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Now showing — Outline · 5 works

  • Outline Books · 2010s

    Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elde...

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • No Future Essays · 2000s

    "In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism." Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protec...

    ModernityResistanceIdentity
  • Either/Or Books

    1st published work of S. Kierkegaard (pen name Victor Eremita) in 2 volumes in 1843; outlines a theory of human existence, marked by the distinction between a hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life predicated upon commitment

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • English translation of a book by Pierre Bourdieu published in 1977

    RitualMemoryMigration
  • Outline Music · 2000s

    Held here because it strengthens the visible field.

    After-hoursLonging
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