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Book Launch: Unreality and Its Discontents by the Critical Art Ensemble

Book Launch: Unreality and Its Discontents by the Critical Art Ensemble

When

September 25, 2025    
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Event Type

Critical Art Ensemble and Finnish Art Society invite you to a book launch event. Fresh from the press (New York, Autonomedia), Unreality and Its Discontents: The Struggle Against Christian Nationalism, presented by Steven Kurtz and Steven Barnes of the Critical Art Ensemble.

“In Unreality and Its Discontents, the ever-prophetic Critical Art Ensemble confronts the rise of Christian nationalism and other forms of “pathological unreality” as a political and metaphysical crisis threatening to pull the world into a horrific and totalitarian delusion. Fiercely committed to intellectual and spiritual freedom, CAE calls for new alliances between skeptics, artists, scientists, and the spiritually curious to defend pluralism, mystery, and inner experience against the certitudes of authoritarian dogma. A rallying cry for those unwilling to surrender reality — and unreality —to tyranny and evil.”
Trevor Paglen, MacArthur Fellow

“I wish this book was not so much needed, but unfortunately it is, and it is the best thing I’ve read on the current situation. A call to cosmological action!”
Matthew Fuller, Professor, Goldsmiths

Would you like to attend the event in person at Villa Eläintarha?
Please contact tapio@suomentaideyhdistys.fi
to book a seat. Limited capacity.

Myymälä2 and Villa Eläintarha residency are partnering with Critical Art Ensemble and Finnish Art Society to host this event.