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Cambridge studies in the history of psychology

Inventing our selves : psychology, power, and personhood / Nikolas Rose.

No human being is illegal (in all our glory)

1 mixed media work : colour photographic print on aluminum, mixed media collage ; 210 x 109 cm

Ally Garrett from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Julia Featherstone from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Physics of blackness : beyond the middle passage epistemology / Michelle M. Wright.

Trevor Grahame from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Mirek Craney from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Detachment : essays on the limits of relational thinking / edited by Matei Candea, Joanna Cook, Catherine Trundle and Thomas Yarrow.

<p>40598449 is a textile based volume created by artist Alexandra Georgiou whilst living with cancer. It is created from the artist's clothing and resembles a regular pile of clothes. All the items are sewn up and cannot be worn again. Some of the letters received relating to her illness have been interleaved and sewn within the clothing to create the sound of turning a 'real' page. In her words, 'the person who used to wear those clothes is no more. That person is made to feel like a number, a statistic on a conveyer belt of treatment. On top of that is coming to terms with a body that has had part of itself amputated. It is not possible to wear clothes normally again.'</p>
<p>The book is fastened with 2 nylon webbing straps and plastic side release buckles. The number 40598449 is printed onto calico and sewn onto each piece of clothing. Photographic images are printed onto fabric and sewn into the book. The artist records her experiences of cancer and chemotherapy by embroidering her emotions in cotton thread onto the pages.</p>

1 volume : 11 pieces of clothing stitched in book form, letters, photographs ; 43 x 48  x 25 cm

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Inventing our selves : psychology, power, and personhood / Nikolas Rose.

Ally Garrett from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Julia Featherstone from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Physics of blackness : beyond the middle passage epistemology / Michelle M. Wright.

Trevor Grahame from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Mirek Craney from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Detachment : essays on the limits of relational thinking / edited by Matei Candea, Joanna Cook, Catherine Trundle and Thomas Yarrow.

40598449 / Alexandra Georgiou.

"The boy will come to nothing!" : Freud's ego ideal and Freud as ego ideal / Leonard Shengold.

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

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Inventing our selves : psychology, power, and personhood / Nikolas Rose.

Ally Garrett from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Julia Featherstone from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Physics of blackness : beyond the middle passage epistemology / Michelle M. Wright.

Trevor Grahame from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Mirek Craney from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Detachment : essays on the limits of relational thinking / edited by Matei Candea, Joanna Cook, Catherine Trundle and Thomas Yarrow.

40598449 / Alexandra Georgiou.

"The boy will come to nothing!" : Freud's ego ideal and Freud as ego ideal / Leonard Shengold.

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

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