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      Love Me to Death: A Performative Ritual with Rats

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      Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021 (POM 2021)
      debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science
      September 14-17, 2021
      Rat, Interspecies, Performance, Ritual, Art, Death, Ecocide
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            September 2021
            September 2021
            : 172-177
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            [0001]Department of Art and Media

            Aalto University

            Helsinki, Finland
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            10.14236/ewic/POM2021.22
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            © Keski-Korsu. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021, Berlin, Germany

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            Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021
            POM 2021
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            Berlin, Germany
            September 14-17, 2021
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science
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            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Ritual,Interspecies,Performance,Art,Death,Ecocide,Rat

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