Inktvlekken bewonen de stad

2022

Essay 'Inktvlekken bewonen de stad' ('Ink Blots Inhabit the City'), by poet and art critic Maarten Buser. Buser draws connections between Constant's visions for New Babylon and science fiction films, to reflect on the possibility of making a film adaptation of New Babylon. The essay was printed in the 6th edition of magazine Sintel, which appeared in October of 2022. 

Constant en het canoniseringsproces in het Stedelijk Museum

2015

A research by Mylene Jankoswki on the collection of Constant's work by the museum transcending several directorships. 

(It will) never work

2012

A critique of the Situationists' appropriation of Johan Huizinga's theory of play.

New New Babylon

2011

Essay by McKenzie Wark and Ali Dur for MIT Press Journals, Fall 2011.

Nomadic Urbanities: Constant’s New Babylon and the Contemporary City

2004

Essay by Julie Nichols for Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies (4:2) 2004, pp 29-52

Jacques Tati's Playtime as New Babylon

2001

An essay by Laurent Marie for M Shield and T. Fitzmaurice (eds), Cinema and the City: film and urban societies in a global context, Oxford, Blackwell, 2001, pp. 257-69. In the essay Laurent Marie points out the relevance of Playtime to the 1960's in light of the Situationists writings. He examines Situationist theories on urbanism, with particular reference to New Babylon.

Het menu van de dag

1997

Lecture by Professor Arne van Herk at his acceptance of the post professor Architectural Design, Form and Materialization at the Architecture Faculty at the Technical University Delft on November 26, 1996 published in a booklet by Publikatiebureau Bouwkunde in 1997.
In this lecture he mentions Gerrit van Bakel, Michel Foucault, area Wittenburg in Amsterdam, New Babylon and Constant Nieuwenhuys, Brasília, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Almere Stad, Zuidpunt Hoornse Meer in Groningen, Den Haag stationsplein.