Selected WRITING
Essays and reviews
As Long As You Continue to Resist
Review-essay of Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel and Amel’s biography, L’Homme aux sandales de Feu, by Evelyne Brun-Hamdan
n+1 / October 2024
Palestine’s Martyrdom Upends the World of Law
Essay on martyrdom and human rights in Palestine
Protean / January 2024
Separatism from the Real
Critical review essay of Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ Another World
X-tra Magazine / November 2023
Film-strip slices of a mutant brain
Short review-essay on the art and writing of Nicolas Moufarrege (1947-1985)
Spike Art Magazine / March 2023
Exporting the Revolution
In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)
The New Inquiry / February 2023
On Decadence, Obsolescence, and Speculation
(Peer-reviewed academic article with Bahar Noorizadeh)
Forthcoming ontribution in Informatics of Domination anthology
Edited by Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jenny Rhee
Duke University Press / Expected 2024
The Problem of Scale
Contribution in Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition
Edited by Ilan Manouach & Anna Engelhardt
Onassis Publications / March 2022
Present Archaic (On Simone Fattal’s While The Angels Are Naming Us)
Commissioned exhibition catalog essay
Klosterruine Berlin and Bom Dia Books / February 2022
Toxicity, Technocracy, Telos
Essay exploring conditions of environmental toxicity, protest spontaneity, and technocratic thought in the Lebanese waste revolts (2015), the Lebanese uprising (2019), the George Floyd protests (2020), and the Covid-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on Walter Benjamin’s critique of technocracy, refracted through his work on Charles Fourier and Enrico Ferri
Weird Economies / June 2021
On Sophia Al-Maria’s Beast Type Song
Julia Stoschek Magazine - A FIRE IN MY BELLY issue / February 2021
Betraying the Profession:
Design Labour Against Technocracy
Essay examining current design labor practices, case studies from the history of design during the Cold War, and contemporary theoretical frameworks for thinking design labor beyond technocratic ideals and narrow professional identifications
FailedArchitecture / October 2020
Becoming Ungovernable: Strategies and Modes of Dissent in Lebanon’s Uprising
Dispatch on the October 17th uprising in Beirut, with Edwin Nasr
The Funambulist Magazine - Our Battles Issue / February 2020
No Entropy Cassandra 2020
Essay on the Lebanese waste crisis, Beirut waste revolts, and destituent power
Unbag magazine / November 2019
Dissenting Departed Polity:
Life, Death, and Art in the Extrastate (thesis)
Lebanese American University, School of Architecture and Design / June 2017
The 5m² Maid’s Room:
Lebanon’s Racist, Gendered Architecture
FailedArchitecture, Jadaliyya / November 2016
FICTION
Fetus and Openwound
Catalogue text for Tai Shani’s The World to Me Was a Secret
Strange Attractor and MIT Press / Autumn 2024
Contingent Sentiment
Contribution in Catastrophe Time! Anthology
Edited by Gary Zhexi Zhang
Strange Attractor and MIT Press / September 2023
Congress of Idling Persons
مؤتمر متسكّعون ومتسكّعات
Short fiction text set in Beirut’s pine forest, featuring the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, foot play, and mass unemployment
Translated into Arabic by Safa Hamze, commissioned by Edwin Nasr
The Derivative / Beirut Art Center / October 2020
TRANSLATION
Exiting Law and Entering Revolution by Basel al-Araj
The Bad Side / May 2024
TEACHING
Impersonal Mourning
4-session Writing Workshop
Wendy’s Subway / June 2024
INTERVIEW
Other Worlds
Tai Shani interviewed by Bassem Saad
Art Monthly no. 476 / May 2024