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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.
Documentation
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.
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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.
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.
