Asclepias: The Milkweeds

by Nathanaël

The talks gathered in Asclepias: The Milkweeds are all concerned with discrepancy and extinction. Polylingual and transdisciplinary, each essay addresses translation as a form of disagreement and photography as its mis-fitting corollary. Calling up an indiscriminate range of thinkers and artists--philosophers, composers, photographers, filmmakers, poets--including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Dmitri Shostakovich, Galina Ustvolskaya, Sergio...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937658392
• ISBN13: 9781937658397
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.5" x 7.0"