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World of Interiors

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World of InteriorsAurelia Guo

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World of Interiors

Aurelia Guo

In World of Interiors I use collage and appropriation to destabilise the first-person ‘I’. I also write directly about the inescapable condition of being perceived and positioned by other people. Our lives take place in time and space, meaning in history and geography, as well as in relation to one another – not just interpersonally, but intergenerationally, with all the baggage of race, class, gender and nation that this implies. I write about economic cycles of wealth and poverty at the levels of the individual, group and state. The book is about travel and immigration: migrants, tourists and refugees. It is about the work of survival and the cost of survival. It is also a hopeful book – about how strong and indomitable the will can be.

  • 978-1-9164250-5-7
  • 2 b&w illustrations
  • 21.6 x 13.9 cm
  • 138 pp.
  • Paperback
  • 04 April 2022

About the author

Aurelia Guo is a writer and researcher based in London. She is a visiting fellow at London South Bank University.

Photo: Amy Gwatkin

Endorsements (2)

Tracing the borders between essay and poem, quotation and the fragment, Aurelia Guo’s writing circles and contradicts narratives of power. Her close readings of contested histories, abject biographies and her own experiences of migration and displacement transfix and unsettle. This book is mesmerising.

Natasha Soobramanien

An uncategorisable writer … intimate, impersonal, visionary and pitiless.

Sam Riviere

Press (9)

Conversations on community: where we liveAurelia Guo and Amy Ching-Yan LamTANK, 10215802/2025
Thoughts of ElsewhereAmy JonesFlash Art Magazine01/05/2024
BooksClem MacLeodMousse Magazine03/04/2024
Aurelia Guo in conversationJustin Amalimal Cantrell & Nico CallaghanThe Readings Podcast23/06/2023
SPAM Press Presents: Deep Cuts 2022Colin LeemarshallSPAM18/12/2022
Aurelia Guo - World of InteriorsKatie (@greenwinginmymouth)Instagram10/2022
London (Poverty)Charlie MarkbreiterThe New Inquiry, 7607/2022
5 Questions with Aurelia GuoCher TanLiminal17/06/2022
International Women's DayNatasha Soobramanien & Luke WilliamsFitzcarraldo Editions08/03/2022

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