“Becoming Plural”

An introduction to the Autonomous Mechanics workshop

Elæ Moss
6 min readJul 9, 2021

[note: this text is the transcript for an IGTV video which can be watched via my channel there @thetroublewithbartleby — the workshop is currently open for registration and begins this coming Tuesday — find more information and sign up to join me here on Liminal Lab!]

Hi! I’m Elæ. I want to talk to you a little about my upcoming workshop, Autonomous Mechanics: Symptoms and Strategies of the Anarchist Body, which starts this coming Tuesday, July 13, via Liminal Lab. The class is online, and sliding scale, and you can join asynchronously or drop in for the sessions that work for your schedule! Find more details at the link in my bio.

Before I start, I want to give a quick visual description and let you know that there are automated captions and that the transcript of the text I’m speaking will be available on my Medium page, also accessible at the link in my bio.

I’ll say this again later, but please do be in touch with any questions! This is a program for all human persons of any background and experience, I promise :)

So! Ok: It’s friday afternoon here in Brooklyn NY, in Lenapehoking which is the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape. On camera is me, Elæ, a nonbinary, neuroqueer, chronically ill white person who is wearing a…

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Elæ Moss

is a multimodal creative researcher and social practitioner, curator, and educator. Designer @The Operating System. Faculty @ Pratt & Bennington [they/them]