Introduction: charting lines of flight : the parisian seamstress -- Adventures in a culture of thought : genealogies, narratives, process -- Mapping the archive : mnemonic and imaginary technologies of the self -- "From my work you will know my name" : materialising utopias -- Feeling the world : love, gender and agonistic politics -- Living and writing the revolution -- Creativity as process : writing the self, rewriting history -- Conclusion: reassembling radical practices -- Bibliography.