The World Is Sad is a fragmented story of paranoid and reparative reading
Diverse contributions reveal how media and technology can simultaneously enable and constrain agency and control
Gathering together fresh perspectives from 28 leading art and museum figures—including artists
a Bilderatlas of sorts
Digital print on 200gsm uncoated paper
Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic Juergen Teller The World Is Sad isVerso, 2022, Softcover, 261 pages, 23 15 cm Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism trapped in their respective camps, this bold book sounds like a liberating call. There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once; a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something