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True war & combat stories2021Fugue 119. Tonality of captivity
by Igor Mykhaylyshyn
"Fugue 119" is based on true story of the "Donbas" battalion volunteers who were captured by Russians after the famous battle at the city of Ilovaisk (Donbas). The book describes how it is to be a prisoner of war. It was impossible to write about the events in a traditional writing method and author invented his own. He applied the principle of composing a fugue - a polyphonic piece of music to his writing. The structure of the book is based on a double three-part fugue with a code. This makes it possible to fully convey the plexus of pain and horror - the every day routine of captivity, where the way out is possible only through death. "Fugue 119" is a continuation of the book "Dance of Death" and is the second in the upcoming trilogy "2014". "Fugue 119" was long listed for the "BBC Book of the Year 2021"
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Stone Blossoms
by Luo Changjiang
The full-length reportage "Stone Blossom" closely focuses on the main line of poverty alleviation by tourism, focusing on the spirit of struggle of the people in Wulingyuan to fight poverty and the vivid stories, reflecting the scenes of rearranging mountains and rivers to change their destiny. “Tourism feeds back agriculture and poverty alleviation connects tourism” to continuously influence, impact and refresh the vivid process of people's ideas, behaviors and thinking models. At the same time, the work takes poverty and anti-poverty worldwide as the coordinates, and carries out reflections and discussions on topics such as rural tourism, multidimensional poverty, educating the masses and cadres, human capital, rural revitalization and rural construction, and urban-rural integration. Documentary and speculation go hand in hand, poetry and reason echo each other, forming the basic pattern of the polyphonic concerto of this work. You can hear the concertos of history and reality, the concerts of the countryside and the city, the concerts of glory and dreams, the concert of the terroir culture with the sandstone Dafenglin as the main symbol and the regional cultural character of Wulingyuan people.
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Trusted Partner
2020La rosa en el viento
by Sara Gallardo
"The rose that is destroyed in the wind lets its petals fly in a burned light," says this hallucinatory novel by Sara Gallardo, her latest publication, an extraordinary culmination for a dazzling, always precise, always unique, always captivating body of work. In La rosa en el viento, all the characters move, embarking on journeys that are sometimes physical and sometimes emotional, but in every case, they take them far from whom they were at the beginning. Olaf, a Swedish immigrant who has escaped a terrible episode in Italy, becomes a sheep breeder in Patagonia alongside Andrei, a Russian journalist who, in turn, seeks to win over an unconquerable woman, whose story reaches us in flashes, much like that of Oo, the Indian woman bought by Andrei, or Lina, who follows Andrei south, and Olga, who two generations earlier followed Alexis the revolutionary to an America that, for these characters, is both a land of promises and forgotten dreams that never truly materialize. Kaleidoscopic, polyphonic, synthetic, and modern, La rosa en el viento brings together all of Sara Gallardo's talent for storytelling and emotional impact, and it demands that we read it again.
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September 2020Drei Nächte, drei Tage
by Marie-Claire Blais, Nicola Denis
Eine sonnendurchflutete Insel, irgendwo im Golf von Mexiko. Hier leben Menschen in Reichtum, andere in extremer Armut. Und hier versucht eine Frau namens Renata sich nach einem Eingriff auszukurieren. Doch ihre Unruhe gilt nicht nur ihrer Gesundheit, Renata schwankt zwischen hedonistischen Ausschweifungen und der Verantwortung für andere, zwischen der Schönheit der Welt und ihrer Ungerechtigkeit. Währenddessen finden auf der ganzen Insel Festivitäten statt – man feiert die Geburt eines Kindes und das Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts –, es versammelt sich ein schillerndes Ensemble an Charakteren: Künstler, Drag-Queens, Ku-Klux-Klan-Mitglieder, Kinder, die in unschuldige Spiele vertieft sind, Geflüchtete der benachbarten Inseln. Sie alle verbindet eine innere Zerrissenheit und das unausweichliche, sie umgebende Meer. Drei Nächte, drei Tage ist das Porträt eines tropischen Inselkollektivs zwischen Exzess und Verzweiflung. Ein schier atemloses, polyphones Werk, barock und radikal zeitgenössisch, »ein visionäres, unentbehrliches, opulentes Sittenbild des späten 20. Jahrhunderts« (Voir).
