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Ways of Being Alive
Baptiste Morizot
Translated by Andrew Brown
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Originally published in French as Manières d’être vivant. Afterword by Alain Damasio © Actes Sud, France, 2020
This English edition © Polity Press, 2022
Cover artwork by Julien Thomas Salaud, Stellar Cave 4, Installation made of nails, string and black light for the Hertzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2021
This work received the French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation. French Voices is a program created and funded by the French Embassy in the United States and FACE Foundation.
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