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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 ...

The Fire Trees

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The Fire Trees studies the sense experience of the body and mind as it relates to wildness and nature—how do we embrace sensualism, pleasure, and joy as a daily practice in the company of our ...

Feminism, Activism, Video: Carole Roussopoulos in the 1970s

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In 1968, following the largest general strike in French history, and the inauguration of a student and worker movement that built on and intersected with anti-colonial and anti-imperialist activism, a revolutionary new tool arrived on ...

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