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September 2008Jungfrau
Roman
by Thomas Meinecke
Läßt sich erotische Annäherung auch im Sinn einer Asymptote vollziehen? Lothar erforscht das gemeinsame Werk des Theologen Hans Urs von Balthasar und seiner legendären Amica, der Ärztin und Mystikerin Adrienne von Speyr. Er glaubt sich einem unglaublichen Liebesdrama auf der Spur. Und Lothar selbst, ein von den Theaterwissenschaften zur katholischen Theologie sowie zu sexueller Enthaltsamkeit konvertierter Student, gerät zunehmend in Gewissenskonflikte mit seiner hoch und heilig gelobten Haltung: Das Charisma der Klavierspielerin Mary Lou stellt ihn vor Versuchung und Versagung. Wie in Tomboy entwickelt das Diskursnetz in Jungfrau ein burleskes Eigenleben. Hollywoods B-Film-Ikone Maria Montez sowie ihr Wiedergänger Mario Montez sind darin ebenso verstrickt wie Clemens Brentano, der jahrelang Visionen einer stigmatisierten Nonne protokollierte, Ronald Tavel, Begründer des Theatre of the Ridiculous, der Camp-Filmer Jack Smith oder die Jazzpianistin Jutta Hipp. Thomas Meinecke ist mit einem popistischen Zugang zum Katholischen gesegnet. In seinem neuen Roman begibt er sich auf extravagante Pfade des Glaubens: Polyphon geht es que(e)r durch die Jahrhunderte, campy und kinky.
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Literary FictionFoam
by Carlos Labbé
Foam is a long novel with a multitude of voices, which is also economical and metaphysical, about immigrants from different levels and origins in New York. It traverses from the years of presidents Obama and Trump until Black Lives Matter, the pandemic and the current attempts for reconstruction. Its reflexivity, eroticism, humor and hard action, framed in the musical structure of a Latin American “cantata”, bonds a profound memorial of the voices of missing people and survivors from the crisis of the last, hyper politicized, decade. This novel follows the stories of six characters that converge in a free concert during a crucial day in the Summer of 2021 Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The story bounces back and forth, rythmicall, from a Chinese systems analyst, to a Latina academic, to an activist reggaetonero, to a South American writer, to an indigineous chef, to an African American beach cleaner: the plethora of the American melting pot.
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FictionFebruary 2022Obra Maestra (Masterpiece)
by Juan Tallon
The story in this novel is utterly implausible – and yet it happened. One of the world’s leading museums, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, commissioned a piece from leading American sculptor Richard Serra to celebrate its inauguration in 1986. A sculpture weighing thirty-eight tons which one fine day… simply vanished into thin air. Nobody knew how it had disappeared, when it had happened, or who was responsible. A mixture of nonfiction novel and fictionalized reportage, combining the bizarre with the hallucinogenic, Masterpiece employs the pace of a thriller to reconstruct a case that poses some disturbing questions. How could something like this have happened? How does a copy become an original? What even is contemporary art? And what was the true fate of the famous, huge and immensely heavy steel sculpture that evaporated? Might it reappear one day? “I am especially amazed by the generosity of this polyphony. More than a stylisticaudacity, I see it as proof of great sensitivity. The author speaks masterfully of contemporaryart, addressing the relationship between the original and the copy and the collective dimension of a work. It also inspires a keen awareness of history. Even more impressive, it offers a scathing vision of our present, and more particularly our political present. It is admirable to have succeeded in turning a work as rectangular as Equal-Parallel / Guernica-Bengasi into a prism that refracts the world so powerfully”.Benjamin Burguete, editor at Le Bruit du Monde (France)
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The ArtsJune 2020Kincón
by Briante, Miguel
Kincón is the story of an obsession, a tale that was born in the early 1960s as a short story and that became, in the mid-1970s, a polyphonic, choral, bloody and vital novel. The story of Bentos Márquez Sesmeao, a real character of the town where the author was born, explodes in multiple, infinite stories that weave a web of points of view.
