Twenty-five stories · second edition
A Choir of Borrowed Nervous Systems
Twenty-five stories on the machinery of feeling: a building that rehearses a smile, a department that files grief, a choir practising under the floor.
- Materials
- masks, muscle, delay, social weather
- Provenance
- everyone you have ever imitated
- Note
- please do not touch your own face
- Extent
- 142 pages
- Edition
- second, 2026
- Published
- HERT
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The weather of this room
Three of forty
Behind the door
Somewhere between the sound that enters us and the voice that leaves, a stranger learns to answer to our name.
The maps under this room
This room stands on these 3 cartographies. Each is free to take.
Cartography of the Becoming SelfThe self is an evolving pattern of relations, neither a hidden object nor a freely chosen story.Take the map →The Embodied Narrative SelfThe stories we tell about ourselves are made possible, and limited, by the body.Take the map →Belief, Brain Chemistry & the Construction of Perceived RealityBelief can become a biological cause, but conviction alone cannot command neurotransmitters, erase trauma or move events.Take the map →