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The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève presents Overmorrow’s Library, a podcast series by Federico Campagna, available on the 5th floor (digital extension): https://5e.centre.ch/en/ The library for ‘the day after tomorrow’ is dedicated to books and authors whose work explores the limits of the ‘world’ as the frame of sense through which our consciousness experiences the chaos of reality. Each new episode presents a book that engages with the challenge of world-making, with the end-time of a world, or with the eternal unworldly. Spanning mysticism, politics, mythology, philosophy, video-game design and more, the shelves of Overmorrow’s Library are a space for experimenting with the apocalypse, and with the ignition of new cosmogonies. Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher and writer living in London. His latest books are ‘Prophetic Culture: Recreation for Adolescents’ (Bloomsbury, 2021), ‘Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality’ (Bloomsbury, 2018), and ‘The Last Night: Anti-work, Atheism, Adventure’ (Zero Books, 2013). He is a lecturer and tutor at KABK, The Hague, and has presented his work in institutions including the Warburg Institute, the Royal Academy, the 57th and 58th Venice Biennale, Documenta 13, Winzavod Center, Jameel Art Centre, Tate Modern and the Serpentine Gallery. He is the director of rights at the radical publisher Verso Books. Image credit: The Gilgamesh Tablet (Library of Ashurbanipal), 7th c. BCE. The British Museum, London. © The Trustees of the British Museum.

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S2E1 – Pico della Mirandola, ‘Heptaplus’

2022/06/24

The second season of Overmorrow’s Library is dedicated to world-building, world-ending, and travel across worlds. Federico Campagna presents a new selection of books that might help us to appreciate the fragility of ‘worlds’, and the art of creating new ones through a particular use of our imagination.

S1E18 – Francesco Fusaro on musical cosmologies

2021/03/18

Musicologist and producer Francesco Fusaro discusses world-building music across the centuries. Credit: Francesco Fusaro, Tafelmusik Var. I, 2021. Collage, 65x92. Courtesy of the artist.

S1E17 – Arturo Campagna on children's literature

2021/03/11

6-years old Arturo Campagna discusses children’s literature and dispenses advice to writers for children. Image credits: Rain Wu, Arion, 2019. Stoneware clay and glazes, 9x11cm. Courtesy of the artist.

S1E16 – Elemire Zolla, "Children's Awe" and Cristina Campo, "The Flute and the Rug"

2021/03/04

Federico Campagna presents the philosophical take on children’s world-view and culture in Elemire Zolla’s 1994 “Children’s Awe” and Cristina Campo’s 1971 “The Flute and the Rug”. Image credits: Ivan Bilibin, Stage-set design for Scene Two, Act Four of the opera the "Tale of the Lost City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" by Rimsky-Korsakov, 1929.

S1E15 – Fr. Paul Butler on radical theology

2021/02/25

Liberation theologian Father Paul Butler discusses the radical interpretations of the Christian message. Image credits: The oldest surviving depiction of Saint Francis, Benedictine abbey of Subiaco, painted between March 1228 and March 1229.

S1E14 – Pavel Florenksy, "Reversed Perspective"

2021/02/18

Federico Campagna presents Russian theologian (and mathematician, engineer and philosopher) Pavel Florensky’s 1920 essay “Reversed Perspective” and his interpretation of the language of sacred forms. Image credits: Andrey Rublev, The Trinity or The Hospitality of Abraham, 1411-1427.

S1E13 – Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers on otherworldly imagination

2021/02/11

Ignota publishers Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers discuss their ongoing cultural work on the “techniques of awakening”. Image credits: Hildegard von Bingen, God, Cosmos, and Humanity, 1165.

S1E12 – Russel Hoban, "Riddley Walker"

2021/02/04

Federico Campagna presents Russel Hoban’s 1980 science-fiction masterpiece “Riddley Walker” and the problem of post-future life and culture. Image credits: Punch with the Judge and the Hangman, 1870. Litograph.

S1E11 – Tom Cheetham on Henry Corbin and James Hillman

2021/01/28

American philosopher Tom Cheetham discusses the parallels between Henry Corbin and Jungian psychoanalyst James Hillman, looking in particular at the practice of “Creative Imagination”. Image credits: Elijah and Khidr praying together, XI century. Illuminated manuscript version of Stories of the Prophets.

S1E10 – Henry Corbin, "History of Islamic Philosophy"

2021/01/28

Federico Campagna presents Henry Corbin’s 1964 “History of Islamic Philosophy” and his esoteric interpretation of philosophy and of religion. Image credits: Sultan Mohammed, The Miraj of the Prophet, 1539-1543. Opaque watercolor and ink on paper.

S1E9 – Bill Sherman on Frances Yates and Aby Warburg

2021/01/14

Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, discusses the work of Frances Yates and Aby Warburg’s library. Image credits: Aby Warburg, Der Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, 2020. Exhibition view. Courtesy of Silke Briel / HKW

S1E8 – Frances Yates, "The Art of Memory"

2021/01/08

Federico Campagna looks at Frances Yates’ work on the philosophy of mnemotechnics in her 1966 book “The Art of Memory”. Image Credits: Giulio Camillo, Memory Theatre, 1510.