Liquid Life : On Non-Linear Materiality

If we lived in a liquid world, the concept of a'machine'would make no sense. Liquid life is metaphor and apparatus that discusses the consequences of thinking, working, and living through liquids. It is an irreducible, paradoxical, parallel, planetary-scale material condition, unevenly distributed s...

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Autores principales: Rachel Armstrong, Simone Ferracina, Rolf Hughes
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Publicado: CTM Documents Initiative 2019
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