No Archive Will Restore You

At once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, No Archive Will Restore You is a feverish meditation on the body. Departing from Antonio Gramsci's summons to compile an inventory of the historical traces left in each of us, Singh engages with both the impossibility and urgent necessity of c...

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Main Author: Singh, Julietta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Earth, Milky Way : punctum books, 2018.
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