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Towards an Abyssal Praxis in 5 Moves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2021

Abstract

The equivalency “land is to soil as body is to flesh” is a guide to reflect on the techniques of coloniality in the extraction and violation of matter. From the perception that body and land are invented even as they are stolen, we endeavor to stay on the edge of that paradoxical abyss long enough to foresee modes of radical imagination.

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TDR Continued…
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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