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FictionBEAUTIFUL MORNING BIRD
by Zoé Valdés
Arsenio, a Cuban exile close to the dictator Batista, and his friend Elbio who never left the Cuban countryside, meet again after many years. Arsenio is gathering testimonies to support his granddaughter’s thesis on Batista, who lingers in people’s memories as a criminal and a traitor. He spends some days with Elbio: through memories and conversations between them and other characters, the book sketches a nuanced and polyphonic portrait of Batista and breathes new life into the collective memory of Cuba.
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Geography & the EnvironmentApril 2020Cooking with Future
Recipes for a Good Climate
by Michaela Maria Müller
Climate activists, climate friendly cooks and eco-friendly community projects give us their best recipes and expore a very green way of cooking. A polyphonic, practical and novel cookbook for everybody who wants to protect the environment and still wants to eat good food. With almost 40 sustainable recipes for all seasons and regions, and many practical inspirations for environment friendly cooking by international voices such as ex New Yorker food columnist Mark Bittman, Guardian food columnist Anna Jones, star cook Anil Kumar or down-to-earth Zero Waste avantgarde Sophia Hoffmann from Berlin.
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FictionSeptember 2016Autour d'elle
by Sophie Bienvenu
In 1996, a sixteen-year-old teenager gives birth in secret to a boy in a Montreal hospital. Autour d’elle recounts twenty years in the lives of Florence Gaudreault and her biological son through the eyes of characters who have crossed their paths in one way or another and who are now telling their own version of the story. This polyphonic novel surveys the depths of the human heart and explores love in all its forms, be it lost love, all-powerful love, destructive love or rediscovered love.
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January 2014Fahlmann
Novel
by Christopher Ecker
A complex firework of polyphonic narrative art: for friends of Pynchon, Wallace and BolañoGeorg Fahlmann is under pressure. His studies, his marriage, the gruelling job in his uncle's funeral home and especially the women: It all becomes too much for him. He much prefers to write his historical crime novel about beetle researcher Carl Richard Bahlow on a paleontological expedition in German East Africa. But the longer Fahlmann works on his novel, the more fragile what he thought was reality until then becomes. Who actually invents Bahlow? And who invents Fahlmann? And anyway: who tells the whole book? And why does it seem that the entire staff of the novel has gathered in a run-down Parisian hotel whose rooms are constantly changing their position?Entertaining, comical, allusive, multi-layered and cryptic - Christopher Ecker's novel about top poets in animal costumes, scandalous incidents in the funeral business, beetle-eating entomologists, omnipotent organ grinders, beauties becoming transparent and a botanist who thinks he has the fate of the planet in his hands, makes the world a great narrative once again.
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EducationHow should I know?
Preservice Teachers' Images of Knowing (by Heart ) in Mathematics and Science
by Nolan, K. T.
Elementary preservice teachers’ school experiences of mathematics and science have shaped their images of knowing, including what counts as knowledge and what it means to know (in) mathematics and science. In this book, preservice teachers' voices challenge the hegemony of official everyday narratives relating to these images.The book is written as a parody of a physical science textbook on the topic of light, presenting a kaleidoscope of elementary preservice teachers’ narratives of knowing (in) mathematics and science. These narratives are tied together by the metaphorical thread of the properties of light, but also held apart by the tensions and contradictions with/in such a critical epistemological exploration. Through a postmodern lens, the only grand narrative that could be imag(in)ed for this text is one in which the personal lived experience narratives of the participants mingle and interweave to create a sort of kaleidoscope of narratives. With each turn of a kaleidoscope, light's reflection engenders new patterns and emergent designs. The narratives of this research text highlight patterns of exclusion, gendered messages, binary oppositions, and the particle nature and shadowy texture of knowing (in) mathematics and science. The presentation format of the book emphasizes the reflexive and polyphonic nature of the research design, illustrated through layers of spoken text with/in performative text with/in metaphorical text.The metaphor of a kaleidoscope is an empowering possibility for a critical narrative written to both engage and provoke the reader into imag(in)ing a critical journey toward possibilities for a different “knowing by heart” in mathematics and science and for appreciating lived experience narratives with/in teacher education.
