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Fashioning Psychoanalysis

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If every article is a word and every outfit a statement, then the psychoanalyst is never silent. Much is made of clothes and style by psychoanalysis, but little is said of how psychoanalysts style themselves. ...

War Machine

War Machine is a speculative sounding of the myriad entanglements of technology, ecology, discourse, politics, and conflict shaping the contemporary environment. Taking the tools of geopolitical competition and control as its formal and conceptual basis---wargame ...

Zen for Record

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Zen for Record gathers five essays around Ken Friedman’s 1966 Fluxus event score instructing the production of “a phonograph record with no sound on it.” Originating as a found object, the work has migrated across ...

Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many of our most well-known and dependable forms of keeping, managing, and representing time are losing their grasp on the real. Clocks cannot measure how societies speed up, ...

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