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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University of Alberta
2019-02-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-9e8954e63e414a3082391f446ef0b6e42022-12-21T23:59:53ZengUniversity of AlbertaArt/Research International2371-37712019-02-014110.18432/ari2940429404Pathology: A Diffractive Encounter of Machine/BodyJessica Smartt Gullion0Texas Woman's UniversityI’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.https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29404diffractionpoetic inquiryart journalingrhizomessurgeryendometriosis |
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