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AHMED, SARA

b. 1969

The Sweaty Concept (The Concept That Does Work)

Ahmed defines sweaty concepts as those forged in the friction of having to live a body. CoCA's Concepts are not sweaty; they aspire to be. The Provisional Collective performs the Concept by sitting at the Table, taking on hard problems with the Vow of Calm (§1.2.1). Calm is not the absence of sweat. It is the sweat absorbed by the institution before it reaches the meeting.

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