# Beyond no.2 Values and Symptoms

Pedro Gadanho (read his boiteaoutils manifesto here) just sent me an email to say that the Beyond no.2 will be released this week. After an excellent Scenarios and Speculations (see former post), the second issue owns a very promising title, Values and Symptoms.

Contributors to Beyond no. 2:
Douglas Coupland, Roemer van Toorn, Sam Jacob, Andrés Jaque, Francois Roche, Triin Ojari, Markus Miessen, Iassen Markov, Ole W. Fischer, Lieven de Cauter, Emiliano Gandolfi, Rui Zink, Nuno Coelho & Adam Kershaw and Marc Schuilenburg.

The book will be launched this Thursday in Rotterdam for the Open City program where the text Feast in A War Zone, A Palestinian Diary will be read by its author, the philosopher and writer Lieven de Cauter.
I recommend this event for a second reason, Eyal Weizman (see numerous former posts) will be also presenting a lecture called Forensic Architecture. I guess it is going to be pretty much the same he gave two months ago for Saskia Sassen's Columbia conference called Cities and the new wars (see former post), and for having be there, I can tell that Weizman's lectures are as interesting as his books.