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The Phonemes

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In The Phonemes, Frances Richard investigates perceptually distinct units of experience — sounds, energy surges, scraps of national and natural history — to create episodes of disruption and dissolution. Organized into sequences that move from ...

Imagining What We Don’t Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies

Bringing together perception, ecology, community, lingual value, and quantum life, Imagining What We Don’t Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies presents twenty-four essays and theory poems that blend interpretive neologisms -- wild dialectics, distributed centrality, ...

Corporeal Aesth/ethics: The Body in Bracha L. Ettinger’s Theory and Art

Can we think of an ethics that originates in corporeality, and not in codified or symbolic systems? In Corporeal Aesth/ethics, the body resurfaces as a central category of Bracha L. Ettinger’s theory and art, as ...

Urban Liquefaction: Rethinking the Relationship between Land and Sea

From classical times until today, cities have been conceived in the western imagination as ideally confined to the fixities of the land, a space defined in opposition to the fluxes of the sea. Whereas solid ...

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