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A Toast to St Martirià

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A Toast to St MartiriàAlbert Serratrans. Matthew Tree

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A Toast to St Martirià

Albert Serra

trans. Matthew Tree

A Toast to St Martirià is an improvised speech given by the cult Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra at the St Martirià fiesta in Banyoles, the town of his birth. Transmitting his subversive attitude and impulsive lust for life, it is a journey through his formative years and early relationships – established in the nightlife of his hometown – that have shaped his particular conception of cinema, art and life. ‘Cinema should be this, making perception of time and space more intense.’

Afterword by Alexander García Düttmann.

  • 978-1-7395161-1-6
  • 21.6 x 13.9 cm
  • 96 pp.
  • Paperback
  • 01 April 2024

About the author

The Catalan artist and filmmaker Albert Serra was born in 1975. His films usually depict European myths and literature. In 2001, he co-founded the production company Andergraun Films. His Honor of the Knights was selected by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the ten best films of 2007. For Story of My Death, Serra was awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 2013. For The Death of Louis XIV, Serra received the Prix Jean Vigo in 2016. Pacifiction was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022.

Photo: Katharina Huber

About the translator

Matthew Tree was born in London in 1958. He taught himself Catalan in 1979 and moved to Catalonia in 1984. Since then he has published nine works of fiction and non-fiction written in Catalan, and five written in English. He writes regular columns for Catalonia Today magazine in English and El Punt Avui newspaper in Catalan. He has translated works by Jordi Puntí, Maria Barbal, Monika Zgustová, Joel Joan, Marta Marín-Dòmine and Albert Serra, among others. Two of his English novels, Just Looking and Almost Everything, will appear in Catalan translation at the start of 2025.

Press (5)

Tertúlies: Propagating ChaosJulia Lloyd GeorgeThe TLS, April 25, 20252525/04/2025
“Life Should Be Filled With Magic”: The Hypnotic Cinema of Albert SerraAlex DenneyAnOther12/07/2024
BooksBen NicholsonSight and Sound, Summer 2024, Vo. 34, Issue 613506/2024
Cult auteur Albert Serra selects five influential filmsBarry PierceHERO15/05/2024
Read an exclusive excerpt from Albert Serra’s exciting new bookA Rabbit's Foot01/05/2024

Bourgeois Coldness

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Bourgeois ColdnessHenrike Kohpeißtrans. Grace Nissan

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Bourgeois Coldness

Henrike Kohpeiß

trans. Grace Nissan

Bourgeois coldness refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois coldness is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of the colonial status quo. It creates an affective shelter in the world, unencroached upon by the immediate consequences of its many catastrophes. It functions like air conditioning – a complex technology which reliably stabilises the climate until those inside consider it natural. Bourgeois spaces – institutional and affective – stay cool and pleasant. But outside it’s burning.

Canonical critical theory by Adorno and Horkheimer enters a dialogue with Black studies through Hartman and Moten.

  • 978-1-7395161-2-3
  • 21.6 x 13.9 cm
  • 280 pp.
  • Paperback
  • September 2025

About the author

Henrike Kohpeiß is a philosopher in Berlin, working on social and political philosophy, critical theory, affect studies, Black studies and feminist philosophy. She regularly publishes work in academic journals and criticism in magazines. She organises and hosts events in Berlin, such as the conversation series ‘Feelings at the end of the world’ at Volksbühne. Bourgeois Coldness is her first book, and was published in German in 2023 by Campus Verlag.

Photo: Inke Johannsen

About the translator

Grace Nissan is the author of The Utopians (Ugly Duckling Presse) and The City Is Lush With / Obstructed Views (DoubleCross Press), as well as the translator of War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets (New Directions) and kochanie, today i bought bread by Uljana Wolf (World Poetry Books). Their translations of Yevgenia Belorusets were presented in the 59th Venice Biennale, as well as in the accompanying publication In the Face Of War (Isolarii). They are the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Translation Fellowship to translate the Austrian poet Ann Cotten’s Banned! An Epic Poem into English.

Endorsements (2)

Foregrounding affect, this timely book provides an inestimable philosophical argument for the centrality of Blackness in critical examinations of capitalism’s violence.

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Elegant and erudite in equal measure, this book will stand as a landmark diagnosis of the practices of denial in our time.

Andreas Malm

Press (2)

Eine Kälte, die das Leben gut durchwärmtMartin Hartman Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2711021/11/2023
The Colonial Lives of Bourgeois ColdnessHenrike Kohpeiß and Jonas BensAffect and Colonialism Web Lab21/03/2023

Upcoming (4)

10 November Amsterdam Henrike Kohpeiß launch
06 November London Book launch Bourgeois Coldness, Historical Materialism
04 November London Bourgeois Coldness launch, Housmans Bookshop
02 October Stockholm Henrike Kohpeiß launches Bourgeois Coldness, Nord Books