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Garbled Evidence
Each page of the Radio Strainer book is a kind of surface of emergence, providing a material capture of tasks.
They elicit made-up languages and foreign speeches
They take seriously the process of translating nonsense-text into English for each other They attend to what was understood, what was lost
They look into generative processes of mangling
They take time to consider the embodied affect of garbled mis-perception
“I smell the inches of your spine – skull – fingers and know it is you the way you see through glass skin bone is how I recognize your name
To peel back the back of you Blood fluid tissue To hear your gravity And to notice my own (Radio Strainer, p. 101)
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