Force Times Distance: On Labour, Reader #1 - Various Artists (Archive Books) MIT Press Léon-Gontran Damas

Léon-Gontran Damas

Other artists choose to keep their domestic and creative lives compartmentalised

Although none of the stores ever opened

“Almadhoun’s poetry offers passion without comfort

climate change and ecological awareness

Force Times Distance: On Labour, Reader #1 - Various Artists (Archive Books) MIT Press Léon-Gontran DamasThis reader is a culmination of direct and tangential deliberations on labour. Notions of labour appreciated across geographies and mediums. Newly commissioned textual manifestations in a multilogue with historical positions. The reader could be perceived as a negotiation of positions, as the strive towards utterances, towards becoming. Each text could be imagined as a stanza in a song. This is also a strive towards musicality. Or at least a wish for