“This thrilling book does more than confirm Peter Wollen’s place as perhaps the most incisive thinker to triangulate cinema, art and politics in the post-1968 period: by collecting lesser-known texts and astutely contextualising them, it reveals Wollen’s daring interdisciplinary expansiveness. With a critical and passionate gaze, Wollen meets his changing times in essays full of historical consciousness and conviction, launching arrows that sail into the darkness of our present with a shock of illumination. If this first book is anything to go by, the next two volumes of these previously uncollected writings can’t come soon enough”
—Erika Balsom, author of The Edges of Cinema
“The single most influential film theorist in the English language.”
—Henry K. Miller, Sight and Sound
“A brilliant mind. Peter wrote on film, art, politics, fashion, on culture generally. To say Peter Wollen was preternaturally and uniquely gifted is not adequate.”
—Lynne Tillman, Artforum
“An intransigently original and politically engaged figure.”
—Edward Said, Nation
“Thirty-six striking essays, across a breathtaking range of subjects and in a dizzying register of moods and tones, at once brilliant and revelatory”
—JOHN AKOMFRAH
“The writings of curator and filmmaker Peter Wollen serve as a historical touchstone and source of theoretical fuel”
—NICOLE BRENEZ
