Book Launch: Work of Angels by Anisha Sankar

Join Unity Books + Dead Bird Books for the launch party of Work of Angels by the excellent Anisha Sankar.

Anisha will be joined by Hana Pera Aoake, Hugo Robinson, Faisal Al-Asaad and Brannavan Gnanalingam reading poems.

As per, all welcome!

About the book:
The Work of Angels is a meditation on sex, the celestial, and the spectre of communism. These appear where history and subject don’t quite meet; here, the lover (a worker, child, philosopher of history, mystic-astronomer) speaks to her other through a language made possible by losses, thefts, and the wars that constitute politics. Desire—the etymology of which is something like of the stars—is inaugurated by these planetary negations, setting into orbit a conspiracy between romance and exploitation, mysticism and violence, prophecy and ordinary inertia.

About the author
Anisha Sankar is a Chennai-born, Te Awakairangi-raised, South Indian Tamil, who studies and writes about the contradictions of colonial capitalism. Her work has been published in Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, Counterfutures: Left Thought and Practice Aotearoa, Overland and The Pantograph Punch. Her master’s thesis, ‘Notes on Fanon’s Dialectics’, an exploration of the dialectical method of Martiniquan revolutionary Frantz Fanon, won the Roger Oppenheim Memorial Prize in Sociology and Criminology in 2018. She is currently pursuing a PhD in social and political thought at York University, in Toronto, Canada.