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  • Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World

    The Alchemy Lecture 2023

    by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, Cristina Rivera Garza, Christina Sharpe ...
    Series series The Alchemy Lecture
    Five Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.The second annual Alchemy Lecture was presented in November 2023 at York University to a sold out in-person audience and nearly one thousand live online viewers. Moderated by Dr. Christina Sharpe, the Alchemists—agile thinkers and practitioners working across a range of disciplines and geographies—convened to discuss their radical visions of the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World

    The Alchemy Lecture 2023

    by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, Cristina Rivera Garza, Christina Sharpe ...
    Narrated by Christina Sharpe, Angelique Lazarus ...
    Series series The Alchemy Lecture

    Unabridged

    4 hours 58 min

    Five Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.The second annual Alchemy Lecture was presented in November 2023 at York University to a sold out in-person audience and nearly one thousand live online viewers. Moderated by Dr. Christina Sharpe, the Alchemists—agile thinkers and practitioners working across a range of disciplines and geographies—convened to discuss their radical visions of the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

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