Pathology: A Diffractive Encounter of Machine/Body
I’ve been thinking about poems and about college as rhizomes (Deleuze and Guattari 1987), and as diffractive techniques (Barad 2007; Gullion 2018) for thinking about the social world. This project emerged as a way for me to understand my embodied experience of abdominal surgery. I began with the cre...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Alberta
2019-02-01
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Series: | Art/Research International |
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Online Access: | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29404 |
Summary: | I’ve been thinking about poems and about college as rhizomes (Deleuze and Guattari 1987), and as diffractive techniques (Barad 2007; Gullion 2018) for thinking about the social world. This project emerged as a way for me to understand my embodied experience of abdominal surgery. I began with the creation of an art journal, and then wrote a poem to accompany the images. I created the images and the text while thinking about my experience of undergoing surgery and diffracting that through Haraway’s (2016) ideas about cybernetics and machine bodies. |
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ISSN: | 2371-3771 |