Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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How Do We Do Things With Dead People?
The images in this book are startling, from nineteenth century photographs of mary todd lincoln with the spectre of her dead husband presumably hanging over her shoulders. How should a reader use this book as a self aware intermediate artifact itself, or how do we do things with how to do things with dead people? That's a great question, im. I guess my answer is that i don't i don't really want to tell people how to do anything. What i wantthis book to be, is an invitation and an enabling im,. sort of a generative object im to think with and but also to feel with so i guess a more direct answer to your question is to say that,
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