Sonic Imaginaries of New Babylon!

2021

The essay Sonic Imaginaries of New Babylon! Soundtrack for an Unbuilt City by Steve Taylor for the UK based platform MUSICITY analyses the sonic landscape of Constant's New Babylon.

Gedachten aan Constant

2018

Thoughts of Constant by Ronald Tolman, colleague and friend.

The Utopian Failure of Constant’s New Babylon

2017

Essay on Constant’s New Babylon by Darren Jorgesen and Laetitia Wilson for Invisible Culture, 2017.

Economies of the Wild: Speculations on Constant’s New Babylon and Contemporary Capitalism

2017

An essay by Bram Ieven for the publication Speculative Art Histories by Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

NB: Published here is the unedited version.

Economies of the Wild: Speculations on Constant’s New Babylon and Contemporary Capitalism

2017

An essay by Bram Ieven for the publication Speculative Art Histories by Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

NB: Published here is the unedited version.

Hoe creativiteit een talent van iedereen en een oplossing voor alles werd

2015

Essay by Lynn Berger for de Correspondent about the commercialisation of creativity and Constant's New Babylon
February 16, 2015

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. 

Van speeltuin tot werk­plaats–Het raadsel van de creatieve stad

2013

An argument on the history of creative city planning and the fact that it goes back to New Babylon which contradicts the idea that it would be hype.

To control and shape the entire social arena-Constant Nieuwenhuys

2012

An essay on utopian praxis, Débord, Constant and others.

(It will) never work

2012

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

New Babylon

2012

About the new paradigms of the 21st century. Comparing this world with Constant Nieuwenhuys's utopian city New Babylon.

New New Babylon

2011

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

Constant Nieuwenhuys, New Babylon

2011

ADIP-Rethinking Berlin//Architectural utopias

The Game of War: Debord as Strategist

2008

Essay by McKenzie Wark for Cabinet. 

Aproximación a la Nueva Babilonia de Constant

2005

Essay on New Babylon bij María Fuentes Carrasco.

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.