiroshima.’ … ‘Four times at the museum in Hiroshima.… I … looked thoughtfully at the iron … made vulnerable as flesh ……
            e-flux Journal
            Posted: December 1, 2013
            Category
            Literature, Philosophy
            Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee—in Less than 1/24 of a Second
            Jalal Toufic
            Did the descent of the standard film camera lenses from Renaissance Western monocular perspective place early Muslim filmmakers at a disadvantage when it came to a genuine formal contribution in the medium of cinema, since these filmmakers came from a tradition that until only a century or so ago (the age of cinema) was, especially in its Arabic regions, still resistant to, rather than ignorant of, Renaissance perspective? Cinema would appear to disadvantage Muslim filmmakers steeped in…
            e-flux Journal
            Posted: October 1, 2013
            Category
            Film
            Subjects
            Islam, Temporality, Abstraction
            The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Resurrected God!
            Jalal Toufic
            “Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him,…
            e-flux Journal
            Posted: November 1, 2012
            Category
            Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
            Subjects
            Christianity
            The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Lived then Died!
            Jalal Toufic
            To be fully alive and then die physically, a state most people mistakenly view as being ours in general, a given, is actually an exceptional state. What would it take to achieve what we assume our condition to be? It would take no less than being resurrected by the Christ, “the life” (John 11:25). Yes, to be fully alive and then die physically is not the condition of all humans, but is rather the exceptional condition of the New Testament’s brother of Mary and Martha, the one who was…
            e-flux Journal
            Posted: December 1, 2011
            Category
            Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality
            Subjects
            Death, Christianity
            The Contemporary Is Still Forthcoming
            Jalal Toufic
            Contemporary art? As far as I am largely un concerned, none of what is termed contemporary art, including what is exhibited and screened in various “museums of contemporary art,” for example the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (MCA) or the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA), is contemporary 1 and most of it is not art! There can be no museum of contemporary art since while now we can have museums but not contemporaneity, with the coming of the messiah we are going to…
            e-flux Journal
            Posted: October 1, 2011
            Category
            Philosophy, Contemporary Art, Museums
            Subjects
            Contemporaneity
            What is the Sum of Recurrently?
            Jalal Toufic
            What Is the Sum of a Night of Jouissance and a Night of Desire? In A Thousand and One Nights , missing his younger brother, King Shâh Zamân, King Shahrayâr invites him to visit him. While on the point of heading to his brother from his camp on the outskirts of his capital, King Shâh Zamân remembers something he had forgotten in his palace. He heads back and discovers that his wife is betraying him with a slave. He slaughters her and her partner. Then he heads to his brother. The…
            e-flux Journal
            Posted: October 1, 2010
            Category
            Philosophy, Painting, Religion & Spirituality
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