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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Main Author: Jessica Smartt Gullion
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta 2019-02-01
Series:Art/Research International
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Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29404
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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.
ISSN:2371-3771