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Stage of Recovery

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Stage of RecoveryGeorgia Sagri

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Stage of Recovery

Georgia Sagri

I am convinced that Sagri’s thinking in action is ultimately dedicated to the empowerment of the mass corporeality of the nameless, and to self-recovery from psychosomatic pains suffered in this world of hell.

Sabu Kohso

Close to spiritual anarchism, Georgia Sagri’s writing happens in the heat of negotiation. Starting in the months leading up to the occupation of Zuccotti Park in 2011, which became the movement for people’s self-governance known as Occupy, this book carries the energy and commitment of open struggle, direct address, self-organisation and public assembly. It is a critique of representation and its implicit oblivion, told through a decade of artistic and activist practice. The writing is a mode of recovery, it is pre-content shared to encourage open processes in art, thinking and action.

  • 978-1-9164250-7-1
  • 21.6 x 13.9 cm
  • 160 pp.
  • Paperback
  • 06 May 2021

About the author

Georgia Sagri (born Athens, 1979) lives and works in Athens and New York. Her practice is influenced by her ongoing engagement in political movements and struggles on issues of autonomy, empowerment and self-organisation. From 1997 to 2001 she was a member of Void Network, a cultural, political and philosophical collective operating in Athens. In 2011 she was one of the main organisers of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. Since 2013 she has been a member of the assembly of the Embros Theatre Occupation, and in 2014 she initiated Ύλη[matter]HYLE, a semi-public cultural space in the heart of Athens. She is professor of performance at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Photo: Ioanna Chatziandreou

Endorsements (4)

Insightful, passionate, flowing and jarring. Stage of Recovery is a creative journey that invites the reader to reflect on and reimagine society.

Marina Sitrin

This book proposes a singular bio-aesthetic, an original way of living with each other, against the ever more delirious diktats of planetary techno-capitalism. Sagri’s is an extraordinary example of a practice where, as with the Situationists, art becomes indiscernible from politics.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

Stage of Recovery observes a decade of revolutionary animism. There is no score of absolute ethics, the subject is made in anarchy. Her presence pulses in sustained relation.

Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro

Sagri captures affects of anti-capitalist resistance invisible within much political writing. When she writes she uses the whole wall (and climbs over it), reminds us of our powerful, vulnerable bodies, and does not shy away from paradox. Her highly personal practice (‘Don’t call it politics’) at Ύλη[matter]HYLE once offered important clarity in my own life – may her book reach all those who cannot stand on the balcony.

Erica Lagalisse

Press (7)

Breathing and Breaking. Georgia Sagri’s IASIMarina VishmidtAfterall10/2022
Georgia Sagri: Anarchia spiritualGiulia CrispianiFlash Art28/02/2022
Ignota Books of the Year 2021: Part IIMark von SchlegellIgnota02/12/2021
Book ReviewsCalla HenkelMousse, 7705/10/2021
Georgia Sagri: Stage of RecoveryKiera BlakeyArt Monthly, Issue 448, Jul-Aug 2021
Something Like #33 – A Sixth Sense, An Electric TouchBitsy KnoxCashmere Radio10/06/2021
Feeling through the OtherNERO Editions14/05/2021

Twenty Shadows

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Twenty ShadowsRichard Boothby

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Twenty Shadows

Richard Boothby

This singular book brings together the reflections of one of our greatest living philosophers with a father’s grief.

Todd McGowan

Taking its title from Shakespeare’s Richard II—“Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows”—this book follows personal tragedy into the murky place where memory and interpretation become indistinguishable. What lies at its heart is a meditation on the unknowability of the other.

Charlotte Northall

Richard Boothby is right that no amount of intellect curbs the impulses of real experience, but that doesn’t mean you have to remain in a state of ignorance. Composed from the leftovers of terrible, unassimilable events, this book gives us bracing indications of ways to live on in a diminished aftermath.

Justin Clemens

Twenty Shadows tells of a man’s spiritual change following the suicide of his son after a long addiction. Haunted by this loss and the unknown desire of his only child, thinking and writing with a new emptiness, he finds a form of expression that was previously impossible.

  • 978-1-0684395-3-7
  • 7 b&w illustrations
  • 19.8 x 12.8 cm
  • 212 pp.
  • Paperback
  • October 2026

About the author

Richard Boothby is professor emeritus of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. Boothby’s books include Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan’s Return to Freud (1991), Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan (2001), Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has to Teach Us about Sex and Gender (2006), and Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (2023). He lives in Baltimore.

Press (1)

Mourning Beyond MelancholiaJamieson WebsterTexte zur Kunst29/06/2022

Upcoming (1)

29 November Launch of Richard Boothby's Twenty Shadows with Rohit Goel, Charlotte Northall and Julie Reshe, BICAR