Cream Psychosis by Mary Walling Blackburn - ISBN: 9781915609045
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Empire’s end is insanity’s beginning.

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    336 pages

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    24 February 2026

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Summary

When an empire is lurching to a halt at its very end, it might be the moment when it begins, or is forced, to re-imagine its relationship to a national insanity.

The lumpen and the miscreant walk a long, long way together into a bar. That bar is a landmass, is an empire, is an institution, is a painter, is insistent laughter through death. Deep gallows (sometimes humor) built for survival. The lumpen are kin to that famous glom of the proletariat. The miscreant treads earth in overlap…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781915609045
ISBN-10:1915609046
Author:Mary Walling Blackburn
Publisher:Sternberg Press
Imprint:Sternberg Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:24 February 2026
Weight:312g
Dimensions:178mm x 108mm x 27mm
Series:Sternberg Press / e-flux journal
About The Author

Mary Walling Blackburn

Mary Walling Blackburn was born in Orange, California. Artist and writer Walling Blackburn’s work engages a wide spectrum of materials that probe and intensify the historic, ecological, and class-born brutalities of North American life. She is the author of Quaestiones Perversas (2017) co-written with Beatriz E. Balanta.

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