Alice LaPlante reads from ‘Turn of Mind’
Weeping Woman, Pablo Picasso, 1937
Alice LaPlante reads a passage from Turn of Mind, her novel about the disintegration of a strong woman’s mind and the unhinging of her family.
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Weeping Woman, Pablo Picasso, 1937
Alice LaPlante reads a passage from Turn of Mind, her novel about the disintegration of a strong woman’s mind and the unhinging of her family.
Via KQED
Both Derrida and Ronell suggest that saying yes is “telephonic,” both in the sense that it resounds over a distance and therefore always is affected by distortion and delay, and that the telephone as technological apparatus not so much adds to these inherent obstructions as it stands model for them.
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