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Nathaniel Mackey and M. Lamar

Re-memberment in the “Republic of Nub”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2025

Maurya Wickstrom
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Abstract

Putting the work of the poet Nathaniel Mackey into correspondence with that of the singer, composer, performance and video artist M. Lamar offers a unique perspective on the complex relationship between automation and possession. Mackey’s Andoumboulou and Mu move in and through M. Lamar so that possession and automation are destabilized and replaced by molecular distintegrations of plantation worlds and the sonic apertures of a Black Afrofuturist Android.

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TDR , Volume 69 , Issue 3: Performance, Possession, and Automation Brown University TDR Consortium Issue , September 2025 , pp. 89 - 101
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of New York University Tisch School of the Arts

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