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Verdurin, 2 Clunbury Street, London (2026)

21/08/2026

New course: Psychoanalysis for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
With Helen Rollins

📅 21 September - 2 November, 7-9pm
🙋 Four fortnightly sessions, in person at Verdurin
🎟️ £100/concessions
🔗 https://verdur.in/course/psychoanalysis/

The technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution do not simply respond to our desires, but rather cultivate and exploit them, drawing us ever deeper into opaque control systems.

How can we make sense of our changing self as the boundaries between the physical and the social, the public and the private blur?

Psychoanalysis is a philosophy of subjectivity, a tool that can elucidate the structure of our consciousness and the vicissitudes of its entanglement with our economic and technological reality.

This four-part course examines the subjective, political, economic, and technological transformations as inseparable from one another. It interrogates the evolving nature of institutions, corporations, desire, authority, repression, and the social bond.

20/08/2026

Quentin S. Crisp's "The Hermitage", coming 1 December.
Pre-order now: https://verdur.in/publication/the-hermitage/

19/08/2026

Liam Blackford will be reading from his forthcoming novel The Stud at this Ausnaissance launch party in Melbourne.

(Pre-order the book: https://verdur.in/publication/the-stud/)

19/08/2026

Coming up at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House
with Dominic Green

📅 1 September, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/gabriel-over-the-white-house-nitrate-film/

The 1933 Hollywood film Gabriel Over the White House was released just as Adolf Hilter, promising to be the strongman who’d restore Germany’s battered economy and culture, was appointed Chancellor. This may have been a coincidence, yet history cast Gregory La Cava’s political drama, which follows the conversion of an uncaring, party-line president into a man of the people, differently.

Political hack Jude Hammond, elected to the highest office in Depression-era turmoil, is emblematic of a turgid glad-handing bureaucracy that all but ignores the desperation of the citizenry. After he miraculously survives a car crash, Hammond experiences an epiphany — one portrayed in the film as a mix of divine Christian intervention and spiritual possession by a venerated figure such as Lincoln.

Gabriel Over the White House is exemplary of a pre-WW2 liberal fascination with fascism, its plot oddly incongruent with the liberal American doctrine as we understand it today. The film is an artefact of a time whern even centre-left populist ideology fantasised of violence — in contrast to, or similarity with, its successors today.

Dominic Green is a historian, columnist, and critic. He is a contributor to numerous periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, a columnist and essayist for the Washington Examiner, and the Jewish Chronicle. He was previously editor-in-chief of the U.S. edition of The Spectator.

Nitrate Film is a series of screenings selected by the film programmer Kit Ramsay, accompanied by discussions led by friends of Verdurin. The events animate live, public critique, bringing attention to filmic artefacts deserving perdurance.

18/08/2026

New course: Psychoanalysis for the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Helen Rollins

📅 21 September - 2 November, 7-9pm
🙋 Four fortnightly sessions, in person at Verdurin
🎟️ £100/concessions
🔗 https://verdur.in/course/psychoanalysis/

The technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution do not simply respond to our desires, but rather cultivate and exploit them, drawing us ever deeper into opaque control systems.

How can we make sense of our changing self as the boundaries between the physical and the social, the public and the private blur?

Psychoanalysis is a philosophy of subjectivity, a tool that can elucidate the structure of our consciousness and the vicissitudes of its entanglement with our economic and technological reality.

This four-part course examines the subjective, political, economic, and technological transformations as inseparable from one another. It interrogates the evolving nature of institutions, corporations, desire, authority, repression, and the social bond.

17/08/2026

Liam Blackford's THE STUD now has a cover!
You can be the first to read the novel when it's out on 18 November.

Pre-order now: https://verdur.in/publication/the-stud/

17/08/2026

Coming up at Verdurin: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House
with Dominic Green

📅 1 September, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/gabriel-over-the-white-house-nitrate-film/

The 1933 Hollywood film Gabriel Over the White House was released just as Adolf Hilter, promising to be the strongman who’d restore Germany’s battered economy and culture, was appointed Chancellor. This may have been a coincidence, yet history cast Gregory La Cava’s political drama, which follows the conversion of an uncaring, party-line president into a man of the people, differently.

Political hack Jude Hammond, elected to the highest office in Depression-era turmoil, is emblematic of a turgid glad-handing bureaucracy that all but ignores the desperation of the citizenry. After he miraculously survives a car crash, Hammond experiences an epiphany — one portrayed in the film as a mix of divine Christian intervention and spiritual possession by a venerated figure such as Lincoln.

