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Ontohackers: Radical Movement Philosophy in the Age of Extinctions and Algorithms, Part II: R/evolution Technologies

Ontohackers redefines what movement, worlds, and bodies are through the sense of proprioception reconceptualized as formless fluctuation field, a movement matrix that is itself also thought, and which underlies all life forms and fields, including ...

Queer Finitude

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What if intimacy wasn't defined by identities, couples, or other congruencies, but by incongruity and the seemingly empty moments of anonymity and solitude? In this compelling final volume of his trilogy on “the intimacy of ...

Executive Orders

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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 ...

Malleus Daemonum: The Hammer of Demons

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The Malleus Daemonum provides an exciting introduction into the religious world of early modern Italy. It consists of a series of personal exorcisms which the Italian Observant Franciscan Alessandro Albertino composed and which he claims ...

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