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FictionNovember 2021Les grands espaces
by Annie Perreault
In the North, Anna sets out across Lake Baikal, a huge stretch of ice twenty-five million years old. When she collapses from fatigue, a man known as the Grizzly goes to her rescue and brings her to his den. The two loners gradually open up to each other, recounting their nomadic lives, loss of friends, and relationship with the great outdoors. In the West, fiery Eleonore dreams of surfing the waves, gaining some freedom, and having a torrid love affair with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. It’s the early sixties, and the girl’s wild spirit will soon be reined in by family obligations and later by the controversial practices of Dr. Walter Freeman. In the East, back in the nineties, a young Anna shares a compartment aboard the Trans-Siberian with Gaby, a globetrotter from California. The two girls soon form a friendship that will be rocky but life-changing. In the South, an invisible writer pieces together fragments from her life that have filtered into her novel. The artistic process she reveals is a graceful and subtle form of autofiction that evokes Deborah Levy’s writing. All these characters share a desire to follow their instincts and a need to reconcile their hunger for space and adventure with their roots and the ties that bind them. In this powerful road novel, Annie Perreault has created a fragmentary and polyphonic work, a tale of daring journeys across landscapes too vast to feel at home in. To see all the information about this title: https://editionsalto.com/droits-rights/les-grands-espaces/
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RUEGA POR NOSOTROS (Pray for us)
by Alfonso Carvajal
Description Ruega por nosotros is a contemporary tragedy. A kind of 21st century religious gay Romeo and Juliet. From the murder of two priests in the southwest of Bogotá, writer Alfonso Carvajal creates this heartbreaking fiction. Using the polyphonic narrative, the author recreates the motives that led Fathers René and Rómulo to this dramatic event that was quickly erased from the collective memory. A religious thriller? An exciting love pact? Martyrs or executioners of themselves? An atypical crime? Suicide by society? This piece of fiction fits into all these questions. Ruega por nosotros is a reflexión on an excluding society and a tribute to two unforgettable characters thanks to literature.Oneiric epiphanies, third and first person voices, interior monologues, are some of the stylistic resources that tension and build this powerful literary adventure. Sinopsis Ruega por nosotros es una tragedia contemporánea. Una especie de Romeo y Julieta gay religioso del siglo XXI. A partir del asesinato de dos sacerdotes al sur occidente de Bogotá el escritor Alfonso Carvajal crea esta desgarradora ficción. Acudiendo al relato polifónico el autor recrea los móviles que llevaron a los padres René y Rómulo a este dramático suceso que fue rápidamente borrado de la memoria colectiva. ¿Un thriller religioso? ¿Un apasionante pacto de amor? ¿Mártires o verdugos de sí mismos? ¿Un crimen atípico? ¿Suicidados por la sociedad? En todos estos interrogantes encaja esta pieza de ficción. Ruega por nosotros es una reflexión sobre una sociedad excluyente y un homenaje a dos personajes inolvidables gracias a la literatura. Epifanías oníricas, voces en tercera y primera persona, monólogos interiores, son algunos de los recursos estilísticos que tensionan y construyen esta poderosa aventura literaria.
