A small journal for careful reading
Our subject is the relationship between personal promises and the conditions that make them possible.
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This domain previously hosted the Neoliberal Feminism Archive. We retain useful topic addresses and bibliographic routes, credit the work associated with that archive, and distinguish its historical identity from the current publication. We are not affiliated with Catherine Rottenberg, Goldsmiths or the former RNF project.
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