Sloth Books of Wisdom is a small publishing house established in the heat of the thesis, anno 2018. It’s Sloth Books’ great pleasure to announce its first publication: Sophie Schulte’s The Power of Transforming.

Sloth Books of Wisdom is a small publishing house established in the heat of the thesis, anno 2018. It’s Sloth Books’ great pleasure to announce its first publication: Sophie Schulte’s The Power of Transforming.

About a year ago Sophie Schulte fell in love with the act of transforming – the physical act of transforming into someone else. People have been transforming themselves for thousands of years for various reasons: it has been used to pursue power, for entertainment, and, since a century, in the visual arts. The Power of Transforming dives into the world of transformation by exploring identity, dress, and costume, to unravel what the freedom of transforming is, and why becoming seems to be equal to looking alike. It shows that when transforming, by assuming physical characteristics associated with the donned identity, we can subvert societal expectations of the other, making transformation a powerful medium to navigate through society.