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Reena Spaulings

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    • Reena Spaulings is a novel born out of the fractured, fast-moving art and fashion worlds of early 2000s New York. Written collectively by the elusive Bernadette Corporation–an artist group known for blurring the lines between fashion, film, and theory–the book presents a shape-shifting portrait of a city and its mythologies through the character of Reena, a museum guard-turned-model whose identity fractures as she’s absorbed by the image-making machinery around her. Unfolding against the backdrop of post-9/11 Manhattan during a time of cultural flux, Reena moves fluidly through roles–celebrity, worker, icon–without ever settling into one. Written by multiple anonymous contributors, Reena Spaulings challenges traditional ideas of authorship and narrative structure. Its fragmented voice reflects the texture of a city saturated with images, where identity is always being performed, sold, or stolen. First published in 2005 by Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series, the book quickly became a cult artefact, notable not only for its content but for its refusal to conform to literary norms.


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