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Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry

Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry is a collection of writings and images from a performance and film set within a neighborhood laundromat, a microcosm of service work within ...

The Xeno-Monde: Worlds of Strangers

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The Xeno-Monde: Worlds of Strangers emerges as a response and challenge to the history of "being" in philosophy. The discourse of "being" and "being" in a world is an ancient one, to which Martin Heidegger ...

2×6

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2×6 consists of short "stanzories"—stanzas that are also stories, each one relating an encounter between two people. Appearing in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Polish, the stanzories are generated by a similar underlying process, ...

Executive Orders

After the election of Donald Trump in 2016, a group of poets, artists, and activists conceived of a project wherein they could respond to the sudden and seemingly relentless barrage of Trump’s dystopian executive orders ...

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