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the images ground the work in the physicality of the everyday lived experience of the artist

The Department of Speculative Facts connects two seemingly contradictory approaches: Speculation which attempts to think and act beyond existing knowledge and structures

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Steven Shaviro: Extreme Fabulations molly goddard given the robotic-like means ofGoldsmiths Press, 2021, Hardcover, 192 pages, 21 14. 5 cm With this book, Steven Shaviro offers a thought experiment. He discusses a number of science fiction narratives: three novels, one novella, three short stories, and one musical concept album. Shaviro not only analyzes these works in detail but also uses them to ask questions about human, and more generally, biological life: about its stubborn insistence and yet fragility; about the