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Torture concrete : Jean-Luc Moulène and the protocol of abstraction / Reza Negarestani

This essay examines abstraction as a multifaceted project in the domains of thought and artistic experimentation. It analyses the dialectic between mathematical form and sensible matter, situating art-historical notions of abstraction within philosophy and science.

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