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by Raymond de Borja (Author), Paolo Javier (Foreword by)
the dust of a contact that is everywhere moves between theoretical reflection and aesthetic practice through essays, fragments, daybook entries, and lyrical experiments. It explores attention, the temporality of lyric lines, and the ethical implications of how we read, write, and live beside others. Collage and drift function as both method and ethic; friendship becomes a form of nonhierarchical inquiry. Drawing on artists and thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Toru Takemitsu, the book is a capacious and intimate work of reading understood as a form of radical attentiveness.
Author Biography
Raymond de Borja (Author)
Raymond de Borja is the author of the dust of a contact that is everywhere (Fonograf Editions / Bunny Presse), facture (Broken Sleep Books), as well, in our estrangement (Aklat Ulagad), and they day daze (High Chair). He lives in the Philippines.
Paolo Javier has produced three albums of sound poetry with Listening Center (David Mason), and was a featured artist in PS1 MoMA's Greater NY and Queens International. SWERVE, his collaboration with experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs, debuted at BAM Cinemafest. He is the author of seven books of poetry, and lives with his family in Jackson Heights, Lenapehoking.
