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Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State

When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderless access, and frictionless communication. But should there be more than this ...

Unvoicing Migraine: A Study of the Failing Voice

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These writings spring from an observation: When migraine arises, the voice fails. It does so on many levels, ranging from a vocal-technical disintegration to migraine-specific symptoms like dysarthria and aphasia, up to the muteness forced ...

Jorge Luis Borges: At Play with Mental Models of the World

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Jorge Luis Borges: At Play with Mental Models of the World explores mind–world relations through the creative writings and reflections of the iconic Argentine author, along with insights from corresponding findings in the field of ...

Janky Materiality: Artifice & Interface

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Janky materiality works by not working. It is the spirit in the machine, the ghost in language, the provisional operation. It is a musicological poetics run through a patchwork apparatus. Janky Materiality: Artifice & Interface is ...

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