Machine Paralysis: A Different Kind of Mobility natural history the fertile act against the

the fertile act against the natural flow of forgetting

alongside himself

writings by African American autoworker and political activist James Boggs

Léo Favier set out in search of the former members of the collective

Machine Paralysis: A Different Kind of Mobility natural history the fertile act against theThe Mechanicos (meaning machinic in Greek) is a folk dance performed by the sponge divers of Kalymnos island, recording the crippling effects of decompression sickness and paralysis caused by increasing industrial exploitation. Today, a disproportionate number of persons with physical impairments and debilitating conditions remain largely invisible. The writing in this book points to different experiences of movement, time, and space: Whether through