{"id":4010,"date":"2012-02-22T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:42:10","slug":"a-history-of-infinity-and-some-fresh-catastrophes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2012\/02\/22\/a-history-of-infinity-and-some-fresh-catastrophes\/4010","title":{"rendered":"A History of Infinity and Some Fresh Catastrophes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block \" style=\"font-family: EB+Garamond;font-size: 25px;text-align: center\"><em><strong>A History of Infinity and Some Fresh Catastrophes:<\/strong><\/em><br><em><strong>On Raqs Media Collective&#8217;s The Capital of Accumulation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-ee095044 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"#read\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">Read Here<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/CMedina-Capital-of-Accumulation.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" id=\"read\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/CMedina-Capital-of-Accumulation.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:950px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>Text by Cuauht\u00e9moc Medina, eflux journal #38<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2010\/01\/18\/the-capital-of-accumulation\/2778\" style=\"border-radius:25px\">Also See: Capital of Accumulation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text by Cuauht\u00e9moc Medina, eflux journal #38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-texts","post_format-post-format-aside","missing-thumbnail"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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