# The Radical Unpresent

The Radical Unpresent at Printed Matter, Inc., Thursday 5 November 2026, 18:00.

- Venue: Printed Matter, Inc., West 11th Street 231
- Get tickets: http://www.printedmatter.org/services/submit-your-book
- Go to page: http://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2291

![The Radical Unpresent](https://noky.io/images/7a3977df7f7039555c697541f88f912ddf6e822803cc0839507acc201bfe0272-1200.webp)

This is the New York launch of the book The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World (MIT Press), taking the form of a conversation between its author, Gregory Sholette, and the artist and writer Naeem Mohaiemen. Sholette's book examines how artists navigate a collapse of historical time, tracing a rupture through Brexit, Trump, COVID, and the J6 Capitol attack, and arguing that MAGA acts as a "retro-vanguard" manufacturing its own imaginary past. Against this, he proposes the "phantom archive," in which artists resist through repair and reenactment, from Belarus protest art to Michael Rakowitz's reconstruction of a destroyed Assyrian artifact. Mohaiemen, whose work on excavating institutional memory is featured in the book, joins for an evening on memory, resistance, and what remains unfinished.

## Dates

- Thursday 5 November 18:00 — Printed Matter, Inc.

Written by a model, sources: [printedmatter.org](http://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2291)

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