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.
Read Blake's essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
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Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Read Blake's essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/VvnXfyp
Blake Smith is a historian and translator who lives in Chicago. He writes regularly for Tablet, American Affairs, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Foreign Policy. With Domenic Desocio, he is writing a book on Michael Denneny and gay culture and politics in the 1970s-80s.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Blake Smith is a historian and translator who lives in Chicago. He writes regularly for Tablet, American Affairs, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Foreign Policy. With Domenic Desocio, he is writing a book on Michael Denneny and gay culture and politics in the 1970s-80s.
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 considers the cultural and political aspects of gay life after homosexuality as it battles with queerness and the allure of a reactionary return, pharmacologically fuelled sexual degeneration, and existential dread. Has the gay man — homosexual, queer, inverted — rendered himself obsolete?
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Inversion considers the cultural and political aspects of gay life after homosexuality as it battles with queerness and the allure of a reactionary return, pharmacologically fuelled sexual degeneration, and existential dread. Has the gay man — homosexual, queer, inverted — rendered himself obsolete?
Bold and daring, the essays in Inversion reflect on the vicious cycle of debasement, acceptance, sacrifice, and liberation that homosexuality has been stuck in for longer than it wishes to acknowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Bold and daring, the essays in Inversion reflect on the vicious cycle of debasement, acceptance, sacrifice, and liberation that homosexuality has been stuck in for longer than it wishes to acknowledge.
It was, until recently, deviant to promote gay lifestyles. Now, it's 'problematic' to note that not all departures from the norm are in the homosexual's best interest. In the world of coercive affirmation, a new wave of discontent rises among the once-keenest proponents of sexual progress: gay men.
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It was, until recently, deviant to promote gay lifestyles. Now, it's 'problematic' to note that not all departures from the norm are in the homosexual's best interest. In the world of coercive affirmation, a new wave of discontent rises among the once-keenest proponents of sexual progress: gay men.
If you’re a faggot who is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, this is the book for you! — Bruce LaBruce
These provocative heresies will make you think — and may also make you furious — Peter Tatchell
These provocative heresies will make you think — and may also make you furious — Peter Tatchell
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If you’re a faggot who is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, this is the book for you! — Bruce LaBruce
These provocative heresies will make you think — and may also make you furious — Peter Tatchell
These provocative heresies will make you think — and may also make you furious — Peter Tatchell
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.
Find their writing in our store - buff.ly/IcgXlr6
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Find their writing in our store - buff.ly/IcgXlr6
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.
Find their writing in our store - buff.ly/IcgXlr6
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Find their writing in our store - buff.ly/IcgXlr6
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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To name the frustration of this oeuvre is thus to make an embarrassing admission. Wool’s 2D projections are too many. They thus reveal that their topographic trajectory is wholly predetermined. In three dimensions, the sculptural jumbles are too solid as they pass
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
To name the frustration of this oeuvre is thus to make an embarrassing admission. Wool’s 2D projections are too many. They thus reveal that their topographic trajectory is wholly predetermined. In three dimensions, the sculptural jumbles are too solid as they pass
These trajectories resemble Brownian molecular motion, as unpredictable as they are vital. Wool’s gestural compositions intrigue with their promise of inevitability, despite, alas, lacking pictorial originality qua works of art.
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
These trajectories resemble Brownian molecular motion, as unpredictable as they are vital. Wool’s gestural compositions intrigue with their promise of inevitability, despite, alas, lacking pictorial originality qua works of art.
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.
His first collection of fiction, The Nightmare Exhibition, was published in 2001, followed by Morbid Tales in 2004. His novella Shrike was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award in 2009.
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
His first collection of fiction, The Nightmare Exhibition, was published in 2001, followed by Morbid Tales in 2004. His novella Shrike was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award in 2009.
Quentin was born in the seventies in North Devon. He studied Japanese at Durham University and the works of Higuchi Ichiyô at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Letters. In the late 2010s, he studied philosophy at Birkbeck College. He is the author of multiple novels and short stories.
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Quentin was born in the seventies in North Devon. He studied Japanese at Durham University and the works of Higuchi Ichiyô at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Letters. In the late 2010s, he studied philosophy at Birkbeck College. He is the author of multiple novels and short stories.