Hollerith punch-card advertisement: a giant eye surveying a city built of punch cards

How does impact become knowledge through the body?

The institution counts; the body knows. This research begins from the hit, the stamp, the step: impact as intelligence, feeling as method, imagination as survival. Choreonavigation and timedancing against the maps the counting machine drew for us.

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Feeling Impact book cover with a review quote

The Book

Feeling Impact

Life is not led by self-actualization or manifesting what we want, but by impact. The full study, available now on Amazon and in independent bookstores.

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Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft advertisement. Hollerith punch-card systems processed anthropological and eugenic data on Roma and Sinti, aiding their expropriation and genocide.

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