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MusicDecember 2020Bach Perspectives, Volume 13
Bach Reworked
by Edited by Laura Buch
Scholars and performers have long noted J. S. Bach's abundant use of parody procedures, that is, the reworking of pre-existing material from his own compositions or from other sources. Laura Buch edits essays that reconsider parody, transcription, and adaptation in the sphere of the composer. The contributors delve into works of eighteenth-century composers from Bach himself to C. P. E. Bach and J. C. F. Fischer. But they also cast a wider net, investigating early twentieth century reworkings by Ferruccio Busoni and the ways Bach's music cross-pollinates with contemporary composer-performers John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Parliament-Funkadelic. The diverse contexts illuminate a broad range of techniques, from structural scaffolding and contrapuntal elaboration to integration with stylistic languages far removed from the Baroque. Contributors: Stephen A. Crist, Ellen Exner, Moira Leanne Hill, Erinn E. Knyt, and Markus Zepf
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July 2018A Gift of Presence: The Theology and Poetry of the Eucharist in Thomas Aquinas
The Theology and Poetry of the Eucharist in Thomas Aquinas
by Jan Heiner Tück, Scott D. Hefelfinger, Bruce D. Marshall
Jan-Heiner Tück presents a work that explores the sacramental theology, lived spirituality, and Eucharistic poetry of the Church’s doctor communis, St. Thomas Aquinas. Although Aquinas’ Eucharistic poetry has long occupied an important place in the Church’s liturgical prayer and her repertoire of sacred music, the depth of these poems remains hidden until one grasps the rich sacramental theology underlying it. Consequently, Tück first offers a detailed but approachable primer of Aquinas’ theology of the sacraments, before diving deeply into the Angelic Doctor’s theology and poetry of the Eucharist. The Scriptural accounts stand at the heart of the systematic framework developed by Aquinas, and thus significant attention is devoted to showing the harmony between the accounts of Christ’s passion and the detailed exposition of the Summa theologiae. Moreover, the Eucharistic controversies of the ninth and eleventh centuries provide the contrapuntal context in which Aquinas did his thinking, praying, and writing. Not surprisingly, therefore, the response he crafts to these controversies draws upon both speculative powers and contemplative prayer, brought together in the unity of Aquinas’ theology and spirituality. The net result is a twofold treasure for the Church: a careful systematic presentation of Eucharistic theology and the lived devotional expression of the same in the carefully constructed—and now much beloved—stanzas of Pange lingua gloriosi, Lauda Sion, Adoro te devote, etc. By revealing the lively interplay of the saint’s powerful speculative intellect and a heart steeped in love for the Eucharistic Lord, Tück offers a sophisticated exposition of Aquinas’ Eucharistic poetry and the roots it sinks into a wider theological framework. Finally, the contemporary significance and power of Aquinas’ work is drawn out, not only in the rarefied realm of intellectual inquiry but also in the everyday expanse of ordinary life.
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FictionApril 2011Acts of Terror and Contrition
a nuclear fable and eight stories
by Daniel Melnick
ACTS OF TERROR AND CONTRITION) is both a political novella about Israel and a literary thriller telling the unofficial story of Israeli responses to Saddam Hussein’s missile attacks during the 1990-1 Iraq War – and the possibility that his missiles might carry nuclear warheads “to burn Israel to the ground,” as Tarik Aziz said then. This “nuclear fable” presents the secret history of the Mossad Special Operations Chief’s covert threats to force world governments to face what is at stake should Iraq have launched a nuclear attack. Desperate and unyielding in the face of Saddam’s threat, the Chief, Arie Schneider, puts a renegade plan into place, even as he confronts the machinations of the deeply-divided Israeli government. Shadowing all this is the presence of the first Intifada, an Arab mother, and particularly her Islamist son, who plots his own act of terror. Enmeshed in the nuclear crisis, Arie must yet face his troubled wife, their two children, and above all his father, Rami, a holocaust survivor and retired diplomat. In opposition to the extremity of Arie’s plan, the old man summonses all his wisdom and his wily, struggling will to confront his son (in an echo of the biblical sacrifice of Isaac). Accompanying the novella are 8 STORIES OF THE EIGHTIES: In “Einstein’s Sorrow,” the first story after the novella, a wry secular Jewish owner of a New York toy company is visited one night in 1980 (the great physicist’s centennial year) by the spirit of the genius, and together the two Jews mourn the development of the nuclear bomb. In “Your Name is Hiroshima,” set in the mid-eighties, a young professor creates a haunted poem in response to the film “Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” as he faces the needs of wife, mentor, department chair, during a visit to campus by a famed Russian poet. The third and fourth stories are told by two elderly characters – an Armenian-American in “Taste of the Sun” and, in “Contrapuntal Piece,” the Greek widow of the eminent German-Jewish expatriate pianist from Hungry Generations; each character seeks the clarity to go on in the face of maddening infirmities and the incomprehension of others. In the fifth story “Before the Revolution,” a former political activist takes his family on a European vacation in 1984, and on an Italian train he faces his youthful double, a fiery student anarchist. The final three stories in Terror and Contrition chronicle the life of Joe Mubar, a Syrian-Italian American artist. “Triptych” tells his story over 30 years from his abused childhood, through his youthful wildness, to his struggle to find his balance in marriage. The second story – “Odalisque” – presents Joe, after divorce, in his sexual collision with a woman in the college town where he teaches art. “The Fall of the Berlin Wall” – the third story in the trilogy – portrays a last chance Mubar has to break the cycle of failed communication and to right himself as a father to his teen-aged son in the America of 1989.