Gabriel Over the White House is exemplary of a pre-WW2 liberal fascination with fascism, its plot oddly incongruent with the liberal American doctrine as we understand it today. The film is an artefact of a time whern even centre-left populist ideology fantasised of violence — in contrast to, or similarity with, its successors today.

Dominic Green is a historian, columnist, and critic. He is a contributor to numerous periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, a columnist and essayist for the Washington Examiner, and the Jewish Chronicle. He was previously editor-in-chief of the U.S. edition of The Spectator.

Nitrate Film is a series of screenings selected by the film programmer Kit Ramsay, accompanied by discussions led by friends of Verdurin. The events animate live, public critique, bringing attention to filmic artefacts deserving perdurance.

15/08/2026

Just announced: Nitrate Film: Gabriel Over the White House
with Dominic Green

📅 1 September, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/gabriel-over-the-white-house-nitrate-film/

The 1933 Hollywood film Gabriel Over the White House was released just as Adolf Hilter, promising to be the strongman who’d restore Germany’s battered economy and culture, was appointed Chancellor. This may have been a coincidence, yet history cast Gregory La Cava’s political drama, which follows the conversion of an uncaring, party-line president into a man of the people, differently.

Political hack Jude Hammond, elected to the highest office in Depression-era turmoil, is emblematic of a turgid glad-handing bureaucracy that all but ignores the desperation of the citizenry. After he miraculously survives a car crash, Hammond experiences an epiphany — one portrayed in the film as a mix of divine Christian intervention and spiritual possession by a venerated figure such as Lincoln.

Gabriel Over the White House is exemplary of a pre-WW2 liberal fascination with fascism, its plot oddly incongruent with the liberal American doctrine as we understand it today. The film is an artefact of a time whern even centre-left populist ideology fantasised of violence — in contrast to, or similarity with, its successors today.

Dominic Green is a historian, columnist, and critic. He is a contributor to numerous periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, a columnist and essayist for the Washington Examiner, and the Jewish Chronicle. He was previously editor-in-chief of the U.S. edition of The Spectator.

Nitrate Film is a series of screenings selected by the film programmer Kit Ramsay, accompanied by discussions led by friends of Verdurin. The events animate live, public critique, bringing attention to filmic artefacts deserving perdurance.

14/08/2026

📖 BOOK COVER REVEAL!

THE STUD by Liam Blackford

📅 Out 18 November 2026

🛒 PRE-ORDER NOW
🔗 https://verdur.in/publication/the-stud/

In a breakaway hyperliberal Republic of Western Australia confronting a catastrophic birthrate collapse, the state turns reproduction into policy. Martina, a high-powered Perth lawyer, joins a household with three other driven women to employ one man, Luke, to father their children. At first, it works. Then it doesn't.

The Stud is an ice-cold work of post-transgressive fiction that combines the clinical banalities of Bret Easton Ellis with the philosophical anti-platitudes of Michel Houellebecq, probing the societal death throes of our present-future age of anxiety and uncertainty.

💫 PRAISE FOR THE STUD
Hilarious, brilliant, and chilling — there’s something here to offend everyone — Chris Kraus

Yes, yes, buy this book! If I were not 77 and ill, I would gladly offer myself as a stud — if accepted by the women — Slavoj Žižek

13/08/2026

Just announced: The Instant of My Death
A symposium with Douglas Davies, Maya Pettersen, Jacob Phillips, David Roden, organised with Rose Lyddon.

📅 3 October, 2-6pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/the-instant-of-my-death/

Contemporary attitudes to death range from denying its inevitability to expediting the end of life as one rational option among many. That these approaches coexist suggests that the conscious mind today cannot comprehend the thing itself.

Yet death refuses to go gently and reasserts itself in our self-annihilatory unconscious pursuits. Even as a black hole, the instant of death is solar, hovering on the threshold of ecstasy.

What can standing at the threshold of death tell us about living? What will the human look like when death itself has been destroyed? How does self-destruction reveal death’s supernatural potential? And how can we speak about death at all when our lives are ordinarily distant from its reality?

The symposium brings together multiple contemplative traditions, ranging from Vedic myth to accelerationism and from posthumanism to Christian eschatology. Between them, they grant the unthinkable instant of death a before and after.

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