Arrows of Desire: Selected Writings 1963-2002

A new anthology of uncollected writings by Peter Wollen, cultural critic, avant-garde filmmaker and curator of paradigm-shifting exhibitions.

Arrows of Desire indexes numerous intellectual, political, and artistic histories of the twentieth century. The book presents Wollen’s engagement with anti-imperialist politics and counter-cinema, gathering essays, lectures, and proposals that contest the dominant geographies of the avant-garde. At once playful, theoretically rigorous, and historically...