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Zangezi
Supersaga
by Velimir Khlebnikov
On the occasion of the 135th anniversary of Velimir Khlebnikov, Boris Trofimov's creative workshop presents an art project: a bilingual edition of the super-story “Zangezi” in Russian and English (translated by Paul Schmidt). The Russian-speaking and English-speaking parts are united under one cover, just as the star language unites different worlds. Languages meet each other halfway and meet in the middle of the book, where there is a large typographic block: "Architecture from words", quoting Khlebnikov himself. This is work with the system of sounds of the prophet Zangezi, a canvas of music and rhythm, graphic transformations. "Architecture from words" is an attempt to visually comprehend supernatural by means of typography. "Zangezi" is the central work of Velimir Khlebnikov. This is indeed a super-story, as Khlebnikov himself defined it. That is, the totality, the focus of the poet's multiple aspirations, his reformatory searches in the field of speech. The name Zangezi goes back to Nietzsche's Zarathustra. At the same time, Zangezi is an alter ego of Khlebnikov himself. This work traces his long-term search. It is a search for meaning at various levels - from auditory to visual. The first creators of visual parallels to the super story were Pyotr Miturich and Vladimir Tatlin. Later Serafim Pavlovsky, Stepan Botiev searched for and found their own approaches to visualization of "Zangezi". And now a new approach was shown by young artists of Boris Trofimov's workshop. The polyphony of Khlebnikov's texts gives space for the entire creative group of the workshop. Fifteen participants, including executives, united by a common interest in Khlebnikov's ideas, put their impressions into a publication that becomes an extensive artistic expression in a universal visual language. The world of "Zangezi" is built at the intersection of languages, and the artists are building this intersection.
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Groups & group theorySeptember 2021The Body of the Group
Sexuality and Gender in Group Analysis
by Anderson, Daniel
The Body in the Group has been structured around the formation of a group analytic concept of sexuality, using the archaeology of Michel Foucault to move away from psychoanalytic theory, with its association to heteronormativity and pathology, on which group analysis has historically relied. The failure of group analysis to have its own theory of sexuality is, in fact, its greatest potential. It is a psychosocial theory that is able to contain failure in language and gaps in discourse, and, furthermore, can mobilise its creative potential in relation to the discourse of sexuality. Furthermore, using queer theory enables the failure of the term ‘homosexual’ by disrupting its association to heteronormativity and psychopathology that traditional psychoanalysis has emphasised. The potential of the group analytic matrix to disrupt and change discourse by conceiving of it using figurations and their associated political radicalism within language and discourse permits a radical conception of space and time. Bi-logic removes the potentially unhelpful competitive splits in power associated with the politics of sexuality and gender and, by doing so, enables multiple and contradictory positions of sexuality and gender to be held simultaneously. In addition, group analysis radically alters typical notions of ethics by being able to conceive of a psychosocial form of ethics. Likewise, queer theory raises an awareness for group analysis of the potential violence of its textual representation. Finally, analytic groups are ‘figurations in action’ when terms such as group polyphony, embodiment, discursive gaps, and norms (or no-norms) are mobilised alongside spatio-temporality and bi-logic. The group analytic literature so far has delimited sexuality and gender by over-reliance on psychoanalysis. Daniel Anderson, by utilising group analytic theory alongside the archaeology of Foucault and feminist, queer and education theory, has created an exciting and innovative way of working with sexuality in a group analysis setting.
