[CM-A Bookshelf] Theodossis Issaias: Infect — Lick/Leak — Cultivate — Decolonize — Traverse — Rebel — Cruise — Remember — Shelter — Love
Theodossis Issaias: Co-Editor of CM-A's in otherwards Imprint's Inaugural Publication, after school
Join Theodossis (Theo) Issaias in conversation with Tuliza Sindi for the first CM-A Bookshelf session. Theo will introduct some chosen readings and the relationships he has to them, then will introduce his co-edited book, after school, published by CM-A's in otherwards Imprint and in partnership with the Carnegie Museum of Art. With Tuliza, they'll discuss the role of publishing in schools of architecture, and what visions become possible.
Reading List:
- Daisy Lafarge's Lovebug
- Malcolm Ferdinand's Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (translated by Anthony Paul Smith)
- Heather Davis's Plastic Matter
- Samuel R. Delaney's Time Square Red, Times Square Blue
- Justin Torres's Blackouts
- James C. Scott's Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
- Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
- Keller Easterling's Subtraction. Critical Spatial Practice 7
- Felicity D. Scott's Disorientation
- Eyal Weizman's The Roundabout Revolutions
- Andrew Herscher's Displacements: Architecture and Refugee
- Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi's Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
- Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (with illustrations by Ned Asta)
CM-A Bookshelf is a new event series inviting Carnegie Mellon Architecture faculty to share the readings that shape their worlds. Each session offers a glimpse into their relationship with reading; understood broadly, from books and essays to folklore, films, songs or family archives. In conversation with a guest of their choice, they reflect on the texts that linger, unravel their imagination, anchor their sense of belonging, or spark their practice. From nursery rhymes to government documents, philosophy to fantasy, each Bookshelf becomes a portrait of reading as a living, evolving practice.