Significant Others
$41.75
- Paperback
- Release Date
20 November 2025
Summary
Winner of the 2024 Prototype Prize, Significant Others is a luminous and radical collection of hybrid texts exploring intimacy, language, and the porous boundaries between the human and the other-than-human.
The world is always speaking to you. Held together by a shared language, all beings are constantly, endlessly chatting away, saying something or other. What this language constitutes may vary, but all matter is alive, and it always has something to say.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913513825 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913513823 |
| Author: | frank R. jagoe |
| Publisher: | Prototype Publishing Ltd. |
| Imprint: | Prototype Publishing Ltd. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 145mm x 208mm |
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frank R. jagoe
frank r jagoe’s work is a reclamation of madness and monstrosity in opposition to the exclusionary category of the human. Often it explores communication with other-than-humans: in recognition that we are in community with each other; in acknowledgement of the personhood of other-than-human beings; and in order to displace a western hierarchy that claims humanity as the highest form of existence. They are particularly drawn to considering how madness and monstrosity are defined in relation to language usage, and in opposition to rationality, coherence, and ‘reason’. Highlighting forms of communication beyond words, beyond class-based language, beyond human forms of speech, feels an urgent imperative. Throughout they want to consider whose language is respected, whose language is engaged with, and believed, or even acknowledged.
Influenced by medieval lapidary texts, jagoe’s most recent focus has been finding kinship with rocks, and trying to think through how we can communicate across vastly different experiences of time. They are also currently trying to make friends with a group of crows in Victoria Park.
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