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Falling

James O'Leary author Kristen Kreider author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Copy Press

Published:29th Jan '15

Should be back in stock very soon

Falling cover

This book begins in zero gravity and ends with everything flowers. In between, figures are falling as we hear something about philosophy, laughter, architecture and war. With writing and drawing coursing through its pages, Falling gathers momentum and, through this, a picture emerges: it looks something like today.

'Falling is a work of natural philosophy, about wire-walkers and moonwalkers, elevators, angels, slapstick, skyscrapers, swerves, and the dynamic figure that links them. Here Kreider + O'Leary describe 'the beautiful mess we're in' with a speculative precision. Their description of falling, in its uncoupling of the tyranny of cause and effect, displaces the now-prevalent despondency of end-thinking with a prolific joyousness.' Lisa Robertson

ISBN: 9781909570016

Dimensions: 195mm x 130mm x 10mm

Weight: unknown

96 pages