Overmorrow’s Library

Overmorrow’s Library is a podcast series by Federico Campagna (Faculty Berlin ’16), presented by the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève.

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

Episodes include:

  • Episode 1: Overmorrow’s Library – online.
  • ​Episode 2: Franco Berardi Bifo, “The Third Unconscious” – online.
  • ​Episode 3: Franco Berardi Bifo on the contemporary psychosphere – online.
  • Episode 4: Simone Weil, “The Iliad or the Poem of Force” – online.
  • Episode 5: Julia Gale on Simone Weil’s life and mysticism – online.
  • Episode 6: Stefano Gualeni, “Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools” – online.
  • Episode 7: Stefano Gualeni on how to philosophize with a digital hammer – online.
  • Episode 8: Frances Yates, “The Art of Memory” – online.
  • Episode 9: Bill Sherman on Frances Yates and Aby Warburg.
  • Episode 10: Henry Corbin, “History of Islamic Philosophy”.
  • Episode 11: Tom Cheetham on Henry Corbin and James Hillman.
  • Episode 12: Russel Hoban, “Riddley Walker”.
  • Episode 13: Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers on otherworldly imagination.
  • Episode 14: Pavel Florenksy, “Reversed Perspective”.
  • Episode 15: Fr.Paul Butler on radical theology.
  • Episode 16: Elemire Zolla, “Children’s Awe” and Cristina Campo, “On the Fable”.
  • Episode 17: Arturo Campagna on children’s literature.
  • Episode 18: Francesco Fusaro on musical cosmologies.
  • (and more…)

A new episode is released every Thursday.

You can find Overmorrow’s Library on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and via the 5th Floor—the virtual space of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève.

 

Federico Campagna
​Federico Campagna is a philosopher and writer.

He spent over twenty years in Milan, where he was active in the anarchist/autonomist networks and co-founded the street-poetry collective Eveline. In 2007 he moved to London, where he lives. In 2009 he started a long-term collaboration with the Italian Autonomia philosopher Franco Berardi ‘Bifo’. In that same year, he co-founded the (now defunct) multilingual platform for critical theory Through Europe.

Federico’s latest books are Prophetic Culture: recreation for adolescents (Bloomsbury: 2021), Technic and Magic: the reconstruction of reality (Bloomsbury, 2018), and The Last Night (Zero Books, 2013).

Federico holds a BSc and MSc in Economics and Management of the Arts from Bocconi University, Milan, and an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths University, London; he is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, London, with a thesis on Metaphysics and Metaethics in the Design of Strategy Video Games. He works as a visiting lecturer and tutor in the MA NonLinear Narrative at KABK (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten), Den Haag, the Netherlands, and as the director of the rights department at Verso Books.