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Cross-Reference Archive · 1913–1996

Three Lives in the American Century

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File 001 · Executive Branch

Richard Nixon

1913 - 1994

The surveilled surveiller. A man undone by the very instruments of his control.

PowerThe Tape ErasureThe Body

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File 002 · Cultural Record

Traci Lords

1968 -

The minor who unmade her own archive. A body as both evidence and instrument of the law.

ErasureReinvention The LawThe Body

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File 003 · Mission Record

Shannon Lucid

1943 -

Longest resident. A body remade by weightlessness, returning to a world that continued without her.

DurationThe Body ReturnIsolation

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surveillance · the body · erasure · reinvention · the american century · duration · return

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THREE LIVES / AMERICAN CENTURY

Nixon Lords Lucid Convergence

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Documents cluster by subject. The centre holds convergence nodes - where all three lives intersect.

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