SPONTANEOUS ACTS OF SCHOLARLY COMBUSTION

Forthcoming Titles

One Thing Follows Another: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life through the Lens of Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer

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In the 1950s, Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, and a handful of other young artists based in New York’s Greenwich Village set out to challenge the practices and principles of professionalized dance. Inspired by the groundbreaking ...

Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance

Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance is an opening, a beginning, an attempt to rethink how we can be, think, and work together. This book, authored by a multitude, explores new methodologies of collaborative ...

Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party, Vol. 1: Coming of Age in the Communist and Labor Movements

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Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party is the first collection of historical analyses and reminiscences by members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Communist youth movement in the US from ...

The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West

The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West interrogates the medieval manuscript book as a dynamic, constantly changing object entangled in intellectual and cultural networks, constructed and deconstructed by different ...

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