Image credit: Max Stirner in a cartoon by Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

Overmorrow’s Library

S2E11 – Max Stirner, ‘The Ego and Its Own’, Étienne de La Boétie, ‘Discourse on Voluntary Servitude’

Image: The Rock Nobody Could Lft, etching by Rain Wu (2018)

S2E17 – Arturo Campagna on history for children

Image credit: Ceramic figurine from the Moche culture of the north coast of Peru depicting a flute player.

S2E16 – Nicolas Jaar on sound and silence

Image credit: The prophets Elias and Khadir at the fountain of life, late 15th century. Folio from a khamsa (quintet) by Nizami (d. 1209); Timurid period. Opaque watercolor and silver on paper. Herat, Afghanistan.

S2E15 – ‘The Alexander Romance’

Image credit: Womb Realm (garbhakosa-dhatu or taizōkai) mandala. Shingon tantric buddhist school, Heian period (794-1185), Tō-ji, Kyōto, Japan.

S2E14 – Manlio Poltronieri on the Buddhist Dharma and the West

Image credit: 10th century Chola dynasty bronze sculpture of Shiva, the Lord of the Dance.

S2E13 – Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, ‘The Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art’

Image credit: Detail from the frontispiece of Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ by Abraham Bosse,1651

S2E12 – Prof. Saul Newman on political theology

Image credit: Roman coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar, issued in 42 BC

S2E10 – Dr. Francesco Strocchi on life in the late Roman republic

Image credit: Porphyry column decorated with group of two embracing older Tetrarchs. Rome. 293-305.

S2E9 – Rutilius Namatiuanus, ‘On His Return’, and Paulinus of Pella, ‘Thanksgiving’

Image credits: Geometric nest of a pufferfish.

S2E8 – Lucia Pietroiusti on analogical thinking

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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.